tickets will be available to anyone. just make sure you have your credit card handy. expect between 2 and 3x face value at the least. for the early games. and who knows for the special games (Opening Day, Yankees, Phillies). playoffs, all-star game in 2011? it’ll be expensive, but they will be out there.

made?

apparently we cant submit articles anymore, but here is a link to the SI cover story…a Santana piece by ex beat writer Lee Jenkins…The picture at the top of it makes me smile

May be I’m a little lost here, but when looking at those pictures it looks like there will be no foul ground in the deep corners in Citi…that sounds very odd and bizarre to me…anyone know how much foul ground will be left deep along the lines - where the stands take a sharp angle toward the field? Seems like none…that would really impact our outfielder’s chances of running down balls over there…

There will be 2500 standing room only tickets every game… These I believe will be for concourse and promenade viewing…

But it is not possible to ‘make up’ the number of lost seats…

The “Concourse” level is simply the area where all the vendors/bathrooms are at the top of the field level. Walking around it provides views of the field and you can walk around the whole stadium on that level, inlcuding to the outfield/bullpen areas. Is a cool feature common to many newer ballparks.

The “Promenade” level is actually the Upper deck. It is the concession area between the upper upper deck and the lower upper deck boxes. it too allows a view of the action.

You can get a better idea if you look on Mets.com and the renderings of people walking along the concession area with a view of the field (same views in the computer animation of the field narrated by G. Cohen).

This feature is common in the modern stadiums. Since moving to the West Coast, I have been to Mets games at Petco, Sfaeco and Bank One Ballpark/Chase field. They all have concession areas where you can see the field as you are walking to the beer or hot dog stand. AZ and Seattle are better than Petco’s and allow you to walk around the entire ballpark with a view of the field.

That is SUCH an improvement over places like Shea where there is concrete most of the way around, with just a few doors/entrances to the field boxes.

As for cost? I dunno. Most seats at Citi, I believe are on the field level. Certainly, you’d have access during BP even if have tix for uppder deck. At the neweer stadia I mentione,d they do not check for field level seats before letting you on the main concourse level….only when you head down toward the seats. As you know, at Shea, after BP, they keep the riffraff away from the field level concession area for fear of seat poachers.

One thing you’ll have to get used to ius, without the true “box steats” like at Shea, but rather just long rows of seats like at Citi….the usheres will wisely not allow you to head back to your seat from the concession area until there is a break in play (between half innings) as getting to you seat means a whole row of a dozen people potentially having to stand up (like getting into a seat mid row in a movie theater.

No way there were only eight sellouts all season. NO WAY. I can’t believe that.

The first image on the page is the current one. The other was from before they named it after Robinson.

The one without. If you’ve seen any of the pics of the inside of the rotunda you can see a cutout for the two escalators at the top level. There’s no room for an elevator between them.

Nothing can replace the roar of the crowd last year’s opening day after JR bobbled the ball. It was truly something. By far, the loudest cheering I ever heard in a stadium…the loudest cheering I ever heard was downtown at the Giants parade…

You can’t speculate about whether he will get over the wall at this time. He may develop new special powers.

How about through the wall — K.M. style.

I hope they’re tearing them down. Last season one of those shops was responsible for stealing both of my side-view mirrors.

In that situation, I foresee Lofton taking over full-time for the injured Alou and Chavez remaining in the backup role. That is where he is most effective.

Guess you missed a post or 2 last week. That’s exactly what it’s for. I personally don’t see the big deal, but 2 each his own.