Royal Blue Grass at Citi Field?

by Russ on Oct 31, 2010 3:17 PM EDT

With a new front office taking shape, issues important to Mets fans will be under greater scrutiny. Will we go over slot with a vengeance in the draft? Will Citi Field's dimensions be changed? Who will the next Mets manager be? These are all important questions, but are they anywhere near as important as pushing the bounds of science and installing genetically engineered royal blue grass in Citi Field?

Far, far away, in a land called Boise, Idaho, there is a place called Bronco Stadium. It is home to Boise State's football team. The playing field, sometimes called "Smurf Turf", is blue. This artificial turf has spawned legends. One is that flocks of fowl routinely mistake it for a body of water and fatally crash into the field, although this seems to be a myth. One thing is undeniable; It is blue.

Most baseball fans do not want artificial turf anywhere near a baseball game. Major League Baseball has seen its fare share of ballparks with the fake stuff a generation ago. Slowly natural grass has reclaimed its place in every MLB venue but one: Tampa Bay's Thunderdome Tropicana Field.

What about Citi Field? If modern science is able to genetically engineer royal blue grass, should the Mets adopt it? After all, 29 MLB ballparks have yellow painted foul poles, but the Mets have orange. Shouldn't we have grass to match?

Poll

Royal blue grass at Citi Field?

Yes, after its invented. Until then, lets stick with what we have.

81 votes

Yes, and smurf turf now. We'll switch to royal blue grass when it is invented.

50 votes

No. Grass was meant to be green, and baseball was meant to be played on grass.

121 votes

252 votes | Poll has closed

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That would be awesome!

by SFloridaMetsFan on Oct 31, 2010 4:14 PM EDT reply actions

As long as it isn't made by Monsanto.

by Eric Simon on Oct 31, 2010 5:28 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

I'd be down with them making it

as long as it’s created to treat Phillies and Yankees like pests.

May you be locked in a battle of wits against Jerry Manuel.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 31, 2010 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Genetically Engineered Bluegrass

The title of a lost Bela Fleck and the Flecktones album?

by anonymous on Oct 31, 2010 6:00 PM EDT reply actions

That would make Citifield look

incredibly ugly, not gonna lie

by METSMETSMETS on Oct 31, 2010 6:11 PM EDT reply actions

Hey...let's have blue walls and orange seats!!!!

Because I'm a Met fan but have no idea that Citi Field is the Mets' home unless everything is blue and orange.

/Matt Cerrone

Chamption of the R.A. Dickey Face contest and "Cromulent Photoshopper Extraordinaire" of Amazin' Avenue!

by Steve Schreiber on Oct 31, 2010 6:37 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Clearly you miss the point...

It would be a Dodger blue field.

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Oct 31, 2010 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs

New York City needs to turn into a top tier city....

By following the lead of other top tier places, like Idaho.

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Oct 31, 2010 7:38 PM EDT reply actions

There's some interesting precedent!

For a huge solo art show, Matthew Barney replaced all the carpeting at the Guggenheim with boise blue astro-turf. Among other notable things (like fathering a child with Bjork), he played football at Boise State.

by Pack Bringley on Nov 1, 2010 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions

cremaster of his domain

by Sam Page on Nov 1, 2010 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions

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by Pack Bringley on Nov 1, 2010 1:21 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

I'd like more blue and orange and the stadium. Whatever's good with me.

"I only wanted a few things out of life -- a wife, children, to play baseball and to hunt deer." - Turk Wendell

by Rey-O on Nov 1, 2010 2:33 AM EDT reply actions

Who doesnt remember the first time you ever walked into a Major League stadium

And I am sure you saw the green and thought it was the best looking grass in the whole world. It’s one thing to take the grass away and play on fake turf. Its just completely ridiculous to play baseball on blue grass.

Gas prices today are a lot like a pitcher's ERA. Anything under 3 is amazing, under 4 is pretty good and anything 5 and up is something you want to avoid.

by Bobby Baseball on Nov 1, 2010 3:50 PM EDT reply actions