Citibank will still pay $400 million for naming rights to Mets stadium

[jbane]

Can this deal be stopped?
I sure hope so.

[NightWatcher]

1. they could call it Failure Field

that would reference either Citi or the Mets themselves


Beat the Mets, beat the Mets. Step right up and beat the Mets

[jbane]

4. Ouch!!!

How about this, all fires Citibank employees get one free tour of the facility, with every ticket purchased.

[Skidmore]

2. I don't know why it can't be stopped. Do we not have voices?

[Captain Hilts]

3. That's insane. nt

[ok_cpu]

5. Contrast with: ESPN reporting GM to halt nine-year endorsement deal with Woods

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3722964

DETROIT -- General Motors is bailing out on Tiger Woods.

Woods, a global icon in sports with his 14 major championships, has been carrying the Buick logo on his golf bag for the last nine years and still had one year left on his contract.

But General Motors Corp. was looking to cut costs and hoard cash while trying to survive the worst sales downturn in a quarter-century. And it said Monday the world's No. 1 golfer wanted more time for himself, especially with a second child on the way.

[Fresh_Start]

6. Sure you can pay the Mets the $400 million that they are

entitled to by contract.

[ben_meyers]

7. Here's is another questionable expenditure

Maybe just a drop in the bucket, but how about they pay it back.

It would be interesting to know how the average New York voter would respond when told that during the past three years their Senator and her spouse personally received $2.1 million from such major banks as Goldman Sachs ($800,000), Lehman Bros. ($300, 000), Citigroup ($425,000) and Deutsche Bank ($300,000).

The money -- honoraria payments to former President Clinton -- demonstrate that the conflicts between Bill Clinton's multi-million dollar financial entanglements and his wife's possible selection as Secretary of State are just as relevant in the case of the elected office Hillary Clinton currently holds, raising to front and center the same glaring conflicts of interest that have gone largely overlooked during Hillary's eight years in the Senate.

Sources close to the Clintons sought to justify the ex-president's speaking fees by noting that wealthy spouses of other Senators, including the wives of John Kerry of Massachusetts and John McCain of Arizona, have multi-million dollar fortunes, often invested in the stocks of companies that stand to gain or lose as a result of tax and regulatory decisions made by Congress.

So far it's only 2.1 million, but they haven't released 2008 numbers yet.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/bills-speaking-fees-creat_n_145385.html?page=2&show_comment_id=18189671#comment_18189671

I know it's from an iffy source and I'm not at all questioning Obama's judgment in even considering bringing "them" into his changed administration.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. Headline should read "You and I get to pay for CITI ego trip"

to the tune of $400M.