According to a report that appeared in the NY Post yesterday, the Mets’ new $850 million stadium is starting to break down at an alarming rate.
Apparently, even though Citi Field is barely one season old, it has seen more than it’s fair share of breakdowns, leaks, and a myriad of other problems which recently included water damage to several luxury suites — including comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s.
Sources said other problems have turned Mets maintenance crews into the team’s real five-tool stars. Among the problems:
* A nonworking elevator last week that forced Mets owner Fred Wilpon to climb four flights to his office.
* An outfield section known as “Mo’s Zone” flooding in a rainstorm three months ago because drains were clogged. The backup was caused by 20 feet of pipe collapsing in the bullpen.
* A 4-by-6-foot illuminated sign falling in the field-level promenade during an off day.
* Electricity in the kitchen above the ticket booths near the rotunda shorting out. One outage caused the refrigerators to fail and water to leak into the ticket booths.
* A piece of concrete breaking off; it’s now sitting in a field crew’s office.
* Air conditioning and heating in the maintenance crew’s locker room that hasn’t worked since Day 1.
* Improperly installed electrical outlets. There is only one socket in the team’s laundry room, so a power strip is needed to plug in all the washing machines.
* A black granite capstone on the stadium’s ground-level facade falling off. Yesterday, Mets workers were spotted fixing the broken tile.
* Soaked seats in another luxury suite caused by a leaky ceiling during a rainy Mets-Yankees game. Crews carrying buckets, mops and towels paraded into the suite all night to stem the tide.
Dave Howard, the Mets’ executive vice president of business operations, acknowledged some of the problems, but called them minor and not unexpected.
That may be true, but I haven’t seen or heard any similar type reports coming from the new Yankee Stadium. Crumbling concrete would lead me to believe that this goes beyond a leaky faucet or clogged drain.
It sounds like the new stadium could use a stint on the DL and may need some off season surgery as well if you ask me.
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Tear it down lol
And the Wilpons can’t afford to fix it either thanks to the $200 mil Madoff stole from them
Only $200 mil? That’s the lowest version yet.
I’VE SEEN NO CREDITABLE REPORTS SHOWING WHAT AMOUNT THE WILPONS HANDED OVER FOR BERNIE’S INVESTMENT. UNFORTTYUNATLY, I BELIEVE, NONE OF THIS IS VIABLE & IS ONMLY AN EXCUSE TO PULL BACK ON THE REINS OF TEAM INVESTMENT AND RETURN TO THR 90s MEDICRITY. HOW MUCH MONEY WAS ACTUALLY WILPON & HOW MUCH REPRESENTED THE RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS OF ALL STERING EQUITIES’ EMPLOYEES? I DON’T KNOW. NO ONE HAS DERIVED AN ACTUAL FIGURE. GUESTIMATES & CONJECTURE IS ALL WE’RE GIVEN RE. STADIUM UPKEEP FUNDING SEE CITICORP’S NAMING $20M PER. FOR UPKEEP & MORTGAGE MAINTENANCE.
It’s unfortunate that nothing seems to be going the Mets way this season. They’re lucky that the sign didn’t fall during a game, otherwise that could’ve been a tragedy.
This is nothing new. In the 1970’s when “new” Yankee stadium was refurbished, the year it opened it had a bunch of problems, including cracking cement. Sadly though, as the Mets like to hype it, it was union job.
Now not only does the team stink, but we have to take our lives in our hands to go to the games. Serves Wilpon right that he had to climb 4 flights of stairs. Maybe that will start to open his eyes a bit about the nature of his organization. Too bad about the stadium, that doesn’t do much good for the David Wright commercials about union work.
WHAT A COMPLETE WASTE OF SPACE.
ALL NEW BUILDINGS REQUIRE A SHAKE OUT PERIOD.
FIND SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO WRITE ABOUT OUR ZIP IT.
You are a fool dogman! If it’s news, and it is, it should be reported. Get your pompous head out of your butt and hit the road. This story is being reported by all major Mets blogs and tri state sports papers. Great job as always Metsmerized for keeping Mets fans informed of all things going on in Mets nation.
WHAT A COMPLETE WASTE OF SPACE.
ALL NEW BUILDINGS REQUIRE A SHAKE OUT PERIOD.
FIND SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO WRITE ABOUT OR ZIP IT.
Must be a Yankee fan.
Ironicaly, it’s CitiField that ended up being the waste of space. All that taxpayer money and just a 4th place team to show for it.
The Mets were so blinded by their quest to build a memorial to the Dodgers, that they neglected to ensure they were getting what us taxpayers essentially paid for, not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax free bonds they got. What gets little mention was how many obstructed views the park has, so much so that they had to install $50 million dollars worth of plasmas in August so that people seated in those seats can watch on TV. It’s a beautiful park, even if took months of fan backlash until they added finally some Mets memorabilia two weeks ago.
I figured as much. Citi Corp was almost bankrupt when this place was being built. it only makes sense that they were skimping on quality for the new baseball park.
As I understand it, Citi only coughed up for the naming rights, not the construction itself. So Citi’s financial condition should have no bearing on the condition of the stadium.
Don’t worry.
Obama will fix all problems!!!
So, the Mets actually had to buy $50 million dollars worth of TV’s so that those fans actually in the park could see the game – on TV. This sums it all up, doesn’t it?
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Don’t forget to go to builditunion.com (I think that’s the site right?) to get your free citi field pin haha