With the 2008 season underway, much of the major construction work on the Mets’ new home at Citi Field has been completed for the stadium’s planned opening in 2009. The two giant scoreboard frames and lighting towers are erected, most of the exterior cladding has been added, and windows have been fitted into the Ebbets Field-themed main entrance.
In addition, the outfield walls already have been marked with measurements: 330 in the right field corner, 408 in center field, 379 in left-center field (the wall is 14-to-18 feet high) and 335 in the left field corner. Seats (with cupholders) have already been installed in many of the new stadium’s upper-deck sections.
The fate of Shea Stadium’s iconic apple of center field–the lovably scrappy fiberglass creation which rises from a plywood top hat when a Met hits a home run–is still the matter of some debate, though.
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If you go to a game at Shea and take in the Citi Field virtual tour (or whatever they call it), the guides are saying that the Apple, in some form, will exist, though it may not be the one we all know and love. For me, it’s enough to know that there will be some kind of Apple in the outfield.
i’m sure the new apple will somehow be ‘brought to us by’ budweiser or frito-lay…