Let’s check the scorecard. Friday: an uncomfortable, rain-shortened loss. Saturday: rainout. Sunday: rainout.
If there’s a choice and I get a vote, I say spend for a retractable roof for Citi Field over free agents to be Julio Urias, Aaron Nola or Matt Chapman. Or all three.After this weekend’s total washout of the eagerly awaited Braves versus Mets matchup, I’m willing to try anything.This weekend: a total waste.
At one point in our text exchange Sunday, he suggested an alternative to my retractable roof suggestion: “Let’s put small umbrellas on helmets.” Which I took to mean that a roof on Citi Field is even less tenable — at least to him at the moment. For those bad at math, the cost is about seven times that now. Forget inflation, which isn’t low, the bigger issues are many, including retrofitting the roof to fit the existing structure and fortifying the land, which is said to be soft.
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