November 23, 2009

Mets add Mets content to Citi Field

The New York Mets sent out a press release over the weekend announcing that they're naming Citi Field's VIP entrances after former Mets greats, renaming the stadium's outfield footbridge "Shea Bridge," and otherwise adding more Mets-specific stuff (orange-and-blue flowers in planters!). This should please Mets fans who'd griped that the new stadium seemed to have more homages to the Brooklyn Dodgers than to the pre-2009 Mets, though as the blog Loge 13 wonders: "This is all great news but it is stunning that everyone else but the Mets realized this was a good idea long before Citi Field ever got built." One possibility: Mets execs may not have wanted to rename entrances for the likes of Casey Stengel and Gil Hodges before they'd seen if they could sell off naming rights to corporate sponsors first.