| Description: | The lowdown on Citi Field and the new Yankee Stadium
NEW YORK Whenever a spectacular new baseball stadium opens, I always wonder what ballparks will be like 20 years in the future, when the owner threatens to move the team unless the city builds him a new stadium that is properly "state of the art."
We don't have a retractable infield or a selfmowing grass outfield. There are only 15 Starbucks stores in the Brahmin Velvet Rope Mezzanine and only three American Girl outlets in the upper decks. We don't have an antigravity champagne lounge. There is no heliport in the bullpen, no cruise ship terminal by the parking lot, no secret mountain cave compound. The individual replay video boards in each seat don't come with Dolby surround sound. started his career 20 years ago in Seattle's Kingdome, baseball's newest stadium was the modern version of Minnesota's Metrodome, which was entering its eighth season. Back then, stadiums were considered state of the art if they had a speedpitch |
