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View: The Grass is Down at Citi Field
By Matthew Cerrone - Nov 17, 2008 12:39 pm

The grass has been installed at Citi Field, according to these recent photos at WCBS, taken by Tom Kaminski in Chopper 880.

…that is a weird-looking outfield wall pattern, especially in right-center field, where it actually cuts in and then goes back out…

…someone better get Carlos Beltran and Ryan Church a GPS system, so they do not bang heads

thanks to Scott B for the link

35 Responses to “View: The Grass is Down at Citi Field”

  1. losmets57 says:

    Umm, that’s right0center, Matt.

  2. Number57 says:

    Beautiful. Opening day can’t come soon enough.

  3. Dear Opening Day,

    I. Can’t. Take. It. Anymore. Come. Now.

    Sincerely,
    The Big Stapler

  4. My Favorite Baseball Squadron says:

    Scott B? As in Scott Boras?

    He’s hyping up the dimensions and field at Citifield so they can charge even more for tickets prices!!!

  5. losmets57 says:

    I can’t wait ’til Wright hits a HR their. APRIL 13TH, BABY!

  6. ksuth says:

    I’m going to Opening Day no matter what the ticket price is…

  7. egnirc says:

    It looks like they did remove the Agee HR marker from Shea.

    • DjDeF says:

      That has been confirmed. Matt posted on this a few weeks ago I believe. It was either Matt or the guy at Uniwatchblog.com

      • egnirc says:

        Cool, It must have been a rare post I missed.
        All I remmber was the Mets PR guy saying it would cost too much to remove it.
        Thanks for letting me know.

  8. CitizenSnips says:

    That graphic is ridiculously hilarious, if only for its relation to this post.

  9. koosman3669 says:

    I know its an optical illusion, but it looks like both foul line go into the stands, which only indicates there is absolutely no foul ground whatsoever along the lines in the outfield. It will be a little bit more of a hitters park than Shea was.

    • FSMetFan says:

      not quite…the gaps are much deeper and the walls are much higher…hitting hrs to the gaps will not come easy

  10. the_other_matt says:

    What are the dimensions? is this going to be like Citizen’s park?

    • mouserdz says:

      mets.com has the dimensions

      • NYMETSFAN718 says:

        Left Field – 335
        Left Center – 379
        Center – 408
        Right Center – 383
        Right Field – 330

      • kidfromqueens says:

        The dimensions are comparable to Shea’s- we really won’t know what it will play like until next summer. A lot of it will depend on the wind, and in that area, we won’t know for sure how things will play out until the structure of Shea is completely gone and the actual summer weather patterns are in effect. It will almost certainly be more hitter friendly just becasue Shea was one of the most pitcher friendly parks in baseball, but it looks to me like the odds are it will be more of a neutral or slightly pro-pitcher park than a particularly hitter friendly one.

  11. Metshead1974 says:

    It seems like it’ll be a pitchers park, and hopefully so. New ballparks like Citizen’s Boink are a complete joke, like arena baseball.

  12. turk99 says:

    if you recall, in spring training they modified the wall to match this layout.

  13. Markiss87 says:

    I pretty sure its going to be more of a hitters park. If look at the outfield theres going to be seats out there that would block the wind so the ball will carry much better.

  14. MH says:

    Notice that the playing field at Citi does not lie along the same north/south/east/west axes (plural of axis) as Shea did. The wind patterns are going to be different from Shea apart from the presence of stands in the outfield and the relative lowness of the upper rim of the park . Then there’s the question of the sun and how it will affect fielding. The dimensions would seem to make it a fair park. It’ll be interesting.

  15. cgpublic says:

    Field of Fail.

    Let’s hope that’s what the rest of the NL East will experience when they visit, as opposed to the prone greeting recent Met teams have been offering.