Reply With QuoteI really never did like the trend of major companies pasting their name on sports teams.
A plumbing company name would have been better. .......American Standard Field at Flushing....or the Rotorrooters park...
Mets' Shea goodbye
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11-11-2006, 10:34 AM #1Senior Member ELITE MEMBER
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Mets' Shea goodbye
New Queens park to be named CitiField after U.S. bank – sources
BY LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The Mets' new ballpark won't be named after any baseball heroes - you can bank on that.
It'll be called CitiField for Citigroup Inc., the biggest bank in the U.S., sources familiar with negotiations said yesterday.
Citigroup may be paying as much as $20 million a year for the advertising coup, according to Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp Ltd., a Chicago-based consulting firm.
That would make the deal the most expensive stadium-rights agreement ever, topping Reliant Energy Inc.'s 32-year, $300 million pact with the National Football League's Houston Texans.
The team plans to unveil the name at a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday.
The new ballpark, to be built next to Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, is to open for the 2009 season.
It'll have a grass playing field and seat about 45,000 people. Its facade will remind some fans of Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers' home before the team left for Los Angeles after the 1957 season.
The push to raise Citigroup's profile is part of Chief Executive Officer Charles Prince's plan to boost flagging revenue growth.
Citigroup was the lead underwriter when the Mets sold $613million in bonds earlier this year to help finance stadium construction.
The CitiField moniker is likely to disappoint fans who tossed out other ideas on the unofficial Megsblog.com, including that the stadium be named after legendary ballplayer Jackie Robinson or at least MetLife.
Kathy Shea Anfuso, daughter of the late William Shea, the lawyer who played a key role in bringing National League ball back to New York after the Giants and Dodgers skipped out, had told the Daily News she was sorry to see her dad's name retired.
But she said she understood and trusted Mets management to "do the right thing." With Bloomberg News Service and Paul D. Colford
Originally published on November 11, 2006
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Yea I hate going to "Fed-Ex Field" to watch games. RFK was a great name for a great stadium.
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I thought so too, seeing the name of new francises named after a Coporate company didn't bother as much as seeing the Redskins stadium named FedEx....there was so much history.
Originally Posted by goandykid
The Yankees will not change their name, it will remain Yankee Stadium.
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Is next year the last year for the current Yankee Stadium? I'll probly drive up jsut to experience it once before it goes down. Any cheap ticket hook-ups Min0, Funk? Originally Posted by min0 lee
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I think '08 will be the last year, cheap seats?!?
Hah! I wish.
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cheap*er hookups? Originally Posted by min0 lee
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11-14-2006, 05:06 PM #10Registered User
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Wow that place looks pretty damn nice.
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That actually might be worth taking a trip to go see.
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I'll keep you in mind. Originally Posted by goandykid
cheap*er hookups?
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The old place is a dump, it's rated real low. Originally Posted by Goodfella9783
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I definitly want to go see it, I do wish they would have used a little bit of the Polo grounds in it Originally Posted by I Are Baboon
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