After the conference today, I took the Q to the 7 to Citi Field to watch a make up rain out game from Monday. The timing worked perfectly as I was planning to go yesterday, but it was still pouring in The City and it finally cleared up here and gave us a great day outside. I figured no one would be at this game considering it was a) a make up game, b) in the afternoon, c) during the middle of the week and d) with two teams who are both out of playoff contention. Let's just say the correct answer was e) all of the above. There was absolutely no one there (check the image at the end of this post).

The stadium was absolutely amazing on the outside. When I walked up to the ticket booth and they told me the cheapest seat I could buy for a game that no one would be at was $15, I was a little taken back. Either way, I wasn't going to let my $2.25 in public transportation go to waste, so I bought the ticket and headed in. Two different times, I tried to cut into some good seats, and both times I was abruptly stopped by security reminding me that I couldn't read and need to go to the section that was actually printed on my ticket. After these unsuccessful attempts, I finally compiled and went up to my section, 525 on the Promenade. When I say it was my section, I literally mean it. For the first four innings, I was the only person there. With the lack of fans, it became extremely eerie to hear people on the other side of the field clapping. That shouldn't happen. Anywhere.

So Citi Field is losing points left and right (aside from the obvious that the Mets play there), but then it got even worse when I started to notice that planes are flying directly over the stadium every five minutes. And in both cases, directly over and five minutes, I'm not exaggerating on either. I'm not sure if it was because it was an afternoon game, but when the planes came right over the stadium, it was deafening, and I couldn't hear myself think about what pitch would be thrown next.



I then decided to rub away my nose bleed and go get some grub. Everyone tells me that Shake Shack is one of the best places to eat at Citi Field, and New York in general, so that was my first destination. It definitely lived up to the hype and the burger was quite tasty. So Citi Field was moving up in my book until I grabbed a slice of pizza as well, and it was just sitting under a heating lamp the entire day, and wasn't even close to the $6 that I paid for it (even at ballpark prices).

So with the above, the actual stadium was cool from the outside and really had a sweet walk around feature where you can stare at the field the entire time, but there were just a lot of little things that bugged me while I was there, aside from the obvious that the Mets are a rival of the Braves, and I shouldn't like anything about their stadium. The good news is that I crossed off my 11th MLB franchise stadium, so my list keeps getting shorter. The unfortunate news is that only about 20 other people at the game did the same thing. Seriously, there were no people there. Check out the image below, the Mets even spray painted "Thank You Fans" by home plate. They might as well just spray painted, "Thank you Brain", "Thank you Bill and Jane", "Thank you Mark", etc. I'm sure they would have had plenty of room.