Keyspan Park Now No Name Park

A sad day for energy companies and minor league ball clubs alike: the Brooklyn Cyclones ballpark lost its name today. The Cyclones and National Grid, the company who has sponsored the fledgling ballpark for the past decade, ended their naming-rights agreement. The 7,500-seat Coney Island home of the Mets minor league affiliate will go without a name for the time being, until a new partner can be found. As the national economy has tanked, so too has the stadium-naming economy. According to Robert Boland, an NYU sports professor, part of the problem now is that the naming rights are worth around $100,000, and the Cyclones are "probably selling it for $750,000.” Hopefully the Cyclones will be able to find some silver lining out of this.

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By Ben Yakas in News on January 29, 2010 5:44 PM

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S.K.

Steeplechase, now and forever. But if that doesn't work, perhaps we can get a Russian tycoon to rename it the Kremlin on Coney.

Peter

Warriors

Gashouse Gorillas

Thunderbolt

Luna Park

All good stuff.

RevWaldo

Warriors Field - "Warriors! Come out to play-yay!" (You'd have to rename the team too of course. Totally worth it.)

RevWaldo

National Grid was all set to buy the rights but they wanted to rename the team the "Gashouse Gorillas", which was a dealbreaker for the owners. (Ya gotta admit it has a ring to it.)

ANGRYGOD11

WhaThaF**kYouLookinAt Field!

YourMother'sAFrigginWhore Field!

ThatMuchForAFreakinBeer?? Field!

standardshift

C'mon. The solution is obvious. FUHGEDABOUTIT FIELD! No corporate fee necessary.

Ed

I've Never called Keyspan Park, "Keyspan Park"... Let's ditch all this Naming right stuff and name the stadium it's real Name "Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani Stadium of Baseball studies" or Just "Giuliani Stadium". That's what I've been calling the place since 2000. Why? you may ask... Because of Rudy we have this beautiful stadium, and let's us Not forget Rudy and his cronies Leveled the "Thunderbolt" roller coaster, Killing three guard Dog's in the process. "I'll be damed to spend $38 million on my stadium just to have it look out on that Dilapidated piece of Garbage" Rudy quoted in 2000. See ya Next Summer!!