Fansided

Ranking the best in-game experiences for each MLB team

By Joshua Sadlock

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 29 : Freeze races during game one of the 2019 Major League Baseball London Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees on June 29, 2019 at West Ham London Stadium in London, England. (Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 29 : Freeze races during game one of the 2019 Major League Baseball London Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees on June 29, 2019 at West Ham London Stadium in London, England. (Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 12: A general view of Shake Shack in the concourse before Game 3 of the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets at Citi Field on Monday, October 12, 2015 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB via Getty Images) *** Local Caption)
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 12: A general view of Shake Shack in the concourse before Game 3 of the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets at Citi Field on Monday, October 12, 2015 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB via Getty Images) *** Local Caption) /

New York Mets: The food

The Mets will always play second fiddle to the Yankees when it comes to New York City and there’s just nothing that’s going to be able to change that. Their new stadium, Citi Field, is nice and new in the way that structures costing hundreds of millions of dollars are supposed to be, but there’s no escaping the fact that it’s located in a gigantic parking lot overlooking LaGuardia Airport, the highway and dozens of used auto parts and tire shops. The Mets will always be fighting an uphill battle to surpass the Yankees, just as they have been since they entered the league.

Citi Field looks like a stadium that was commissioned by an owner hellbent on replicating Ebbets Field, the beloved Brooklyn ballpark. There’s just one problem — Ebbets Field was loved because it was a cozy neighborhood ballpark much like Fenway. Citi Field has a grand rotunda like Ebbets, but that’s about where the comparison stops. Willets Point might be the worst location for a stadium in Major League Baseball.

Perhaps because they are painfully aware of their location’s shortcomings, the Mets have set out aggressively to offer some of the best stadium food in the league. They have contracted with Danny Meyer of Shake Shack fame to come up with their menus. The Citi Field Shake Shack is one of the chain’s most popular locations and there is always a long line.

The best thing the Mets did with their elite stadium food is cluster most of it in center field where it is easily accessible to the common fans in the cheap seats. Most teams keep their prime food options around home plate where the seats are more expensive. The Mets have always been more for the common man than the Yankees (it takes more effort to be a Mets fan), so it’s nice to see them catering more to that type of fan than the VIPs sitting in club level.

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