{"id":104,"date":"2009-05-07T21:46:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-05-08T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T13:39:56","slug":"mets_vs_phillies_may_7_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/mets_vs_phillies_may_7_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets vs. Phillies, May 7, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Mets vs. Phillies game, this time from Section 512<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

The Section 512 seats were much better than the Section 538 seats we had<\/a>, which you can see, about where the Chicago-Houston score is posted:<\/p>\n

\"Out<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you what, there’s a huge difference between the advertisements from last year at Shea and this year at Citi Field. Last year at Shea, you had Delta, Sharp, Chevy and Verizon:<\/p>\n

\"Mr.<\/p>\n

Then State Farm and of course the infamous AIG:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

This year, on the food media day before the stadium opened, on March 31, 2009, there was a sort of blank slate — not sure if they didn’t put the signs up yet or if (hrm!) they didn’t know who would buy signage:<\/p>\n

\"Citi<\/p>\n

So now that the stadium is up and running, note that AIG is notably absent, and in its place, an expanded “freecreditreport.com” presence:<\/p>\n

\"Left<\/p>\n

They’re the ones with that ad with the garage band in the basement; still not sure what the catch is, and why this is a profitable enterprise.<\/p>\n

As for the newcomers, there’s Bob’s Furniture:<\/p>\n

\"Left-Center<\/p>\n

spongetech.com (what is that exactly?) and superpages.com:<\/p>\n

\"Left<\/p>\n

The old sell-your-gold thing:<\/p>\n

\"Center<\/p>\n

Titan Motors:<\/p>\n

\"Scoreboard<\/p>\n

And the Arpielle Equipment Co.<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Scoreboard<\/p>\n

In short, the Citi Field ads look a lot like what you’d see at a minor league game.<\/p>\n

Arpielle Equipment Co. also sponsors the Mets’ version of the ubiquitous [blank] vs. [blank] race, that computer-generated doodad where digitalized items “race” each other and the results are randomly generated. I think it’s supposed to elicit a crowd response, but I don’t feel at all bad not rooting for a computer program. At Yankee Stadium last year (haven’t been there this year yet) the B, D and 4 trains “raced” each other to the stadium. The Phillies do a similar thing with SEPTA and its joke of a subway system. At Army football games at West Point<\/a>, they race tanks<\/a>. Spectators at other ballparks seem to enjoy the eternal ketchup-mustard-relish match. But the Arpielle [blank] vs. [blank] at Citi Field is just inexplicable — it’s a fork lift against a light tower. I’m not even kidding:<\/p>\n

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I guess that stimulus money is good for something . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Mets vs. Phillies game, this time from Section 512: The Section 512 seats were much better than the Section 538 seats we had, which you can see, about where the Chicago-Houston score is posted: I’ll tell you what, there’s a huge difference between the advertisements from last year at Shea and this year at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}