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November 26, 2008

It's your Citi!

Two New York City councilmembers from Staten Island showed off their sense of humor, or at least their sense of how to get their names into USA Today, yesterday by declaring that now that the federal government is bailing out Citigroup, the Mets' new stadium that the bank owns naming rights to should be renamed "Citi/Taxpayer Field." Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews chimes in with suggestions of "John Q. Taxpayer Field," "Joe Sixpack Park," or ... "Field of Schemes"? Hey, what the?!

Of course, given that the city government is already putting in more than $260 million toward the new stadium, nearly as much as the Mets themselves are after tax breaks and the like, a much simpler solution might be even better: "City Field."

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