Comments on: Citi Field? Feh.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:41:05 +0000

Steve: May we be preserved from such madness as you suggest.

As it is, that drug brand’s already all over toy racing cars in places as diverse as the HBC chains(the Bay and Zellers) and Wal-Mart from one end of Canada to the other.

Now how do we explain that to the youngsters?

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:38:24 +0000

When the Sens’ hockey facilities here in Ottawa changed names from “Palladium” to “Corel Centre”, I was all for it. “Palladium” seemed too generic by my lights, and Corel as it was then was very much seen as a “local people made REAL good” kind of company.

Now that the Bank of Nova Scotia’s paid for the privilege of calling it “Scotiabank Place”…ergh. I feel about as you do re: “Citi Field”.

Now, “Ebbets-Shea Field”?

What do you think of that?

By: steve Dranow

steve Dranow — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:52:32 +0000

Bob,
Hope my Yankee’s don’t resort to this corporate naming rights çráp. Wait, the new ballpark in the Bronx will be named “Viagra’s Yankee Stadium”

Steve

By: Jean Krevor

Jean Krevor — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:19:09 +0000

Hey Bob — I’m right with you on the “Citi Field” thing. It’ll always be Shea to me. I’m not big on the whole corporate naming thing on arenas and stadiums, anyway — big FEH there.

Corona VAC won’t know for a while if they’ve still got the Shea — I mean Citi Field — contract for EMS. I’m sure I’ll know when it’s decided. I have had a lot of fun working Shea EMS over the past few years — it would be nice to be paid for it, but it’s good that my volunteer corps gets paid on my behalf too. -JK