Hackett
BAKAMAN
The NYCFC field is a complete joke. It's not even close to being big enough under the rules for senior games. That would be like the NFL having an expansion team in downtown LA and since they don't have a real football stadium, having them play on a 80 yards football field...MLS is taking major steps backwards in the past years in too many things. Quality of playing field is one of them with all those dreadful synthetic...
I'm no fan of the artificial surfaces either but I think the MLS is actually trending in the right direction on this front.
I think outside of the the Pacific Northwest clubs (Seattle, Vancouver, and maybe Portland) there are barely any other synthetic fields left and most of those exceptions are short term solutions.
There is a thread about this issue buried somewhere in this forum, and I left it believing that the artificial turfs in the MLS are a lot less prevalent than I thought.