MLS Cup Playoffs - November 23 - Red Bulls (Home)
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the playoffs are the marquee event in every american sports league. to prioritize leagues cup scheduling over the playoffs is completely stupid. i don't HATE the idea of leagues cup, but I do hate what it does to the playoff scheduling. our season should end with the final played and decided before this international break.
it would also help to reduce the number of playoffs teams, so that less games and rounds need to be played.
The winterization of Citi Field, not the circus, is causing problems for this match...
I'm not to proud to admit I haven't the slightest idea what any of that means.
What exactly takes place while you're winterizing your stadium and what difference does it make that you have to cap attendance? Letting 35K people into the building pushes things back a couple of months?
What exactly takes place while you're winterizing your stadium and what difference does it make that you have to cap attendance? Letting 35K people into the building pushes things back a couple of months?
i think it has to do with closing off restrooms, food vendors, reducing the number of employees and areas to clean and prepare for winterization. by capping attendance and closing off specific sections, there is less to clean up. not sure why the club couldn't just say "no problem, we'll pay for it". maybe the mets wouldn't agree to it? they have other events coming too, so maybe that factors into it as well.
Winterizing means turning off the water, clearing water out of the pipes, stuff like that -- I don't know how long it takes or how much it costs, but you have to do that to make sure water doesn't freeze and burst all the pipes in the stadium. Usually once they've "winterized" a stadium, they won't host any more games there until the next season begins.
So either they already did that process after our last game, or they were planning on doing it and the team convinced them to turn everything back on so we could host one more game. Seems to be a really good job here by NYCFC and the Mets front offices.
winterizing the field has nothing to do with attendance though. if they paused the process to let us play, there's no reason to reduce attendance unless they were closing off sections to reduce employees and cleanup/maintenance.
He is referring to the stadium water pipes servicing restrooms, concessions, water fountains, possibly fire suppression are being winterized. My guess is that certain portions have already been winterized, hence the "pause" in the tweet. Building regulations likely have stipulations for restrooms and water and distance and all that and therefore, with part of the stadium already winterized, those portions of the stadium are not accessible.
what happens in nycfc and atlanta win. where does it get hosted? RBA?
Yankee Stadium should be available. Their next event after ND-Army is the Pinstripe Bowl, so I would think they can do a soccer game in between.
based on the reply it wont be after pinstripe bowl. that said, i dont know if they are willing to allow a game in between both their football games.
Pinstripe bowl is several weeks after ND-Army, so should not be a problem.
Also, if they are hosting two events that they are hoping to sell out, then they shouldn't be shutting down any part of the stadium until late December.
I would imagine if they are hosting an event the same day and have notice they're needed for another event in 7 days, they would have no issue doing it.
The thing is, we're dealing with a facility that in a sense is the size of a small city. It could take a month or more to do all that work. And it could have been contracted and scheduled months ago, meaning that the process is already underway and can't really be changed much. It's like if you had a kitchen renovation scheduled in your house for next week and then told them you're getting the carpets cleaned so can they come back a week later. Not gonna happen as everything's already been ordered and all the people doing the work have already been scheduled.
Bottom line is everyone might want to do it but even so it may not be possible. One of the (thankfully temporary) disadvantages of not having our own stadium.
Yes, this is true. I think people are underestimating the challenge of reopening the stadium after they thought it was closed for the winter. Definitely looking forward to this not being an issue anymore after 2026, because hosting postseason games is always a gigantic pain. It doesn't help that Yankee Stadium schedules so many non-baseball events in November and December.
