NY Mets ballpark makes another cinematic appearance but there’s a big problem

Citi Field hasn’t had enough life to appear in too many films or television shows. A scene in Avengers Endgame might be its most notable to cross over into the motion picture industry. The home of the New York Mets since 2009 will slowly but surely pop into more scenes on screen. In the first images released of an upcoming Darren Aronofsky film, it’ll apparently show up again. Good for you, Citi Field. You've been busy.

But there’s a problem. As eagle-eyed Mets fans and even the Mets Director for SNY John DeMarisco pointed out, the timing doesn’t work.

Aronofsky’s film takes place through the late 1990s. Shea Stadium was still rocking. Citi Field didn't exist.

A movie faux pas only baseball fans will care about is a whale of a problem for Darren Aronofsky

Aronofsky isn’t the kind of director who stays within the full realm of reality. In this case, it’s going to bug the heck out of baseball fans who want to have a better sense of the time. This means no Citi Field if it’s the 1990s. And if there is an actual baseball scene, there better not be a reliever taken out of the game after facing one batter.

We’ll have to see if Citi Field’s appearance actually makes its way into the final cut of the film or if editors quickly get to work removing it or changing the ballpark to look like Shea Stadium. Many film viewers who couldn’t care less about baseball wouldn’t have a problem with the incorrect stadium usage. What about us who live and breathe the game? It'll be be up there with in Rookie of the Year the manager mentions plucking his pitching coach in the minor leagues years ago. Pitchers rarely become big league managers.

This error won’t quite be up there alongside the Stormtrooper who bumps his head in the first Star Wars or the SWAT team member who hurts himself in the bushes in Die Hard then yelps in pain—both moments that made the final cut when a soldier had a happy little accident.

Technology should be able to wipe any mention of Citi Field and possibly the Mets at all out of this film. It’s not exactly a sequel to Frequency, undoubtedly the greatest movie ever made where the Mets are a major plot.