RUSTY START FOR METS

New York Post ^ | January 12 2009 | IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON and RICH CALDER

[Mr_Moonlight]

They were going for an old-time feel - but not that old!

Spanking-new, $850 million Citi Field is already beginning to rust.

A Post reporter spotted brown water from a rusty beam creeping down the wall of the front entrance of Citi Field's main gate in Flushing, Queens, on 126th Street. The Mets are set to move there in April.

Rob Bedelis, a mechanical engineer who helped build the Milwaukee Brewers' Miller Park, said Citi Field shouldn't be rusting a little over two years after the start of construction.

"It's a sign of the quality of workmanship," he said. "If I were a fan, I wouldn't be too thrilled. This might be cosmetic and not structural, but fans are paying a lot of money for baseball tickets."

The contractor, Hunt-Bovis, didn't return phone messages.

A Met spokesman said, "We are aware of the rust [and] plan to take care of it. It is no concern."

[Batman11]

The fact that CitiBank can take tax payer dollars and then pay hundreds of millions to purchase the naming rights to a baseball stadium is absolutely criminal. If that grandstanding ahole Waxman wants to hold hearings, he should hold them about that!

[MediaMole]

The rust is just a little tradition brought over from Shea.

And anyone involved with the construction of Miller Park should not be pointing fingers and complaining about quality workmanship.

[gusopol3]

I thought it was “Rusty Starts for Mets” and was expecting a vintage article about “le grande Orange.”

[DainBramage]

I liked it when it was Rusty in left at the Ballpark in Arlington.

[capydick]

Rusty Staub to start for the Mets next season?

[gusopol3]

which Rusty was that? (NL fan here) #4 refers to Rusty Staub, and since you're probably too young to remember, that was the real Rusty.

[Man50D]

A Met spokesman said, "We are aware of the rust [and] plan to take care of it. It is no concern."

They must be asking Congress for a bailout.

[gusopol3]

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/mlb_player_locator_results.jsp

[Mr_Moonlight]

I thought it was “Rusty Starts for Mets” and was expecting a vintage article about “le grande Orange.”

Since nobody seems to be happy with the name CitiField, except of course the arrogant Mets and Citicorp, and since the fans preference of Jackie Robinson Field or Gil Hodges Field was scoffed at by Mets management ... perhaps now the fans can take this cue and start calling it Rusty Field (in honor of the Staub)

[dfwgator]

I figured Chico Escuela must have written a sequel to, "Bad Stuff 'Bout the Mets."

[Mr_Moonlight]

hahahahahaaa ... Baseiboll beeen berry berry goood to me ....

[DainBramage]

Rusty Greer!

[gusopol3]

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/individual_stats_player.jsp?c_id=mlb&playerID=115114

goodness, he was a heck of a player, too, but I’ll be honest, I never heard of him. I listen to a fair # of Phillies games, too. Thanks.

[gusopol3]

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