newsday.com - 11/26/2008
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So what will that new stadium in Flushing be called next year, anyway? How about John Q. Taxpayer Field? Or Joe Sixpack Park, in honor of all the people paying for it who have no chance of ever sitting in one of its 40,000 high-priced seats? Bailout Ballpark, anyone? The one thing it should not ...
nypost.com - 11/22/2008
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nypost.com —
The Mets better not get too attached to
the name Citi Field. Team officials are said to...
be increasingly nervous as struggling Citigroup's stock continues to plummet - and potentially endangers their $20 million-a-year naming-rights deal for the...
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METS MAY PAY FOR CITI SLUMP
newsday.com - 11/24/2008
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newsday.com —
You might have missed the news because it
came on Friday, but Citigroup announced it was not...
planning to back out of the naming rights deal for the Mets' new stadium, Citi Field.
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Citi sheds workers, keeps Mets deal
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/26/2008
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cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com —
In 2006, Citigroup signed a 20-year, $400 million
contract to name the Mets’ new stadium in Queens...
Citi Field. As recently as last week, the troubled financial-services conglomerate said it had no intention of backing out of the deal for the new ...
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Call It Citi/Taxpayer Field, Two Councilmen Say - City ...
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Citi Storm Coming Mets Way
The Mets Police —
... Newsday: http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/ny-spwally265942390nov26,0,5323479.column That $20 million per year - which, by the way, the Mets don't seem all that eager ...
DID NOT DISAPPOINT.
metsgrrl.com —
... next year.
I know that someone’s going to say “Well, people are going to pay it, they don’t have to be creative,” but I don’t think that’s true. I believe they will lose money. And the loss of goodwill cannot be quantified.
I am on a deadline so I will have to table this discussion now. More over the holiday break.
p.s. TBF finds that he is in agreement with Wallace Matthews for the first and only time in his life, with this article.
All last season, they used scare tactics on their partial-plan ...
Citi vs. City: Who is the Bigger Villain?
Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest —
... Just a few days ago, sanctimonous members of the media (aka Wallace Matthews) decided to carve up Citigroup, Fred Wilpon, and the New York Mets for an early Thanksgiving meal. Today, Daily News reporters Juan Gonzalez and Greg Smith ...
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Newsday.com - Mets 11/26/2008
Two New York City Council members say that Citigroup should
show its thanks for a federal bailout by sharing the naming rights to the new Mets ballpark in Queens.
Mets to accelerate free-agent talks —
Major League Baseball News 11/26/2008
The Mets' patient approach to the free-agent market is likely to accelerate next week, the third week of the shopping season. The club has continued preliminary discussions with the agents representing the players it seeks to acquire, notably closers ...
Citi Storm Coming NY Mets' Way —
Bleacher Report - MLB 11/26/2008
Hey Mets, I warned you Monday to get out in front of this one. Return the $20M for the first year (take it on the back end) and make some "noble" statement about jobs and the economy and the holidays ...
