Ruth’s impact on the Yankees was enormous but I prefer Yankee Stadium. It’s the home for the team, after all. “The House That Ruth Built” was a great nickname, but, you know, luxury boxes. :rolleyes:
Yankee Stadium would be Taxpayer Field. Or ‘The House That People Who Can No Longer Afford Tickets Built’
Vin Scully Stadium. Seriously.
Change just one letter change: City Field.
Along the same lines, it seems to me an injustice that the Edmonton Oilers do not play in the Gretzky Centre.
Montreal Forum works fine for me. Or the Jean Beliveau Forum.
I’m claiming the exception of having two teams, so I dub the new Giants and Jets joint stadium after either JetBlue or Apple, depending on who ponies up the most cash.
I could almost get behind this.
I really like the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium. That said, I would be okay with renaming it Lamar Hunt Stadium.
I wouldn’t change the colors, the whole Blue/Orange thing makes perfect sense. But the look of the uni is extremely dated and ugly. The pinstripes don’t work. The script Mets doesn’t work. The NY logo on the hat needs a white border ala the Cubs. All in all, the Mets have one of the worst unis in all of baseball.
It’s not that many Dodgers/Giants fans haven’t made up their mind, it’s that many have either simply quit on baseball or their enthusiasm for the Mets never really gained any steam. The Mets have always catered to them somewhat but haven’t really gone full bore. Jackie Robinson Field leaves zero ambiguity, and I think a lot of jaded NY National league fans would come out to soak it in if they went all out with the nostalgia gimmick.
Generally speaking I just think the Mets need a shot in the arm. Uniforms and stadium names are the obvious places to start.
Wasn’t Shea the same guy who forced the Dodgers out of Brooklyn by refusing to build a new stadium in Brooklyn?
For some reason, I remember him being the guy who was in charge of city planning or something. And even though Brooklyn had a great new location for a stadium, Shea nixed the idea.
The Lions Ford Field should be renamed " taxpayer sinkhole park’. They had a very good stadium in Pontiac with a capacity of over 80,000 that worked fine. ’
The guy I was thinking of is Robert Moses, not Bill Shea.
My apologies.
I only like stadiums with corporate names. All sports stadiums should have corporate names.
Fire Minaya Field?
If it has to be a more permanent name I’d name it for Bob Murphy and have a bar inside named The Happy Recap.
Maybe I’m dating myself but renaming the FleetCenter (now TD Garden) in Boston to UFIA Arena, anyone?
PNC Park should be Roberto Clemente Field.
I actually like the name Turner Field for the Atlanta Braves, it has grown on me. Ted Turner was an important person who partly made the Braves the team they are today so I have no problems with it being named after him. The road the stadium is on is named Hank Aaron Drive which is also fitting.
If I had to change something originally, I probably would have voted for Aaron Field and Turner Drive, but it isn’t that big a deal.
Much better then the selling of stadium names now, which names changing every 10 years or so.
Fenway Park gets to keep its name. Or maybe rename it Green Monster Stadium… 
The Celtics, OTOH, should definitely play in the Red Auerbach Garden.
Aren’t Mets fans already a bit annoyed at how many Dodger logos are plastered all over their front door? I mean, yes, it’s Jackie Robinson, but Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers, who are not the Mets, and who still play in the National League. I’d understand a city wholly embracing a contracted/defunct team’s history, but not so much one that you still have to host, if only once a year.