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CITIzens Stadium

1) Shea Stadium
2) Fans' Field

How about "you take your life in your hands crossing a major highway with your family from parking field"

I like City Field. Not too expensive to change one letter--they can keep their logo's font if they must but wouldn't it be cooler in New Yorker?

Willits Greed (hey, it evokes a NY sports legend, Citibank's hoggishness, and geography)

How about 'W.C. Fields', as in Without Citibank

I like Citizen's Field the best, but I like City Field too. People's Park is already taken folks.

Graveyard of Capitalism Field

What about "Shady Stadium"? As in Shady Financing practices and Shea Stadium combined- From Noticing New York-

(We just posted a four part series relating to this focusing on the adjacent Willets Point.)http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/

EVEN Playing Field

Can't be Citizen's Park, since the Mets' biggest rival plays in Citizens Bank Park. Go Phils! And I hope the Royal Bank of Scotland (Citizens Bank owner) doesn't fail too!

When I lost my job the week before Thanksgiving, I called my mom and asked her if it would be ok if I excuse myself from Christmas gift-giving this year.

How about Bad Timing Park?

I have two suggestions. One, Shea Stadium, or two, Jackie Robinson Field.

Of course, neither the Shea, or the Robinson families have $400 million over 20 years to pay the Mets.

Maybe we should sell the naming rights to a more solvent company so we can help pay for this!

Save money by just adding "MELESS" to the existing signs="SHEAMELESS STADIUM".

People's Park would be great!

Sorry Peter I didn't see yours above!

It's a BASEBALL field. Name it after some important BASEBALL figure. How about an important NEW YORK baseball figure? How about an important New York AND national baseball figure, who, criminally, still has no major league park named after him?

Jackie Robinson Field.

SEETHY Field

I know that Brian has a family program, and this is a family blog.

But the obvious name is derived from the same that many of us have used for years to refer to the sponsoring bank ...

S***ty Field

EMPIRE STADIUM

Not Shea Statdium, but Che Stadium

STEM Feild METS!!

TARP Park

Eminent domain park

potter's field

Seriously, Jackie Robinson Stadium is the only appropriate name.

The People's Stadium

Team That Never Spends Money On Pitching and Then Always Chokes In Post Season But Spends Money On Meaningless Structures As A Folly Of Their Top Executives Who Don't Know Squat or Care About Baseball But Do Know How To Overcharge For Seats and Food Park

I call it the TRI LETTER BRIDGE

The House that NINA bought. "No Interest, No Accountability!"

No Prospects Park

CHE Stadium

Shea & Gould. A big huge law firm that failed. Only in New York could a ball field be named after a Park Avenue Lawyer!

(Milton Gould was Bill Shea's partner.)

INflated Salaries Baby Players Who Make No Effort Feild

Shame Stadium

Subprime Stadium?

Taxpayers Fileld

Bankruptcy Park

Debtors' Prison

or Jackie Robinson Stadium.

SITY Field with the H

Casey Stengel Stadium

field of schemes

Debts Field...at least it rhymes with Mets Field

Brian can you also bring to attention that AIG is sponsoring the biggest sport team in the world - Manchester United.
The AIG logo is the Manchester United Jerseys.
I think it is a 9 million pounds a year deal.

Client #9 Stadium

Atlantic Yards Memorial Park

Bailout Ballpark

Field of Schemes?

I think the Field That Ruthless Built is reserved for the Yankees new stadium...

Blank Field

Here's a dedication to post beneath the new name: "Formerly called Citifield, As Taxpayers and Fans, We had to change the name, 'Cause we got a real citi-deal"

We Suck Field

Howzabout changing "Blue Smoke" to "Smoke and Mirrors" ?

rename the team: The NY DEBTS

Debits Field

Why don't they just change the 'i' to 'y,' which is the way i imagine it my head anyway. City Field.

23 dollar Hot Dog Pologrounds

The Toilet Bowl (in Flushing)

Same name, just spell it differently: City Field.

But I like Debits Field too!

Overpriced Beer Field

CITY field - take the corporation out of the name without changing the name.

#7 Park
Shea II

How about something subtle, like City field. If we are paying for it with our taxes, I suppose it belongs to us. The City of NY.

"Meet the Debts"

Flushing Pitching Stadium

How about "OUR" park?

"Don't Panic Park"?

"Field Of Broken Dreams"

More topical hilarity here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/So-what-should-we-the-American-taxpayers-renam?urn=mlb,124351

Why.. leave it just to the Mets.. why not the Yankees too.. based on the questions around the finacing of th enew Yankee's Stadium.. I would like to suggest City Hall 2

What is going to happen to the arena at Madison Square Garden that's named for Washington Mutual?

What about Citi-zen (citizen) Field

City Council member James Oddo of Staten Island advocates naming it "Taxpayers Field".

I would support such a name change.

I like The Ballpark @ Credit Default Swamp

I love the Bob Murphy idea.

In fact, it was marvelous when the Mets would visit San Diego and Bob's partners followed his lead and refused to say the new name.

One problem with ALL of these corporate names is how often play by play announcers DO tend to say them ... clearly in an effort to kiss the behinds of the moneyed and influential corporate sponsors.

Of course the other obvious suggestion is Jackie Robinson Stadium.

How about Cit_y_ Field?

If you build it, they will fold..........

SINO field - after the bank of china buys what's left of our economy.

Mistake by the Van Wyck

Mudville

Stupidity Field. Greedy Field. Type A Personality Field. Pride Field.

But seriously, how about simply Mets Stadium?

HOW ABOUT (BEGGERS FIELD)

Queens field

How about CITY FIELD, with the "Y"

Financial Follies Field

citi field @ to big to let fail stadium

brian, why all the focus on the Mets?

why haven't we heard anyone clamoring to name the new Yankee Staidum TAX EXEMPT BONDS STADIUM?!

Potter's Field.

Lack of Security Stadium

Shea Stadium has a nice ring to it.

Paulsen's Park

I think we should call it "The smartest guys in the room Park" ala, the Enron movie. It seems we have not learned any lessons from the past.

-Yankee Fan

Waste of Money Park

i get confused. isn't this a loan (bailout.) if a loan is to be paid back why would we own the asset (the naming rights)

10 -- hilarious!!!!!

Shame (Shea-m) Stadium

Sucky Team Field

It should be called the Polo Grounds, following a generous contribution by Ralph Lauren's Polo brand. Of course, the Mets first played in the Polo Grounds, former home of the Giants.

How about Americas Park

RICH ....uh...PERSON...(had another word in mind) FIELD. Hey, the cost of a baseball seat (A CORPORATE LUXURY BOX for the ENTREPRENURS of our great society). How much again for a so called cheap seat in the SMALLER BALL-PARK for the few??? To watch overpaid b-ball players lose in September? Que???

The Free Market

Field of Nightmares

New Socialism Park

Stop Terrorism Field

Genocide is Wrong Field

Gay Marriage is Pure and Proper Ball Park

Potter's Field

Chez Mets

Team That Never Spends Money On Pitching and Then Always Chokes In Post Season But Spends Money On Meaningless Structures As A Folly Of Their Top Executives Who Don't Know Squat or Care About Baseball But Do Know How To Overcharge For Seats and Food Park

Bailout Park has a very nice ring to it :)

"Global Financial Gambling Field"...gets my vote!!

Shea Stadium

I second the comment about renaming it Shea Stadium.
If not that, how about the Polo Grounds?

How about The People's Republic of Citi Field?

how about PAUPERS' FIELD

How about "Shea Stadium"?

Rather than Citi - call it National field - the whole country's bailing them out.

Rubin's Folly

I'm a Mets fan, but maybe Choker Field would be appropo.

how about:
"we, the schmuck taxpayers, have another useless field" Field?

How about Citizen's Field?

How about : "Rubin-Bloomberg-Geithner Park" or "Global Financial Gambling Field"

"People's Park" sounds about right, since we shoulder all those tax incentives to attract stadium development to cities. We invested and our name should be on it!

Oh, and before I forget, rich people and companies living, working, and making profits in NYC must pay their FAIR SHARE of local taxes. You know, because we have to pay for roads, water, trains, and all those goodies that make business possible.

or just back to Shea??

How about: "New White Collar Mafia Field"

Or a Nice Name/Jingle combo:

"SeethI Field:" "Not Just your City or your Tax Dollars, but your Investment, Savings and 401K dollars at work! Are you seething now?"

Citizen's Field.

The $5,000 voucher idea is a great one! Why didn't someone i.e. the bright lights in government, think of that!

Great idea!
Bailout Ballpark...anyone?

How about METS SUCK stadium.

That sounds good. :)

Proletariat Field

People's Park has a wonderful ring

along the lines of 'the house that ruth built' (yes, i know it is the other NY team)...

perhaps 'the house that YOU built'

How about The Ballpark at Credit Default Swamp?

Bob Murphy Stadium

for two important reasons...

1) He was a beloved Mets announcer for most of their existence.

2) Jack Murphy stadium was named for his brother and the name was eventually changed to some corporate name and this deeply saddened Bob Murphy who even expressed these feelings on the air during a game once. This woould be a nice tribute a man loved and listened to by countless Mets fans for over 30 years.

I would like to rename Citi Field to Paulson's Folly

Credit Default Swap Meet?

Collateralized Met's Obligation?

The Mets: Too Big to Fail! Stadium!

Peoples Park

how about 'people's park?'