Many New Yorkers wanted the new Mets ballpark (the one replacing Shea Stadium) to be named after baseball great Jackie Robinson. CitiGroup offered to pay $20 million a year to name the stadium, and in November 2006, “CitiField” was announced.

New Yorkers—even those who like the design—immediately dubbed the place “ShittyField,” noting that it’s in “Flushing” Queens.


Random Thoughts
New York Mets sell naming rights to new stadium
CitiCorp won the rights, meaning the stadium will be called CitiField.

Already many fans are calling the not-even-built-facility ShittyField.

Gotta love New York.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 13th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

Village Voice
New Yorkers Get Zip From New Mets Park
By Neil deMause | November 13, 2006

The Mets revealed the city’s worst-kept secret today (hint: if you want to keep something from leaking out, try not to put it on a giant sign) with the announcement that when the team’s new stadium opens in 2009, it will be known as CitiField. Under the terms of the naming-rights agreement, Citigroup will hand over $20 million a year to team owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon in exchange for the naming rights to the new edifice plus cable ad time and other sundries, shattering the old record of $10 million a year paid by California blackout-mongers Reliant Energy for the rights to the Houston Texans’ stadium.

Even aside from gripes from Mets fans who’d been hopeful of honoring a local great like Gil Hodges—the stadium will instead feature a “Jackie Robinson Rotunda"—and worries about the stadium’s obvious new nickname, there’s another issue that’s been largely overlooked: Though the city of New York will own CitiField and put up about $200 million toward its construction, city taxpayers shouldn’t expect to see a dime of revenue from the big CitiPayday.

Live Journal blog
2006-11-11 18:26:00
you stupid mongorians!
the mets new stadium is going to be called citifield.

SHITTYFIELD?!!!!

dear god, what a stupid fucking idea.