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To check out the latest photos of Citi Field, taken by Tom Kaminski in Chopper 880, click here.
Also, a reader of MetsBlog sent in the following image of the infield being put in, which is pretty exciting:
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Citi Field looks like it is going to be incredible!!!! How long until opening day?
It does look great. It’s still going to take a lot of getting used to when I watch a game with the Mets in their home whites playing without the blue padded walls in the background from Shea. Going to be an interesting adjustment.
It’ll be weird. I give it until the 3rd inning of opening day.
yes, it will be incredibly expensive
Awesome.
Off topic, but welcome back, “A Grand Central Station for Mets Information”! It sure beats the Geico graphics. No offense Matt.
Speaking of which, when will the banner be changed to reflect CitiField? Or are you staying with the Shea background for nostalgia?
Matt, you gotta keep Shea!
I imagine when the grapefruit league begins, Matt will do his usual graphics change to something spring training-ish. Then, opening day, something representing CitiField.
I figure, wait until there is a nice shot of Citi with the fans in it.
Seriously, the problem with that shea shot is that there is nobody in the seats!
What happened to the Geico graphic…did you lose the sponsorship?
The site looks much better this way anyway.
Have any of your partial season ticket holders heard from the Mets sales office yet? I thought they were going to start contacting us in November.
Have not been contacted yet. I called them yesterday and they said “be patient, we’re working on it”
I expect we’ll probably know what they want to do right after deposits are due for season tickets, so we’ll probably get info around Dec 1 – Dec 8
The guy on the phone said that they are planning on keeping in mind the fact that most people who have had Sunday plans for exmaple in that past would prefer to have mostly Sunday games next year, but he could not promise me that would be the setup
They also told me that there will be tiered pricing next year once again. Platinum – gold- silver -bronze- value
Thanks for the info. I’ve been out of town and was nervous they’d try and contact me while I was away.
there are no tiered pricing for season seats. they are a flat fee for every game. for example a $75 mid section 2nd deck seat in the outfield is $6075 a year.
I hope they’re happy making a few extra bucks at the expense of no foul ground in the outfield.
isn’t the field the exact same dimensions as at Shea?
nope..its actually a bit asymmetrical
That means better seats for us.
calm down with the extra bucks comment just be happy that we have a new stadium… but i guess there always has to be some negative comments towards the mets
There are people in this world who would complain if you handed them a million dollars. They’d find a way to bitch about the taxes they’d have to pay on the money you just game them.
One million dollars? I can’t survive on one million dollars! What are you trying to do, kill me?!
or the taxes you have to pay to build a corporate baseball stadium
I think you underestimate Heilman’s value as much as I underestimate Vasquez. 2005-2007, Heilman was very good, with no more than a 3.6 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP.
wrong post. sorry
It looks like they were doing backhoe doughnuts in the outfield. What on earth is going on in there?
At Shea in the link, I mean.
Great pics.
Doesn’t it seem like a questionable time of year to be installing sod? Seems like they missed the optimal timeframe by a couple months.
Although, I guess it wouldn’t have time to take if they waited until spring.
I agree…one hopes they know what they are doing. Dd I see those 880 WCBS chopper shots right? It looks like the new Skankee stadium has sod and the pitching rubber and plate, while they are still installing seats. CitiField, it seems, did it backwards (seats all in, sod laid in November.)
man, when I think about next season, I think the mets will still be playing at shea. it will take some time before we call citifield home. my last game at shea was on the sunday night game whe johan b3at the phillies. one of my best memories at shea, the intensity, the fights between phillies and mets fans and the pleasure of saying “lets go mets” in front of all the phillies fans as we exit the stadium.
yeah that game is the closest i’ll ever get to a playoff game at Shea
that was my last game at shea too.. and it was incredible.
I can’t see how the third and first base lines stay out of the stands before reaching the foul poles.
Check the animation on mets.com…..the lines are *very* close to the stands, but, um, not in the stands.
I was thinking the exact same thing…the first/third base lines look like they will go right into the stands…
that gray area isn’t seats, it’s where the warning track dirt is gonna go. It goes around the whole stadium. It looks like there’ll maybe be 3-5 feet of dirt in between the line and the stands…not much foul ground. I have a bad feeling this park isn’t gonna be half the pitchers park we’re all expecting.
Are those seats blue? I would be very happy if they scrapped those stupid green seats.
They are green…but a shade that looks sorta blue from a distance. You can see better detail pics on mets.com
I hope they put in thicker turf on the right side of the infield so Castillo and Delgado can get to more grounders.