Citi Field vs. New Yankee Stadium

[nymdan]

As requested.

Use this thread to debate about the two ballparks opening in New York in 2009.

[locke40]

Citi Bank Park is going to be hodge-podge and an ode to the Dodgers, and Yankee Stadium is going to be a cathedral and be home to many championships.

[OlympianX]

Citi Bank Park is going to be hodge-podge and an ode to the Dodgers, and Yankee Stadium is going to be a cathedral and be home to many championships.

Now lets try judging the stadiums and not the teams.

[Sean Ryan]

This should be fun. Who has the better main entrance.

[Ralf]

.. and Yankee Stadium is going to be a cathedral and be home to many championships.

More like a sterile hospital that could pass as US Cellular Field on the inside.

I love that the Yankees are moving into this new stadium. The whole thing has bad karma written all over it for them.

[Ralf]

This should be fun. Who has the better main entrance.

NYS doesn't have a "main entrance." They all look the same.

[locke40]

This thread was a very, very bad idea.

[nymdan]

A picture is worth a thousand words

The Yankee Stadium thread is also about 7 months older.

This thread was a very, very bad idea.

Agreed, I'm regretting it...

[Ralf]

The not-so-great hall looks like a hospital in all the computerized images.



(stadium page)

Paging Doctor Clemens. Paging Doctor Clemens.

[Lafferty Daniel]

NYS
Pros...freize, facade, gold lettering 'Yankee Stadium.' non-corporate name.

Cons...main grandstand, $1.3 billion, obstucted view due to restaurant, location, fails to capture pre-renovated YS.

Citi
Pros...facade covering rotunda, improvement over Shea, looks great from a distance (wideshot, aerial)

Cons...main grandstand, left field grandstand's alignment, facade down baselines, location, green seats, too much Dodgers.

Both of these are shaping up to be very nice ballparks. I can't wait to check them out in a year.

[Sean Ryan]

NYS
Cons...main grandstand, $1.3 billion, obstucted view due to restaurant, location, fails to capture pre-renovated YS.

Citi
Cons...main grandstand, left field grandstand's alignment, facade down baselines, location, green seats, too much Dodgers.

Locations? What's wrong with the Bronx and Queens?

Joking aside, the Yankees could never leave the South Bronx.

[Lafferty Daniel]

The not-so-great hall looks like a hospital in all the computerized images.



(stadium page)

Paging Doctor Clemens. Paging Doctor Clemens.

From this angle it looks a lot like the security hallway at LAX.

[Lafferty Daniel]

Locations? What's wrong with the Bronx and Queens?

I didn't mean to piss off anyone from Queens or the Bronx. I'm not saying they should play in Manhatten, I just wish Citi was on the river and NYS had some good bars and restaurants nearby. (last time I was there they didn't)

[runningshoes]

I don't think there's really much to debate here.

The new home of the Yankees looks like something you might store corpses in.

What do they call those things, mausoleums? :cap:

[Sean Ryan]

I didn't mean to piss off anyone from Queens or the Bronx. I'm not saying they should play in Manhatten, I just wish Citi was on the river and NYS had some good bars and restaurants nearby. (last time I was there they didn't)

There are plenty of bars around the Stadium. When did you go 1930s?