Monday, July 21, 2008

THE OBLIGATORY CITIFIELD POST.

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Earlier in the season, TBF and I found ourselves at Shea with time to kill, so we got in line for the Citi Field preview center. I didn’t expect much - I mean, the finishes of the various suites aren’t going to impact me, now, are they - but I had hoped to learn something.

For the most part, my assessment was correct. (They should really offer two levels of tours - one for those who are seriously interested in suites or boxes, and one for people who just want to see the circus.) They started the tour by saying, “I’m sure some of you are season ticket holders or plan holders and have a lot of questions, and we’ll answer those questions later in the year, we can’t answer them now.” So I expected the tour to be largely irrelevant to TBF and myself.

What I didn’t expect was to walk out of there completely fucking devastated.

The most relevant (and also the most interesting) part of the tour is when you walk into a room that two rows of actual future Citi Field seats of different types and quality. They even (allegedly) replicate the future legroom. You then get to sit there and watch a pretty cool virtual reality presentation on the wall, where they can show you the view from just about every level at Citi Field.

And that was when it hit me.

It isn’t just that we’re going to end up in the last rows of the upper deck. It’s that every seat, from the far edge of the Mets’ dugout to the far edge of the visitor’s dugout, on every single level, will be a club seat.

Period.

So even our humble but enjoyable seats in the current mezzanine reserved, right up from third base, will be off-limits to us in Citi Field.