On the bottom of the picture is the Billy Jean King National Tennis Center. On the top is Shea stadium, home of the NY Mets and right next to it is the construction of the new Mets stadium, Citifield.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
An incredible picture of the new Citifield
Go Red Sox.
I can’t wait for US Open tennis Grand Slam later this year! Oh by the way, French Open tennis Grand Slam starts this coming week.
I’m not exactly sure why the Mets are building a new stadium with less seats than their existing one, Shea Stadium.
I believe the Mets are paying most of the cost too.
Go Red Sox? hey, i gots two words for yas — Bill Buckner!
Anyway….
Thanks for posting that pic of Shea/Citi Field (by the way, it’s two words, not one.)
Sentimentally I’m gonna miss Shea but to have a beautiful new stadium will be a treat, even if it is sadly corporately named (pet peeve o’ mine — those names are helping ruin America.)
Reason why it’ll be smaller is it’ll be more intimate compared to the spacious and not baseball-perfect Shea. Shea is (sort of) one of those cookie cutter stadiums from the 60’s that weren’t built specifically for baseball and they really had no charm. Less seats will be a good thing, in a way. Sometimes tougher to get a ticket when ya might really wanna go to a game, but it’ll be better!
Am lookin’ forward to Opening Day and since the Mets’ll be on ESPN again this Tuesday night, get to see the progress beyond the outfield wall.
it’s all about scarcity and the laws of supply-demand economics, my friend. Shea has 55,000 seats, but seriously, how often do they sell out 55,000 tickets? Maybe 5-6 games a year (Opening Day, the Yankees series, maybe a few others). However, even if they draw 48,000 fans, that still leaves 7,000 empty seats. Mets fans know that they can show up any day and buy tickets to the game. By reducing the number of seats to ~45,000, they create sell-out situations every night. As a result, fans will be more likely to buy tickets in advance (including season tickets), which will help drive revenues and create “scarcity” regarding Mets tickets. It will also allow the Mets to charge higher prices since demand will be higher.