Mets Stadium (Formerly Digital Domain Park) is a baseball stadium located in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The stadium was built in time for the 1988 season and holds 7,160 people. It is the Spring training home of the New York Mets, as well as the home to the St. Lucie Mets Class A team and the Gulf Coast Mets Rookie League team.
Thomas J. White, the person for whom the was stadium was originally named, was a politician in Florida who worked with sportswriter Jack Champion on the successful campaign to bring the Mets to Port St. Lucie. In 2004 the Mets changed the name of the venue to Tradition Field.
On March 23, 2010, during a Mets spring training game against the Atlanta Braves, it was announced that effective immediately the stadium would be renamed Digital Domain Park, as a result of a multi-year partnership between the Mets and Digital Domain.
At the end of the 2012 season the Mets announced that Digital Domain no longer would like to own the naming rights to the ballpark. The stadium was temporarily renamed Mets Stadium until further notice.
Famous quotes containing the words domain and/or park:
“Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation.... The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value.”
—V.N. (Valintin Nikolaevic)
“Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
back ...”
—Susan Griffin (b. 1943)