Citi Field

The Cubs lost 6-1 tonight on a late breakout of Mets offense, partly contributed by Ike Davis, making his major league debut as the Mets' top prospect.  27,000 fans saw the game in the cavernous Citi Field, a place I've been trying to figure out.  In the debut game last April on ESPN featuring the Padres at Mets, the Padres pulled off the shocker in a 6-5 win.  Then, the park looked big and cool with a lot of modern amenities, a true big city stadium.  However, as the season went on, the disappointment and negativity that surrounded the Mets' season seemed to drift and flow through the stadium.  The Mets only hit 95 home runs, easily the worst in baseball.  Citi Field is a big park.  Like really big.  Take it from an MLB The Show player who's played 16 games there and hasn't hit a home run to right field.  Shea Stadium had outfield walls eight feet high all around.  Not only are the dimensions longer in some areas at Citi, the fences are higher.  The huge left field wall has stopped more than a couple home run balls and the window wall area thing in right is a significant dropback.  The center field wall has been cut from 16 feet to 8 feet, but still more will need to be done to help out the hitters.  I just don't get the logic here; the Mets were a hitting team at the time they built the park and have had some good hitting teams before yet build this enormous pitchers' park.  Bad idea.  I think this year is the year the Mets transition into their new park finally and get comfortable with it, maybe like scoring some runs.  I hope to see a Mets winner upend the Phillies from the new park one day.  However, until more changes are made or the Mets get some serious power, Citi Field will continue to steal home runs and hold down the Mets offense that just two years ago was as explosive as any.