Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Shaping Up Sub-Prime
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No, not that sub-prime, the Mets' sub-prime.
Sub-Prime Field.
What the Mets laughingly refer to as Citi Field.
Citi Field Starting to Look Like a Real BallparkIt is still called Citi Field, by the way. Even though Citigroup, which in 2006 agreed to pay the Mets $400 million over 20 years for naming rights and signage, needed a government bailout worth billions, its senior VP of global community relations, Eric Eve, and the Mets’ chief operating officer, Jeff Wilpon [the owner's son], said Tuesday there are no plans to change the name of the new stadium.
Here's my favorite part:Wilpon added that he wasn’t concerned about any public backlash regarding the organization’s relationship with Citigroup.
Fat chance, Jeffie boy!
Not when you need to be Mayor Wallet (above), or to mortgage your house to buy tickets for a family of four. Unfortunately, Citibank isn't alone in not giving out mortgages or loans to anybody these days. "Four tickets down the first base line, please," just isn't going to unthaw that ol' credit freeze. Tough luck all around, bub.
So, let's see, you can't afford the seats and spiffy whizzbangs in the Wilpon family's new Sub-Prime Field tribute to Daddy Wilpon's beloved, departed Brooklyn Dodgers. And you also can't get a loan to afford those high prices in Sub-Prime.
Hmmm. Here's an upbeat vision, looking down the road of a long season: Once the citizens of Gotham turn on New York City's red-tie Corporati (who've both messed up the finances of this country AND grabbed all the decent seats at Shea and now at Sub-Prime), drag them into the streets, and then beat them soundly with clubs, a growing number of seats should go begging at Sub-Prime Field. Then, the wise Wilpons will drop their prices to merely exorbitant levels to lure folks back into their park. Perhaps entree would then be possible, even without a loan perhaps.
Then, all New Yorkers might actually see what the new park looks like.
Until then, that's why God created television.
And why Wilpon, no fool he, started his own channel.
posted by Gotham 11:51 AM
2 Comments:
Hey, somebody's got to pay for K-Rod. Ha!
By 
Kiko Jones, at
December 10, 2008 10:32 AM
Too true!
But does that mean, that when Citicorp finally goes belly up, that K-Rod's contract goes belly up as well?
It would be nice to then offer the lad a working person's paycheck.
By Gotham, at
December 11, 2008 5:13 PM
