Is "Shitty Field" Already Falling Apart?

The Onion

With an extensive list of maintenance problems stemming from faulty wiring, falling signs, crumbling concrete and collapsing pipes, insiders are apparently referring to the Mets' new stadium as "Shitty Field." Even Jerry Seinfeld must be scratching his head and asking himself who the ad wizards are behind that one with word that Seinfeld's luxury suite was one of a handful of $500,000 boxes that had to have the walls knocked down because water damage created molding in them.

The Post has a laundry list of alleged problems at the first-year ballpark that include everything from a broken elevator which forced Fred Wilpon to walk up four flights to his office to clogged drainage causing flooding in the Mo Zone. One person connected to the ballpark tells them, "Yankee fans must have built this place."

With so many accusations of infrastructure problems, even "Scourge of the Yankees" Assemblyman Richard Brodsky is calling out the team for building fans a second-rate facility with so many tax breaks on the $850 million required to build Citi Field. Brodsky said, "Taxpayer money is going to build the stadiums for these wealthy private entities, and it's not clear that anyone is checking on anything."

The Mets insist that any problems they've encountered have been nothing short of routine maintenance for a brand new building. Executive VP Dave Howard tells the Post, "Any suggestion that Citi Field is less than an elite, world-class entertainment facility is flat-out inaccurate and unfounded." Met fans had little sympathy for any suffering of Seinfeld and the other elite ticketholders, one diehard saying, "You shouldn't be coming here to sit in a luxury box anyway. It just takes away from the game."

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By Billy Parker in News on September 7, 2009 4:40 PM

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pointsguy

Typical second rate Mets BS. Let me know when Madoff, I mean Wilpon, sells the team.

invisibleman

you'd rather give that money to charity?

or would you rather get a new complete entertainment system and surround sound and those chairs with the cup holders.

score.

Manitoba2

The only problem with a great entertainment center for home (for me at least) is that I like going to watch games at bars with other people there enjoying the games. Watching games at home is kind of depressing. That's just me, though.

Regardless, if you had $500K to drop on a luxury box for 1 season, you could build an insane movie theater in your living room for half of that and still have a quarter-mil to throw parties every day if you wanted and still have a fair amount to give away.

Manitoba2

I don't understand why so many people spend so much money going to these games anyway.

I love baseball - I'm a baseball fanatic in fact! But, the games are just too expensive to go to regularly, and going to games can be too much of a pain. I try to go to games 2-4 times a year, but generally, I have a much better time when I go to a bar with a huge projection screen. Even if I drink and eat the whole time, I spend a fraction of what I would at a game and have just as good of a time.

Even if I had the money for front-row seats or luxury boxes, I would much rather give that kind of money to charity. I understand why business buy expensive seats to entertain clients, but why individuals do it perplexes me.

felixthecat2

First Maddoff and now Organized Crime Construction Companies screwed us. Season is over. Damn.

Neil Epstein

I just feel bad for anyone who bought season tickets... What a waste.

NannyState

Just call it Shea Stadium and boom! no more bitching.

dadoc

Maybe the Buildings Dept could inspect & issue violations? Hah! The whole damned place (demo, carting, disposal, cement, portajohns, security etc.) was built thru government and union graft. Surprise! Just like MTA HQ, nothing but another boondoggle far more obnoxious than even the worst of the Tweed era. Wanna make a statement? Boycott both stadiums and merchandise for a few years. But then again, to many, baseball is so much more important than ethics.

non_sequitur

"Seinfeld's luxury suite was one of a handful of $500,000 boxes that had to have the walls knocked down because water damage created molding in them."

My god, you are an awful writer. Who is proofreading this?

The structure of this sentence is awful and adding "-ing" to a word doesn't make it a verb. "Molding" is a separate and distinct concept from "mold." Unless if you meant that Seinfeld's suite was deconstructed because of the decorative framing on the walls you're using the word incorrectly. Even then it is nonsensical because you don't have "molding" within walls, "molding" is on walls.

nyorker555

for all that it is worth, the wonky syntax and the pseudo word "molding" threw me off too.

Kojak

Labor Day must also be Anal retentive day.

Lighten the fuck up.

non_sequitur

How about this: If you're going to co-opt legitimate journalists (who are working on Labor Day and get no slack whatsoever) at least you can accurately plagiarize.

If you feel like you should get a break on Labor Day for your crappy writing, then don't write anything at all.

marcasm

A little Gothamist editing in action ........

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenchung/3229179671/

whitecastlerock

My gods you are an awful person-it's labor day. Cut the staff some slack. There will be syntax and grammar errors that you can dither yourself to tomorrow...

gothamguy

"You shouldn't be coming here to sit in a luxury box anyway. It just takes away from the game."

Great logic, because none of these problems will show up anywhere else in the park.