I was at the Mets/Nats game tonight and it was a really fun time. To start off, it was a really new and interesting way of walking into the ballpark. The group I was with took the Subway to the game and from the Subway, you enter the ballpark from centerfield. I'm not sure if any other ballpark does that, but its a strange sight-line because it feels as if the ballpark is opening up towards the entrance.
Anyway, its a really nice sight, the stadium as anyone can imagine is beautiful. We were sitting up in section 402, one of two grandstand. $5 sections, and they still felt pretty close to game. The only downside to them, is you can't see the left fair line touch the pole and the wall from the section. Overall the stadium feels much, much larger than what it actually holds. There something like 41 or 42 thousand seats at the ballpark but by the way it is spaced out, it feels like there are a lot more seats. The upperdeck also has an interesting structure to it. There are two halves to it, and the upper half is reached by a staircase from the lower half. The part we were sitting at, upper deck, way down the leftfield line, has that same concourse style that Citi will have, where the the game can be seen from the concourse itself, which is also really nice.
Now to the game itself. Mets fans were out in full force tonight and it was fun for once to be with other Mets fans. A telling symbol of Mets fans at this point in time was that a few rows down from the group, there was a guy in a Delgado Jersey, but he had an X made out of duct tape going across the name and number.
There weren't any crazy baseball shirts tonight, but it is always fun to see some old player shirts. Tonight there Seaver, Carter, Dykstra and Wiggington shirts. (I myself was wearing an Alfozo jersey, which then led to a conversation with someone at the Subway about the 1999 Mets infield).
The subway on the ride back was packed, as they tell everyone to take it to the ballpark, so everyone has to leave by it. There were officials everywhere with megaphones yelling directions. Overall, it was a pretty comical scene, but one you would have to be at to find funny.
I hope to be at tonights game as well, Lets Go Mets!
