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I never buy anything at Yankee games, I'd rather spend the money in the community at the various eating establishments in the area.
I'd do the same. However, the new Stadium has new restaurants so that apparently "people coming from outside the City won't have to set foot into the neighborhood." (boooooooooooooo!)
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We didn't even need those two stadiums. Shea was a dump, but it could have been renovated for far less money. Same with Yankee stadium. It's a shame they aren't using such a historic ball field anymore. Wrigley is older and Chicago isn't throwing away money for a stadium that looks identical to it. When we're in such an economic crisis, these things can wait.
I'd do the same. However, the new Stadium has new restaurants so that apparently "people coming from outside the City won't have to set foot into the neighborhood." (boooooooooooooo!)
That's unfortunately true unless the middle class fan sees the prices and has no problem walking up 161 street past the standard bars, Stan's and Billy's.
With little more than a month to go to opening day, what's the buzz like in NYC over the opening of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field?
Myself and many others I'm sure, could really care less about the new stadiums. They were financed with money stolen from the citizens of New York. Overpaid, spoiled millionaires will be playing watched by other spoiled millionaires who can afford box seats that cost hundreds of dollars per game. Like others, I may watch occassionally from home but if I want to see real baseball in person, I'll go to a minor league or college game where the players are more passionate and actually run out ground balls to the infield!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We didn't even need those two stadiums. Shea was a dump, but it could have been renovated for far less money. Same with Yankee stadium. It's a shame they aren't using such a historic ball field anymore. Wrigley is older and Chicago isn't throwing away money for a stadium that looks identical to it. When we're in such an economic crisis, these things can wait.
Rachael, obviously you're right about how we want to keep Wrigley just as it is.
But here's something you and others might find surprising: with all the over-the-top retro-parks and the post-retros where every quirk in design is put in (or steroirds, I might add), our other ballpark, US Cellular Field (aka the new Comiskey), a much maligned place, actually starts looking better with its symmetrical layout and straight forward lines.
Rachael, obviously you're right about how we want to keep Wrigley just as it is.
But here's something you and others might find surprising: with all the over-the-top retro-parks and the post-retros where every quirk in design is put in (or steroirds, I might add), our other ballpark, US Cellular Field (aka the new Comiskey), a much maligned place, actually starts looking better with its symmetrical layout and straight forward lines.
I never understood that about Comiskey. I went there when I visited Chicago and thought it was a nice place to watch a game.
To answer your question, not very. I wanted to get one of those Mets ticket seven packs over the weekend, only to find that they don't have them anymore. Now you've gotta buy 15 tickets and it's nearly $300 a seat for the cheapest seats - no way I'm going spending that much, going to that many games, or bothering to sell tickets to games I can't make it to. The seven-pack was perfect. I'm convinced this is because of the demand for tickets at Citi Field.
Look, Shea was a dump. But I liked being able to get up one day and head over to the ballpark on a whim, buy the $15 cheap seats and then make my way down to the loge section (or as we called them at Shea, the "blue seats"). I go to baseball games to watch baseball, or else kick back a few beers with some friends. You don't need high-class food and merchandise stands, or "rotundas," to do that. Gimme the cheap seats and let me watch the game and drink a beer and I'm happy.
This is to say nothing of the patently absurd tax breaks and subsidies that both teams got from the city...I don't even feel like going into that one right now.
TLook, Shea was a dump. But I liked being able to get up one day and head over to the ballpark on a whim, buy the $15 cheap seats and then make my way down to the loge section (or as we called them at Shea, the "blue seats"). I
neon, what's ironic about it being a dump is that despite its cookie cutter/football-baseball/sterile mix and that Citi has the irregular lines of the classic, old ballparks, Shea's lack of pretension and equality and sense that you are there to watch a baseball game makes it, in many ways, more akin to Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds than the new park will be.
I go to baseball games to watch baseball, or else kick back a few beers with some friends. You don't need high-class food and merchandise stands, or "rotundas," to do that. Gimme the cheap seats and let me watch the game and drink a beer and I'm happy.
Always nice to make the acquaintance of another real baseball fan! I, too, go to games only to watch baseball. Everything else is irrelevant.
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