A Review of Non-Baseball Things from the Home Opener at Citi Field

Went to the home opener a week ago today at Citi Field. The Mets played the Nationals and lost, if you don't remember.

I'm going to give my opinions though on a bunch of things other than the game itself.

Let's start with Box Frites. Spectacular as usual. The Garlic-Parmesan Frites (new, I think, it seems like it replaced the poutine-type thing they had last year) were fantastic. As you probably could have guessed, they were the classic frites, with a garlicky seasoning and a smattering of warm grated Parmesan cheese. Only gripe was that the bottom of the box was greasy. Other than that, pretty damn good.

I discovered the food area (which has a specific name that is escaping me) located directly in the right field corner on the field level during this game as well. Besides some hot food, which I passed on, considering my earlier frite-eating, there was a serious selection of unorthodox ballpark snackery. I got a Butterfinger ice cream pop and a bag of pizza-flavored Combos. The cashiers are located outside, making it probably the easiest place ever to steal from (though I never would). Ringing up my order was a bit of a difficulty for the staff that day, and they pretty much had to guess what my items were priced at. Hopefully that changes in the future.

The dunk tank was open, even though it was freezing. I still don't understand who would willingly get soaked at a baseball game and sit soaked for the rest of the game. Just seems lame to me.

The team store was PACKED. Also, too many "specialty counters". A counter just for hats, one just for customized jerseys, stop teasing me and making me think I have all these short lines I can wait on to pay (in reality, I had to wait on line about 15 minutes to pay for a shirt I bought).

It still pisses me off when security/ballboys/whoever pops beach balls as they pass through the crowd.


And that's all I've got for now. Any questions, feel free to ask in the comments.