With an extensive list of maintenance problems stemming from faulty wiring, falling signs, crumbling concrete and collapsing pipes, insiders are apparently referring to the Mets' new stadium as "Shitty Field." Even Jerry Seinfeld must be scratching his head and asking himself who the ad wizards are behind that one with word that Seinfeld's luxury suite was one of a handful of $500,000 boxes that had to have the walls knocked down because water damage created molding in them.
The Post has a laundry list of alleged problems at the first-year ballpark that include everything from a broken elevator which forced Fred Wilpon to walk up four flights to his office to clogged drainage causing flooding in the Mo Zone. One person connected to the ballpark tells them, "Yankee fans must have built this place."
With so many accusations of infrastructure problems, even "Scourge of the Yankees" Assemblyman Richard Brodsky is calling out the team for building fans a second-rate facility with so many tax breaks on the $850 million required to build Citi Field. Brodsky said, "Taxpayer money is going to build the stadiums for these wealthy private entities, and it's not clear that anyone is checking on anything."
The Mets insist that any problems they've encountered have been nothing short of routine maintenance for a brand new building. Executive VP Dave Howard tells the Post, "Any suggestion that Citi Field is less than an elite, world-class entertainment facility is flat-out inaccurate and unfounded." Met fans had little sympathy for any suffering of Seinfeld and the other elite ticketholders, one diehard saying, "You shouldn't be coming here to sit in a luxury box anyway. It just takes away from the game."
