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Mets Pave Paradise, Put Up Soccer Pitch
While Chris Capuano and Jose Reyes stepped up in Milwaukee in the Mets' 2-1 win over the Brewers on Tuesday, the national soccer clubs of Ecuador and Greece as well as their corresponding supporters' groups invaded Citi Field for the ballpark's first-ever professional soccer match and the first pro...
Citi Field To Be Lit Up Blue For Autism Awareness
To help kick off Autism Awareness Month, Citi Field will be one of more than 300 buildings and landmarks around the world to "Light It Up Blue" on April 1st and 2nd. Autism Speaks' Light It Up Blue (LIUB) campaign serves to raise awareness of the ongoing fight against autism, which now afflicts 1...
Fun With Ballparks: The Stadium Shape Up
Click to embiggen. Since the spring semester started up last Tuesday, I've been pretty swamped with work. So, I thought I would make something simple and fun (read: not as time-consuming as those pesky interactive graphics) for this week. It's inspired by some of the great work Craig Robinson...
Jason Bay And Hitting At Citi Field
A happy new year to everyone, especially Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, who penned a column today called "New Mets regime ready for year of change", a ten-question Mets primer for 2011. There are plenty of reasonable concerns here, like whether Ike Davis is the Mets first baseman of the future, if Josh...
Citi Field Improvements, Via Jim Baumbach
Jim Baumbach of Newsday is at Citi Field, Tweeting pictures of various changes to Citi Field. Here is a stairwell wall, now painted orange: Baumbach says some stairwell walls are painted blue. This is a welcome upgrade to the formerly grey walls, which gave off an Alcatraz vibe. He also has a...
Mythbusters: Citi Field Kills Homeruns
This'll be a quick one. We don't actually know yet whether Citi Field will generally suppress homeruns, runs, hits, or inflate any or all of those things. Eighty-one games isn't enough to make any long-term assertions with any significant degree of certainty. Coming into the season we thought it...
Place Your Bids: The Citi Field Silent Auction
Before taking my seat in the Pepsi Porch for Friday night's Mets-Cubs game, I stopped by the game-used equipment silent auction, located at the top of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda escalators. The best items must have been won earlier this season, because these were some of the gems still available...
Amazin' Avenue Citi Fieldguide
Welcome to the Amazin' Avenue Citi Fieldguide, a one-stop spot for all the info you'll need before heading to Queens to take in a Metropolitans game. My aim is to make this a living document that will be updated and improved as required. Feel free use the comments to add suggestions, opinions,...
Citi Field vs Yankee Stadium III
Some swanky new overlays courtesy of Greg Rybarczyk at HitTracker. Yankee Stadium III is larger than Citi Field in just one small area of left-center; otherwise, Citi Field is bigger all-around, and dramatically so in rightfield and right-center.
Citi Field vs Citizens Bank Park
Last night's outburst notwithstanding, Citi Field has proven to be every bit the homerun graveyard we thought it might be. On the other hand, Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia continues to produce homeruns at an alarming rate. Park 2009 HR/G Citi Field 1.71 Citizen's Bank Park 3.43 So...
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