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Bailout Stadium
Friday, December 05, 2008
Question of the Day:The taxpayers bailed out financial giant Citigroup. Is a renaming in order for Citi Field, the new Met's ballpark? Taxpayer Field? The People's Stadium? Post your nominations below.
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how about 'people's park?'
Peoples Park
Credit Default Swap Meet?
Collateralized Met's Obligation?
The Mets: Too Big to Fail! Stadium!
I would like to rename Citi Field to Paulson's Folly
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.
How about The Ballpark at Credit Default Swamp?
along the lines of 'the house that ruth built' (yes, i know it is the other NY team)...
perhaps 'the house that YOU built'
People's Park has a wonderful ring
Proletariat Field
How about METS SUCK stadium.
That sounds good. :)
Great idea!
Bailout Ballpark...anyone?
The $5,000 voucher idea is a great one! Why didn't someone i.e. the bright lights in government, think of that!
Citizen's Field.
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?"
or just back to Shea??
"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.
How about : "Rubin-Bloomberg-Geithner Park" or "Global Financial Gambling Field"
How about Citizen's Field?
how about:
"we, the schmuck taxpayers, have another useless field" Field?
I'm a Mets fan, but maybe Choker Field would be appropo.
Rubin's Folly
Rather than Citi - call it National field - the whole country's bailing them out.
How about "Shea Stadium"?
how about PAUPERS' FIELD
How about The People's Republic of Citi Field?
I second the comment about renaming it Shea Stadium.
If not that, how about the Polo Grounds?
Shea Stadium
"Global Financial Gambling Field"...gets my vote!!
Bailout Park has a very nice ring to it :)
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
Chez Mets
Potter's Field
Stop Terrorism Field
Genocide is Wrong Field
Gay Marriage is Pure and Proper Ball Park
New Socialism Park
Field of Nightmares
The Free Market
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???
How about Americas Park
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.
Sucky Team Field
Shame (Shea-m) Stadium
10 -- hilarious!!!!!
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)
Waste of Money 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
Paulsen's Park
Shea Stadium has a nice ring to it.
Lack of Security Stadium
Potter's Field.
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?!
citi field @ to big to let fail stadium
Financial Follies Field
How about CITY FIELD, with the "Y"
Queens field
HOW ABOUT (BEGGERS FIELD)
Stupidity Field. Greedy Field. Type A Personality Field. Pride Field.
But seriously, how about simply Mets Stadium?
Mudville
Mistake by the Van Wyck
SINO field - after the bank of china buys what's left of our economy.
If you build it, they will fold..........
How about Cit_y_ Field?
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.
I like The Ballpark @ Credit Default Swamp
City Council member James Oddo of Staten Island advocates naming it "Taxpayers Field".
I would support such a name change.
What about Citi-zen (citizen) Field
What is going to happen to the arena at Madison Square Garden that's named for Washington Mutual?
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
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
"Field Of Broken Dreams"
"Don't Panic Park"?
How about "OUR" park?
Flushing Pitching Stadium
"Meet the Debts"
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.
#7 Park
Shea II
CITY field - take the corporation out of the name without changing the name.
Overpriced Beer Field
Same name, just spell it differently: City Field.
But I like Debits Field too!
The Toilet Bowl (in Flushing)
23 dollar Hot Dog Pologrounds
Why don't they just change the 'i' to 'y,' which is the way i imagine it my head anyway. City Field.
Debits Field
rename the team: The NY DEBTS
Howzabout changing "Blue Smoke" to "Smoke and Mirrors" ?
We Suck 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"
Blank Field
I think the Field That Ruthless Built is reserved for the Yankees new stadium...
Field of Schemes?
Bailout Ballpark
Atlantic Yards Memorial Park
Client #9 Stadium
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.
Debts Field...at least it rhymes with Mets Field
field of schemes
Casey Stengel Stadium
SITY Field with the H
or Jackie Robinson Stadium.
Bankruptcy Park
Debtors' Prison
Taxpayers Fileld
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