I’ve been griping for a while about the new baseball palace in which the Mets will take residence beginning next season.  It’s not that I doubt the need for a new ballpark.  Shea Stadium is beyond old and antiquated and in dire need of replacement.  While it is the site of many of my fondest childhood memories and I will likely be sentimental at its passing, I know it’s time to go.

It’s not even any real concern I have as to whether I’ll still feel Citi Field is indeed a baseball palace once I make my first visit there.  I’m sure that it will be everything I could have wanted in a home for my Mets.   No, my gripe with Citi Field likes purely in its capacity to hold paying customers.  Shea Stadium is something of a behemoth relative to most baseball parks these days with the ability to hold 57,000 plus.   So it was something of a shock to learn that Citi Field would only hold 45,000 at max capacity and that 2,500 of that capacity was standing room only……standing room only????

My perspective changed a bit tonight.  More >

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