Comments on: Note: Maine and Perez Booed at MSG

By: Mets Fan on Wall St.

Mets Fan on Wall St. — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:43:46 +0000

True true. I was at a Knicks game a couple of weeks ago and they were getting blown out in the first half (although they somehow came back to win) and along with the general booing of the team and “Fire Isiah” chants they even booed someone participating in a half-time contest. The only thing that got cheers up to that point were the Knicks City Dancers.

As for the local venues, as long as I’m not sitting in an obstructed view seat (like some at Fenway) I’m there for the game. Both Shea and Yankee Stadiums are out-dated, not exactly the comfortable seats or with state-of-the-art sightlines, but even though I could have techically had a better “view” of games 1 & 7 of the 2006 NLCS in my living room versus mezz section 31 no way would I have missed out on a stadium filled with 50,000 plus fans chanting LGM or Jose! Jose! Jose!

Since we’re in NY I know I’m getting robbed for concessions and there’s no perceivable difference in the quality of the food at either Shea or Yankees stadium…as in they’re both very mediocre. The biggest difference between the two, and I hate to admit it, but being able to pre-game before Yankee games on River Ave. is more convenient than trying to avoid a citation for an open container in the Shea parking lot. Even if the bars are cheesy, loud and worst of all filled with Yankees fans it would be nice to at least have a similar set up in the surrounding neighborhood for Shea. However, the 7 train after games is virtually empty and it’s a lot easier to get on whereas the 4 train is maybe jammed packed before it even gets to Yankee Stadium.

The thing that annoys me though about Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden (despite the fact that I am a big Rangers fan) is that they say they’re the world’s most famous stadiums/arena. I suppose that maybe except for Fenway or Wrigley Field, nowhere else in America can challenge that claim but I guarantee that outside of the US there are plenty more world famous venues such as Old Trafford/Wembley/Anfield/Roland Garos/Santiago Bernabeu/Camp Nou/etc. I would have to say that the fans at a Real Madrid-Barcelona match make Yankees-Red Sox or Mets-Braves games look tame in comparison. At least baseball players don’t get pelted with objects thrown from the stands…unless of course you’re John Rocker.

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:17:22 +0000

yea, I went there a bunch when I was in college outside Philly. Now I live in DC, and for the past 2 years have gone to a bunch of games at RFK. Talk about a dump. I’m pretty excited about the Nats new stadium this year though.

By: tinathemetsgrl

tinathemetsgrl — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:11:34 +0000

Though seriously, back to this topic: the Knicks fan would probably boo ANYTHING right now, who can blame them?

By: tinathemetsgrl

tinathemetsgrl — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:10:55 +0000

hahaa, I always go to see the Mets at CBP because I live in that area – the Phillies fans are so obnxiously annoying, I can’t stand them. I even went there to see the Cubs and Marlins this season and ugh ~ can’t stand being around them!

I always try to be around a lot of Met fans, usually guys – if any of you ever go to a Mets game at CBP – let me know! lol

By: Rawjah Clemens Is In Jawgies Bawx

Rawjah Clemens Is In Jawgies Bawx — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:59:48 +0000

I beat off to the audio religiously.

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:53:22 +0000

I despise Philly (scroll up and check out my other post about it), but Citizens Bank is a great ballpark. For that matter, so is Lincoln Financial Field (home of the Eagles), although I’ve only been there for Temple Football, so I didn’t have 60,000 drunk and rowdy Eagles fans to ruin my experience. The first time I went to CBP, I got really depressed about Shea, because the Vet was one of the few ballparks that was demonstrably worse than Shea, and now it was replaced by this gorgeous new place. I love Shea, but it’s definitely time for a new stadium.

By: pcmetsfan07

pcmetsfan07 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:51:10 +0000

Nope…as a PC alum I can tell you he is no God Shamgodd

Haha

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:50:05 +0000

that’s partially because Madison Square Garden seats less than 20,000 people, and because basketball is an indoor winter sport that plays a schedule half as long as baseball. And I’d still contend that Giants tickets were as hard to come by as Knicks tickets, though that may be just because I never was able to get tickets to the Giants until my aunt married a season ticket holder (best decision anyone in my family ever made), but I was able to get Knicks tickets.

By: gomets6091

gomets6091 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:44:57 +0000

I hate this “Yankee Stadium has history” crap. That’s like saying that going to Jamestown and seeing the re-creation of the original settlement (which was built in the 1980′s) has history. Yankee Stadium was completely gutted in the 1970′s, and the stadium today would probably be unrecognizable to Lou Gehrig. Steinbrenner turned the most historic park in baseball into a glorified cookie-cutter stadium….but the worst part is that he somehow conned people into believing it was still the same place as where Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle played. Go try to find some pictures of pre-renovation Yankee Stadium and post-renovation, they look almost completely different (the only thing that’s the same is the general shape.) The new Yankee Stadium is actually going to look a lot more like the original than the dump in the Bronx right now.

By: Mike Vail

Mike Vail — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:40:10 +0000

And this is why it takes paying a premium to get free agents to play for the Mets. Who the hell wants to be booed when you go out in public.

You could go to Boston or chicago and play baseball and be treated like royalty.