Last night, Justin hit a long home run to left field that left the entire stadium in awe. Diamondbacks fans cheered, and "Uptown Girls" squealed, but lost in the frenzy was the exposure of an alarming tendency that Justin has. Well, alarming if you are sitting in the Stadium Club, that is.
The reason people sit in the Stadium Club, is so that they can eat good food and catch up with friends/family/colleagues..and if the conversation ever gets boring, they can quickly glance back at the field and act like they are interested in the game. People don't sit in the Stadium Club so that they can watch a baseball game. If they really wanted to watch the game, they could spend the same amount of money on seats right behind home plate. And Justin Upton knows this.
Not only does he know this, but he resents it.
When the architects and planners sat down to design Citi Field, they wanted to put the Stadium Club in a place far away from the field of play. They wanted to do this, because they knew that these fans were the ones least likely to be watching the game and they didn't want to put them at risk of being hit by a flying object. But they made a huge error in their calculations. Sure they put it 450 feet away from home plate, but they put it in left field. Apparently they didn't get the memo that J-Up doesn't like it when fans go to the ballpark and don't watch the game. It wasn't long before this architectural error was exposed.
In Justin's first game at Citi, he patiently waited to show New York's "High Society" how they do it in Uptown, but he didn't get the chance. The next day, he wasn't gonna waste this golden opportunity, and he took the third pitch he saw out of Citi Field and into the Stadium Club. The home run, didn't only send Dbacks fans into a frenzy, but it sent Stadium Club "fans" running for cover, in fear of their lives. Justin stood at home plate to watch the flight of the ball, and he didn't start running until he was sure his work was done. He walked casually around the bases acting like he'd done it before. And that's because he had. You see, this wasn't his first bombing raid on a Stadium Club. In fact, you can see his picture in Milwaukee's most wanted List.
Miller Park made the same mistake. They thought they were being smart when they put their Stadium Club 460 feet away from home plate. But once, Upton locked in on his target, it was game over for Milwaukee's "Elite." They were forced to end all conversations so that they could duck under the tables and hold on for dear lives as the ball hit the outer facing of the Stadium Club and shook the entire building.
In these next few years, The Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays will be coming out with new stadiums. If they have learned anything from the fatal architectural flaws at both Miller Park and Citi Field, they will put the Stadium Club somewhere behind home plate and out of Justin's line of site. Or better yet, not build one at all.....Justin has done it before and he won't hesitate to do it again.
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