Stadium Discussion

[ferrarinycfc]

An investor just bought 8.63% of Orlando for $42.33 million. that values Orlando City at about $490 million.

Having a stadium would be one reason for the higher value. It shows how much more NYCFC could be worth, if a stadium comes to fruition.

 

[Gotham Gator]

Yankees were going to sell beer at the Stadium with player faces in the foam but MLB said No. but maybe NYCFC can do it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/979019949233623042

Leave it to the Yankees to find a way to make beer lines even longer.

 

[LionNYC]

Leave it to the Yankees to find a way to make beer lines even longer.

I wonder if the Yankees will take MLB to court over the decision. Hopefully, the pinstripes get a favorable Judge.

 

[Gotham Gator]

Interesting article. I should have remembered why they can’t do this. Current athletes can’t promote alcoholic beverages. Long time rule, that I recall from my childhood. That’s why those old Miller Lite ads always used the washed up old jocks and managers.

 

[Christopher Jee]

Interesting article. I should have remembered why they can’t do this. Current athletes can’t promote alcoholic beverages. Long time rule, that I recall from my childhood. That’s why those old Miller Lite ads always used the washed up old jocks and managers.

I thought beer was food, hence sellable in supermarkets.

 

[Ulrich]

I thought beer was food, hence sellable in supermarkets.

Whisky is medicine but you don’t find it sold at the doctor’s office.

 

[Kangaroo Jack]

Whisky is medicine but you don’t find it sold at the doctor’s office.

right, you have to go to the pharmacy

 

[Hobo]

right, you have to go to the pharmacy

 

[QuigrNYCFC]

That sounds like an interesting book. It gets crazy later on?

They actually tried to make it in Germany. It’s totally real.

 

[QuigrNYCFC]

If you're suggesting what I think you're suggesting... you're a genius! ... our eventual stadium will be shaped like a Pyramid and be made of all of our ash bricks/diamonds. What a perfect new tourist trap for NYC. We'll call it the pyramid scheme, or something catchy.

Its absurd, obviously.

 

[Christopher Jee]

My CFG jobs alert surfaced this posting for a "senior director of ticket sales" at NYCFC.

I don't know if this indicates a shift in the team's attitude toward attendance figures, but figured I'd share.

 

[LionNYC]

My CFG jobs alert surfaced this posting for a "senior director of ticket sales" at NYCFC.

I don't know if this indicates a shift in the team's attitude toward attendance figures, but figured I'd share.

Those always pop up from time to time. People leave the front office.

 

[SanBartG]

Those always pop up from time to time. People leave the front office.

Bad leadership will do that. I’m a STH, but the deficiencies in PR, Gov relations and operations are glaring.

 

[Gotham Gator]

The removable netting is only the netting that extends beyond the dugouts - so great for Champions and Legends 26 & up


The netting from dugout to dugout will not be removable, but will "draw up" like vertical blinds to enable autographs and player contact during pregame and batting practice.

So if you're Legends 26 and up or Champions, you should have no problem at all.

If you're Legends below 26, there is a chance you'll have an odd unobstructed window to look through.

Can you imagine paying $130 for champions seats behind the goal and having to look through 2 nets!

I don't think we've discussed the Yankee Stadium netting issue yet this season despite there already having been two home games. (Also, for some reason, this is the thread where we discussed it, even though it probably deserved its own thread, but this is the Stadium Thread, so why not.)

Did anyone sitting along the first or third base lines against LAG or ORL notice any netting or anything to support the netting? Did it make a difference?

There is an article in the NY Times in the wake of yesterday's home opener. It says that fans were generally okay with the netting, which was less of a distraction than they had thought. However, there are some new poles that support the netting, and these were upsetting the fans.

After one home game, it is too early to make a definitive judgment, and the sample size is small. But the consensus from fans during Tuesday’s home opener was that the extended netting is fine. But the poles that hold it up have to go.

“The poles are a nuisance,” said Jeremy Liebhoff of Franklin Lakes, N.J., who was seated in a lower-level seat down the third-base line behind the new netting. “They’re a lot more of an annoyance than the net.”

“The netting’s not bad, but the poles are a problem,” said Rick Lamparelli of Brookfield, Conn., who was sitting in the first row in short left field. “If somebody leans forward to my right, I can’t see ‘cause now I have the pole and the person. I probably won’t make a complaint, but I don’t like it.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/sports/baseball/yankees-stadium-netting.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/sports&action=click&contentCollection=sports&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

 

[Seth]

I don't think we've discussed the Yankee Stadium netting issue yet this season despite there already having been two home games. (Also, for some reason, this is the thread where we discussed it, even though it probably deserved its own thread, but this is the Stadium Thread, so why not.)

Did anyone sitting along the first or third base lines against LAG or ORL notice any netting or anything to support the netting? Did it make a difference?

There is an article in the NY Times in the wake of yesterday's home opener. It says that fans were generally okay with the netting, which was less of a distraction than they had thought. However, there are some new poles that support the netting, and these were upsetting the fans.

After one home game, it is too early to make a definitive judgment, and the sample size is small. But the consensus from fans during Tuesday’s home opener was that the extended netting is fine. But the poles that hold it up have to go.

“The poles are a nuisance,” said Jeremy Liebhoff of Franklin Lakes, N.J., who was seated in a lower-level seat down the third-base line behind the new netting. “They’re a lot more of an annoyance than the net.”

“The netting’s not bad, but the poles are a problem,” said Rick Lamparelli of Brookfield, Conn., who was sitting in the first row in short left field. “If somebody leans forward to my right, I can’t see ‘cause now I have the pole and the person. I probably won’t make a complaint, but I don’t like it.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/sports/baseball/yankees-stadium-netting.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/sports&action=click&contentCollection=sports&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

Was not a problem for me at all sitting up in 224. I can see the netting but it's pretty low, so not blocking anything for me.

 

[sbrylski]

I may have a novel idea that hasn't been mentioned in the last 638 pages: An augmented reality stadium. We stay at Yankee Stadium. But. Everyone gets VR glasses when they enter so when they sit at their seats and look around, it LOOKS like a real soccer stadium.

Etihad Virtual Stadium

 

[Jagmandeeep]

I may have a novel idea that hasn't been mentioned in the last 638 pages: An augmented reality stadium. We stay at Yankee Stadium. But. Everyone gets VR glasses when they enter so when they sit at their seats and look around, it LOOKS like a real soccer stadium.

Etihad Virtual Stadium

After seeing something very similar in the show Black Mirror, I hope it doesn't become a thing in my lifetime.

 

[Seth]

I may have a novel idea that hasn't been mentioned in the last 638 pages: An augmented reality stadium. We stay at Yankee Stadium. But. Everyone gets VR glasses when they enter so when they sit at their seats and look around, it LOOKS like a real soccer stadium.

Etihad Virtual Stadium

Not gonna fix the food though.

 

[Kjbert]

Not gonna fix the food though.

Heretic

 

[EganSoccerWords]

I don't think we've discussed the Yankee Stadium netting issue yet this season despite there already having been two home games. (Also, for some reason, this is the thread where we discussed it, even though it probably deserved its own thread, but this is the Stadium Thread, so why not.)

Did anyone sitting along the first or third base lines against LAG or ORL notice any netting or anything to support the netting? Did it make a difference?

There is an article in the NY Times in the wake of yesterday's home opener. It says that fans were generally okay with the netting, which was less of a distraction than they had thought. However, there are some new poles that support the netting, and these were upsetting the fans.

After one home game, it is too early to make a definitive judgment, and the sample size is small. But the consensus from fans during Tuesday’s home opener was that the extended netting is fine. But the poles that hold it up have to go.

“The poles are a nuisance,” said Jeremy Liebhoff of Franklin Lakes, N.J., who was seated in a lower-level seat down the third-base line behind the new netting. “They’re a lot more of an annoyance than the net.”

“The netting’s not bad, but the poles are a problem,” said Rick Lamparelli of Brookfield, Conn., who was sitting in the first row in short left field. “If somebody leans forward to my right, I can’t see ‘cause now I have the pole and the person. I probably won’t make a complaint, but I don’t like it.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/sports/baseball/yankees-stadium-netting.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/sports&action=click&contentCollection=sports&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

Did not notice anything out of the ordinary in 214A