More corporate stadium names

[ugarte]

[quote nyc94][quote ugarte]for a stadium in the greatest city in the world.[/quote]

The Mets are moving to London?[/quote]

You bring shame to your moniker.

[nyc94]

How about Cisco Field?

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Isn't Bank One Ballpark now Chase Field?

[cth95]

Good one.  I was just making something up and didn't even think about the real name.

[ugarte]

[quote nyc94]Isn't Bank One Ballpark now Chase Field?[/quote]Maybe, but whatever the corporate name is, I still call the stadium that the 49ers lose in "Candlestick Park". BOB will live forever.

[nyc94]

[quote RichH]Shouldn't this be an old-school eLF "caption contest?"[/quote]

How about, "Which of us will still be in our current job when this stadium actually opens?"

[DeltaOne81]

[quote nyc94][quote RichH]Shouldn't this be an old-school eLF "caption contest?"[/quote]

How about, "Which of us will still be in our current job when this stadium actually opens?"[/quote]

Heh. Well, Wright and Reyes are guaranteed. Unless they're traded, but... yeah right.

[Jordan 04]

[quote KeithK][quote Jordan 04]2) IMO, if an extra $20 million/year brings an ace pitcher or an extra bat to the lineup that's the difference between a Game 7 NLCS loss and a championship, Freddie can put whatever damn name he wants on the building.  I'm sure I won't be the only one calling the place "Shea" anyway.[/quote]More likely the $20 million naming rights are factored into the costs of the stadium construction.  The team will have much more than $20 million/year in debt service.[/quote]

Allocate it wherever you wish, $20 million in extra revenue is still $20 in extra revenue.

Bottom line is that it can only help to expand the player personnel budget.

[gtsully]

Of all the corporate names, this is my second favorite (I couldn't care less about Bank One but love that the stadium is called The BOB). CitiField, spelling and the fact that it is a brand at all aside, isn't a bad name for a stadium in the greatest city in the world.

The BOB is, in fact, now called Chase Field.  And my favorite of the corporate names is Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati (and it's a sweet park, to boot), even if it is named after an insurance company.

[KeithK]

[quote gtsully]And my favorite of the corporate names is Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati (and it's a sweet park, to boot), even if it is named after an insurance company.[/quote]Agreed on the Great American Ballpark.  I never realized that it was a corporate name until I set foot in the place and saw some sort of insurance company ad.  That's the kind of corporate name that I can live with - one that doesn't sound blatantly commercial.

[nyc94]

[quote KeithK][quote gtsully]And my favorite of the corporate names is Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati (and it's a sweet park, to boot), even if it is named after an insurance company.[/quote]Agreed on the Great American Ballpark.  I never realized that it was a corporate name until I set foot in the place and saw some sort of insurance company ad.  That's the kind of corporate name that I can live with - one that doesn't sound blatantly commercial.[/quote]

That's probably a good sign that your company is wasting millions of dollars a year on a naming deal, at least at the major league level.  I wonder what percentage of NFL fans outside of Tampa know that Raymond James is a brokerage company and not the team owner or founder.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote nyc94][quote KeithK][quote gtsully]And my favorite of the corporate names is Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati (and it's a sweet park, to boot), even if it is named after an insurance company.[/quote]Agreed on the Great American Ballpark.  I never realized that it was a corporate name until I set foot in the place and saw some sort of insurance company ad.  That's the kind of corporate name that I can live with - one that doesn't sound blatantly commercial.[/quote]

That's probably a good sign that your company is wasting millions of dollars a year on a naming deal, at least at the major league level.  I wonder what percentage of NFL fans outside of Tampa know that Raymond James is a brokerage company and not the team owner or founder.[/quote]

How many NFL fans listen to NPR's Marketplace, which is underwritten by RJ?

[RichH]

[quote KeithK]Agreed on the Great American Ballpark.  I never realized that it was a corporate name until I set foot in the place and saw some sort of insurance company ad.  That's the kind of corporate name that I can live with - one that doesn't sound blatantly commercial.[/quote]

I feel the same way with Frontier Field in Rochester (named after the telecommunications company).  Buffalo, however, had their corporately named ballpark go from one of the best names, "Pilot Field," named after Pilot Air Freight, to one of the worst, "Dunn Tire Park."

[jtwcornell91]

[quote gtsully]

Of all the corporate names, this is my second favorite (I couldn't care less about Bank One but love that the stadium is called The BOB). CitiField, spelling and the fact that it is a brand at all aside, isn't a bad name for a stadium in the greatest city in the world.

The BOB is, in fact, now called Chase Field.  And my favorite of the corporate names is Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati (and it's a sweet park, to boot), even if it is named after an insurance company.[/quote]

In the same category is the old Great Western Forum in LA.  And I heard the name "Franklin Quest Field" (home of the AAA Salt Lake Buzz) a bunch of times before I learned it was a department store.

[Lowell '99]

If you accept that corporate names are a given these days, speaking as a diehard Mets fan, I sort of don't mind "CitiField."  Short of a MetLife sponsored "Met [field/stadium/park]," it's a reasonable option.

As Jordan said, the park is whatever you want to call it.

I remember when the Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls built their arenas in the mid 90's.  Respectively, they were named "The Delta Center,"  and  "The United Center."  And until I saw a blimp fly-by of the roofs, I had no idea they were named after the airlines.  Some names work okay.  The Verizon Center, on the other hand, leaves little to the imagination.

[Josh '99]

[quote Lowell '99]If you accept that corporate names are a given these days, speaking as a diehard Mets fan, I sort of don't mind "CitiField."  Short of a MetLife sponsored "Met [field/stadium/park]," it's a reasonable option.
[/quote]I mean, it could be worse, yeah, but I just think it sounds like "CitiField, a subsidiary of CitiBank" rather than "CitiBank Field, a stadium sponsored by CitiBank."  I know that isn't clear, really, but that's the best I can do, I think.