Citi Field feels like home now

Tens of thousands of Mets fans will be walking into Citi Field today, a building that once felt more like a neutral site than it did the home of the Mets.

But Citi Field has finally started to feel like the Mets' home rather than just an homage to Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

“In the beginning, we got criticized a lot for the Brooklyn Dodgers stuff,” Mets team historian and vice president of alumni relations Jay Horwitz said in this Newsday article from our preview section about baseball's great stages. “We didn’t really pay enough homage to our past. I think as the years went by, we realized that we had to get away from other teams and talk about our teams [as well]. We just tried to make it so fans [were surrounded] by Mets history.”