It’s good to hear that the Mets are honoring their long-time tradition here.

There’s a reference in one of the books published after the ‘69 season to the early days of the club. The Mayor and an entourage of muckety-mucks were given a tour of the almost-completed Shea, and the engineers spent a major portion of the time bragging about the superior restroom facilities.

This led one wag in attendance to crack, “What are we building here, a ballpark or a place to go to the toilet?”

If the ensuing 44 years of Met history proved anything, it was that we were building both.

Interesting. I guess the disparity was under the presumption that women don’t go to baseball games?

I wonder how these figures match up against the ratio of Men to Women at a ballgame, although I suppose those numbers are hard to nail down exactly.  I’d like to trust that the Mets crunched those numbers when planning Citi Field, but I don’t have that kind of faith.

I don’t mind the disparity so much b/c isn’t the men’s room line always longer than the women’s rooms?  My cousin crashed a luxury box one night b/c the lines were so long on the Mezzanine.

Ray, another one of my favorite quotes from one of those books is, “You have to let the ladies tinkle.”

Robin, the thing about shea is that it really did have an above-average amount of women’s facilities. But I never knew it was that off until now.

Coop, I think it depends on the day and the level.