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I took the following photos while touring Citi Field today:
…and, of course…
I will post the full gallery and hi-res images tomorrow.
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no apple?
thats the first thing you think of? lol
My reaction was “wow..wow…awesome…Shea who?”
Actually, my reactions were, in order:
1) Holy crap! That sure is a beautiful sight!
2) Dam*! They sure can put up a stadium pretty quickly.
3) I wonder how long it would take to build one in my back yard?
4) Wait… where’s the apple?
F the apple
For a site that talks about the apple all the time, I figured it was worth asking the question.
But the thread below about the bullpen truly is the more interesting one to follow. Is citifield a place where people can throw batteries at the opposing team’s bullpen? I need to know!
Better yet, can we throw batteries at our own bullpen? I need to know, if Aaron Heilman should remain a Met!
:P
da apple ( old one) WILL BE ENSHRINED WITHIN THE ROTUNDA – I GUESS THATS THE ONLY bone us mets fans will get to our mets past in the new ebbets field
Matt where is the City Skyline going to be placed?
What’s up with the green seats? I figured a stadium solely devoted to the Mets would have some Orange and Blue somewhere. It’s going to look ridiculous when the team is decked out in white uniforms with blue and orange accents and the stadium has green seats and white walls.
You’re not being completely serious … are you?
Don’t get me wrong, the stadium looks fantastic. I agree with Cerrone that it does look a little like Phillie only with big boy outfield dimensions, but it’s just odd that the team’s colors are nowhere to be found.
Of all the things to complain about … the green seats? LOL That was one of the worst things about Shea Stadium … all the different color seats. It looked terrible.
We’ll just have to get used to a state of the art stadium … with one color seats. haha
i agree in that i think they should be mets blue not green…but it does look beautiful…and the stadium isnt finished…there is going to be an apple and the outfield walls are not going to be white…remember they probably put some pading on them and why do that now but rather wait until after the winter months
if there are the seats have bodies in them you won’t know what color they are.
*if the seats have bodies in them you won’t know what color they are.
who says theres gonna be white walls? thats not gonna be the final color…especially with stadiums requiring a batters-eye.
And the seats don’t look that bad…and you won’t be able to see them when every one of them is filled!!
The fences are going to be blue… Those are the concrete walls and they have not been touched yet.
There not padding the walls?
Of course they are.
It’s to re-create the look of the olde tyme stadiums that had wooden green seats. All the new stadiums have those.
Lets be honest the orange seats were incredibly tacky looking. Remember we do not want to blind the pilots flying over the stadium with too much blue and orange.
Thought the green seats were an homage to the Giants
Looks Amazin
The first thing I think of is where the hell is the “foul territory?” It looks like the rail is right up against the foul line all the way down!
Any news where the away-team bullpen will be? Just like with the Phillies, I can see that being a joy for opposing teams dealing with our fans.
judging by the 3rd pic, looks like one pen will be right next to some seats.
And hopefully its the away team’s bullpen that has to deal with fans, not our own, for we all know how that could turn out.
The home and visitor bullpen will be in the right CF well back to back…
Located near the bridge in right center.
lol I don’t think they get a bullpen
The writing on top of the scoreboard might be what reminded Matt of CBP — heck, I think it might even say “Phillies.”
What the hell?
Is that…is that leg room?!
cant wait to go to a game. As-suming I( can afford tickets by then…
and yeh, I hope that wasn’t an optical illusion, but it looked like enough room to put your feet, and even have soneone get by without stepping in your lap!
Promenade Reserve IF seats for most games will be 15, 20 and 25 bucks…
And yes, us ST holders have done the math.
Most importantly, will sauerkraut be served on all levels?
Hey Matt, instead of having metsblog night out in a sportsbar, why don’t you pull some strings and get it in a luxury box?
I can dream, can’t I?
does anyone know why they designed it with those jagged outfield dimensions? personally i don’t see much “character” in having a couple spots that jut out or in. i’d much prefer a smooth, symmetrical wall.
No new ballparks have symmetry… Every place has quirks.
Matt great pics.
We are begging for hi-res pics at baseball-fever.
Seats at citi are hunter green.
Seats are green and seat hand bars are blue.
Depending on the sun the seats can be green or blue
Outfield walls will be mets blue
In terms of foul territory its similar to CBP in philly.
Will Shea be down by Opening day? Doesn’t look like it…
I heard the only diference between CBP and the Citi is that the Citi has a disco ball and dance floor at shortstop sponsored by French’s Mustard and that the First Aid Station has the new international sign for choking ( New York Muts emblem ) painted on it.
I think the stadium looks great.. i was upset about the seats being green but your right there “should be” no empty seats to see..I think the thing that upsets me is the fact that the dugouts are paints GREEN i mean comon lets get some mets blue in there somewhere..thats will look stupid mets in their white and blue uniforms with a green dugout..it wont even look like a METS STADIUM
Wow, i am excited about Citi Field :D the inside looks as nice as the outside.
at least to me it does…
wow that left field wall is much higher than i expected – could be tough to hit ‘em out to left. Right field i suppose depends if those winds matt mentioned really have a significant effect. It looks like the right field line is pretty short at 330 but it quickly falls back into a bit of an alcove with a high wall before shortening up again as it meet the bullpen which really juts out (probably easiest spot for non-foul-pole homeruns?) but it looks like it gets real deep real quickly after that – possibly reaching 400ft well before dead center which is 408. (i’m going off of the photos and video from matt as well as views from the mets.com interactive seating chart)
Oh, wow weird corners in the outfield: HOW QUIRKY!!!
Shea was a dump but at least it was unique.
It looks awesome, Shea wasa dump, the apple was ridiculous, and those orange setas were absolutely horrible.
Viva Citi!