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By thehound98 (anonymous) | Posted August 11, 2010 at 23:26:22

Way to go Brian. You have hit the very large nail on the head.Last summer I had occasion to attend two games in New York City. I took my son to see the Yankees and the Athletics at the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Three nights later we went to see the Mets and the Rockies at the new Citi Field in Queens. When we came up from the subway for the Yankees game we were treated to street vendors selling all kinds of food and souveniers on the street, outside of the stadium. There were even stores that had the snack sized everything in bags ready to put in you coat and take into the stadium.No one at the ticket taker locations really looked that hard. Contrast that to Citi Field. Come out of the subway at Willets road station and you walk into a gigantic parking lot. And guess what? Not a single vendor of anything anywhere on acres of parking lot or anywhere outside the actual stadium. When asked where the hotdog vendors were (outside) I was told by a stadium official that there was plenty of food INSIDE ( at the huge prices they command).
Outside Yankee Stadium anything you wanted and outside Citi Field-NOTHING. Guess which experience I preferred and then guess what the Ticats ( Bob Young and Scott Mitchell) want? The outside entreprenuers ala Yankees or the captive audience ala Mets. A huge cash grab and 60 million of the city's future fund for the privelege.Even in Toronto, there is street food to be had outside of the ACC and Rogers Centre.
I also discovered what a pleasure it is to go to the ACC via GO train as opposed to the driveway to stadium back to driveway experience. The train is a no brainer as it will be at WH once all of the GO and LRT systems come to be.
Just my observations.

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