Mets and Yankee fans enjoying the new Mets Citi Field recently included, from the left, Yankee fans Paul and Leah Exner and Mets fans Shirley and Ed Townsend.Mets & Yankee Fans Enjoy Citi Field
The headline reads Mets and Yankee Fans enjoy Citi Field, the newly opened (this year) $900 million home for the New York Mets .... and the headline indeed has a very special meaning.
This Mets and Yankee fan friendship started out quite simply because my grandson, 14-year-old Rodney "Taylor" Jester, a freshman at Tri-Valley Central High School (who just happens to be a strong Yankee fan) and his good friend, 14-year-old Andrew Exner, also a freshman at the same school and a staunch Yankee fan. Their friendship formed as the two have played Little League, modified high school baseball and summer and fall traveling team baseball with the ECTB league Catskill Mountain Renegades the past two years.
With traveling to all the games and sharing time together at the games and occasionally eating out together, a close friendship developed between my wife (Shirley) and I (two strong Mets fans) and Andrew's parents and sister, Paul, Leah and Ashley Exner (all staunch Yankee fans).
Leah suggested in late June that we all take in a Yankee game and see what the new Yankee stadium was all about so in July we visited the $1.5 billion facility. Much of the new stadium incorporates design elements from the old Yankee Stadium. My Mets fan hex was again on that night as C.C. Sabathia got hit pretty hard and Seattle beat the Yankees 8-4.
On our trip back to Sullivan County Leah suggested we take in a Mets game to see their new digs.
Citi Field indeed has newer looks and there is no resemblance to the old Shea Stadium. Having been to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as a youngster I could see that the Citi Field exterior facade is definitely reminiscent of the old Ebbets Field, home of the Dodgers for many years.
It was quickly very noticeable that Citi Field's spacious field dimensions make it a pitcher friendly park, something that Yankee Stadium is not. Outstanding features at Citi Field include the Jackie Robinson Rotundra, the Pepsi Porch in right field and the closeness of the stands to the playing field.
The five Yankee fans apparently could not get their hex working as the Mets behind John Maine recorded a win that certainly has not come easily with the Mets depleted lineup this year.
It's all well and good to have two new major league ball parks in the city but economics were definitely not part of the planning here as some $800 million was to be paid by city and state taxpayers.
We think that one stadium housing two major league ball teams with a retractable roof could have made a lot more sense and saved state and city taxpayers a lot of money.
Good luck to the Yankees in the playoffs and bring home a championship for New York.
The headline reads Mets and Yankee Fans enjoy Citi Field, the newly opened (this year) $900 million home for the New York Mets .... and the headline indeed has a very special meaning.
This Mets and Yankee fan friendship started out quite simply because my grandson, 14-year-old Rodney "Taylor" Jester, a freshman at Tri-Valley Central High School (who just happens to be a strong Yankee fan) and his good friend, 14-year-old Andrew Exner, also a freshman at the same school and a staunch Yankee fan. Their friendship formed as the two have played Little League, modified high school baseball and summer and fall traveling team baseball with the ECTB league Catskill Mountain Renegades the past two years.
With traveling to all the games and sharing time together at the games and occasionally eating out together, a close friendship developed between my wife (Shirley) and I (two strong Mets fans) and Andrew's parents and sister, Paul, Leah and Ashley Exner (all staunch Yankee fans).
Leah suggested in late June that we all take in a Yankee game and see what the new Yankee stadium was all about so in July we visited the $1.5 billion facility. Much of the new stadium incorporates design elements from the old Yankee Stadium. My Mets fan hex was again on that night as C.C. Sabathia got hit pretty hard and Seattle beat the Yankees 8-4.
On our trip back to Sullivan County Leah suggested we take in a Mets game to see their new digs.
Citi Field indeed has newer looks and there is no resemblance to the old Shea Stadium. Having been to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as a youngster I could see that the Citi Field exterior facade is definitely reminiscent of the old Ebbets Field, home of the Dodgers for many years.
It was quickly very noticeable that Citi Field's spacious field dimensions make it a pitcher friendly park, something that Yankee Stadium is not. Outstanding features at Citi Field include the Jackie Robinson Rotundra, the Pepsi Porch in right field and the closeness of the stands to the playing field.
The five Yankee fans apparently could not get their hex working as the Mets behind John Maine recorded a win that certainly has not come easily with the Mets depleted lineup this year.
It's all well and good to have two new major league ball parks in the city but economics were definitely not part of the planning here as some $800 million was to be paid by city and state taxpayers.
We think that one stadium housing two major league ball teams with a retractable roof could have made a lot more sense and saved state and city taxpayers a lot of money.
Good luck to the Yankees in the playoffs and bring home a championship for New York.
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