So what do you think, could this be a real issue or is this just an example of George King looking for something negative to say about the Yankees?At first blush, the batter's eye in center field -- which is the window of a restaurant -- appears to be a little low. And with seats above the windows and below a huge video screen, hitters might have trouble picking up pitches.
"I guess we will find out during the games," said Johnny Damon, who explained it wasn't a problem yesterday hitting against BP pitchers who weren't on the mound. "I hope we figure it out more than the other teams."
Hideki Matsui said, "It's OK, a little small."
"It's not like at Yankee Stadium, but it's still dark enough," Jorge Posada said.
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BREAKING NEWS - Sheffield signs with the Mets.
Also, reports are saying right now that the Giants have released Plaxico Burress. What an a-hole.
I can't wait to see Sheffield running around in circles trying to get the ball in rightfield.
Yep, its official. The Giants have released Plaxico. So long, pal.
Weather is clearing up...come on out sun!!!!
Not realy. It's pooring at my house.
I think they'll play tonight.
I thought about that batter's eye thing last week, but I sometimes get accused of being too negative about the new place so I kept quiet.
My opinion on the CF eye is that for a lot of years baseball allowed people to sit in center field seats with no protection for the batter and the players managed. If it gives pitchers a little unique edge in Yankee Stadium, nothing wrong with that. IMO, the fences in left-center and CF are a bit too close anyway. When YS was rebuilt in 1976 it was 430 in LCF and 417 in CF. I'm not necessarily saying it should go back to that, but in recent years it seems the hitters always get the breaks.
I have to admit.. It bothers me that the Mets have the better Stadium the Yankees.. Can we as Yankess fan be honest.. Lon was so concerned with making it look like the old Yankees stadium and fitting in as many seat as possible.. even though it less then the one across the street.. that he ignored a great deal of things..
A.. that restaurant in center field from the out side is ugly. it has ZERO charm.. its fucking blue with black glass.
B.. what's about the obstructions.. are you kidding me.. over a billion dollars, and we can't get that right?
C.. is it me, or does the dug out look smaller than other dugouts in some of the new ball parks.?
B.. why did the stadium on the inside have to look like the other one.. I thought the seventies refurbished one was ugly.. always did. but it was an upgrade because there wasn't that many new parks then.. so it was ok.
My opinion.. and I am a HUGE Yankee fan. San Fran gas a better park. Baltimore has.. Seattle.. Arizona.. and yes, looking at Citi field.. it has charm, its looks like Baseball as it should be. Don't get me wrong.. this new Stadium, has its points.. it does.. But shouldn't we have the best park in every single way.. I don't know, I waited forever for anew stadium, it wasn't what I thought was coming. Hope people comment.. love to read opinions.
Basil
The best park in every single way was just closed last September :(
Basil, I don't know if the other parks are really better, all I know is that YS is no longer unique.
I do agree with your 4th comment 100%.
'Charm' has been replaced with bells & whistles. Toys. Shiny things. But what do I know, maybe that's what younger fans like.
im only 17 and i would rather have the old stadium with the Towering Upper Deck and some remodeling rather than the shitty cf restaurant. being in the old stadium used to give me chills.
No, WE needed a new home. I just started seeing all these new parks.. and just thought the Yankees would build the outside like the first and GREAT stadium, but the inside would be grand, yet charming.. there was no reason to make the stadium blue and white.. Citi field is not Blue and orange.
They could have done so much more with the money they spent.. I don't mind a restaurant in CF. but you painted it blue.. with the black glass. it looks ghetto.. should be brick.. with the seating above.. I like that.. gives it that green monster feel with the seats on top. Like I said.. its not that they built a bad park.. its just that they missed a chance to do something special.. now, this is what it is. sorry to say, the mets did it right.. I HATE admitting that. kills me.
Basil
why would they want to make it like the green monster?
One World Series win in the new park and this will moot.
The Met's can't even design a freakin arm patch that looks classy so please spare me. I've been to almost every new park in the country and while some are nicer than others there all head and shoulders above what they replaced. You guy's are as bad as George King.
This is the home of the NY Yankee's. The winningest team in sports history. This owner has delivered 6 World Championships and a brand new stadium to be the home to OUR team for the next 50 years. It's not the building that matters it's the team and the organization. Doesn't matter what Citi Field looks like it's about the team that plays there and that team pales in comparison to your team.
Show some respect.
Thats your opinion.. we have to pay those prices for the tickets.. the stadium could have been better.
as for the guy above you.. about the green monster.. no one said build a green monster.. or like it.. I said the way the seats are above the restaurant reminds me of that.. I think thats cool.. but that the outside of it is ugly.. its fucking blue. They should have went with a whole new design for the inside, cause th eoutside is perfect.
Basil
The blue looks fantastic. It's a dark blue that matches the rest of the stadium. You want BRICK? Talk about out of place in the new stadium. This isn't Wrigley field, nor some faux-retro ballpark.
It is a retro building. Lonn Trost has said many times that they were trying to replicate the original.
However, they missed the mark in so many ways. The outside wall, the frieze, and the auxilary scoreboards do not make it Yankee Stadium. The blue and white of the late 60's "white wash" does not make it Yankee Stadium. What helped make Yankee Stadium special even through the lean years (mid 60s thru mid 70's and again early 80's thru the mid 90's) was the history and the showcasing of that history.
Every fan and player was reminded everytime they either looked on the field or later in Monument Park that the building had history and great tradition. The biggest failure of this new design was to hide their history and fail to showcase Monument Park as the focal point of the outfield. The focal point now is the restaurant. During the game, the plagues are seen through netting, like puting a vail over the face of a super model. I like the description of the black glass as "getto"; it's on point. They really achieved that "Pimp my Stadium" look.
While the stadium is spectacular in many ways and I've been there 3 times now, it's nothing special compared to all the other new and renovated ballparks I've been to over the past 15 years. The great hall is impressive but the concrete floor and all the concession stands make it look cheap. There's no class, no sense of entering a historic building (the banners are a start but it needs more - I've suggested life-size bronze statues of some of the yankee greats (like other stadiums have done) in place of all the consession stands. You want a sense of history when entering the home of the most historic team in baseball, not peddlers selling their cheap wares.
This is my 3rd Yankee Stadium. Over time, you get used to the new building. I can say that all the times I was in the 76 design, my thoughts would alway go back to the original building that I remeber from the early 60s. In my minds eye I would compare where a ball landed or how the outfield wall used to look, the scorboards. Over time I'll get used to the new building but until they fix the all the mistakes (including obstructed view seats where by the way, people were sitting in the seats behind the steel columns yesterday - so I gues the Yankees are selling those seats).
I just wish the media, especially on YES (who have never sat in anything but the best seats in the house in the last 25 years) will stop telling us how great the sight lines are, there not. Sit in the stands and unless you are in the $2500 or $350 seats between the bases, you may have problems. Also, wide concourses do you no good when lines for concession stands are so long that you only have 5 feet for everyone to walk through.
And finaly, to those who think you can buy a $5 ticket and just simply move to a better seat, be prepared to show your ticket stub when entering any section on the first 2 levels and the terrace seats in the third. If you try to sit in the grandstands, be prepared to get thrown out. The grandstands are basically sold out and there is no room for squatters. So if you have $5 ticket, be prepared to stand the whole game.
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