Friday morning applesauce: Mets supposedly in on Gio, probably can't afford to pay him anyway

you’re not missing much if you haven’t been to the new version. I was there in 2009 and it’s nice but Citi Field is just a lot nicer overall. The concourses were very cold, with a lot of concrete and bland colors and such. Also, the outfield was weird because there’s an entire section in the outfield where the bleachers are where you have to walk in this underground tunnel, so unless you have bleacher tickets, you can’t see the action as you walk around the entire stadium. Citi is much more cozy and intimate and the seats seem a lot closer to the field in general.

I saw a Met/Yankee game back in the old stadium in like 2002. I got tickets in quite literally the top far left corner of the right field upper deck (second row to the top). The Mets beat up on Mike Mussina and Mo Vaughn hit a bomb halfway up the upper deck. It was a weird game but the stadium was pretty sweet from what I saw, although I also wish I got to walk around a little more.

I was surprised that I was able to muster up such ambivalence toward baseball, and I actually like to follow the Rays. It wasn’t anything special and I had very little interest in walking around the place, even though I would still explore Shea after dozens and dozens of Mets games.

I imagine it would be a horrible place.