haplo53: I'd post a link, but it's actually off of lexis/nexis.


Thanks. I can look it up there.

Mike Stanton=farking idiot.

Mets-related tangent - Mike and the MadDog are doing the play by play for the Mets game on WFAN right now. WTF???

This should be interesting.

Let's go Mets!

/submitter is an asshat

I live in the Twin Cities, home of the blight called the MetroDome, and I can even say that Shea Stadium's time was up several years ago.

fark_indiana: the new stadium, whatever it ends up looking like, will be a palace of luxury boxes and premier seating. the common fan has been priced out of existence.

EXACTLY. Tho' Camden Yards is a nicer stadium for baseball, it is a chi-chi place, with expensive food and drinks (where's mah Natty Boh, hon?). Memorial Staduium was much more real, more down-to-earth. Wild Bill would never have made it as a fan icon at Camden Yards.

NYRBill: Philadelphians miss the Vet.

The funny thing is, about a dozen years ago when Camden Yards was first open, an editorial piece appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in response to the Phillies' owners saying that the city should replace Veterans Stadium with a park like Camden Yards. The editorial in essence said, "You had a place like Camden Yards. It was called Connie Mack Stadium, and you made us replace it and build you the Vet."

Shea is a serviceable stadium, but that's all it is. It's also designed in such a way that the upper deck is always freezing cold. Night games are a terror up there.

Once the new stadium is built, nobody will remember Shea.

I'm just saying it is kinda sad that NYC does not have new, modern stadiums for any team.

... and would it be too much to ask to have a NY team actually PLAY in NY ???

Where, pray tell, are you going to put it? There's nowhere to put a football stadium in the Metro/NY area. You'd have to go to Yonkers to even come close and I don't think Yonkers has the infrastructure.

Besides, the Giants and Jets are the exceptions, not the rules.

From what I've seen, BOTH New York stadiums are due for replacement.

I live here in NYC, and of course am spoiled by having grown up in Massachusetts (Fenway Park, the best park in baseball) so it's hard for the two stadiums in NY to hold a candle to such an icon, but Shea is absolutely generic, and Yankee Stadium lost all its ambience in 1976 when they gutted it out and then "modernized" it with concrete.

Build the Mets a new stadium! Look how well that worked for the Reds.

/my tax dollars at work.

No tax dollars for either of the new baseball stadiums. City is building the parking lots and train stations. City then proceeds to charge $25/car to park there. I think they'll be OK.

/Yankee Stadium shouldn't be replaced.

Mor Beal
The editorial in essence said, "You had a place like Camden Yards. It was called Connie Mack Stadium, and you made us replace it and build you the Vet."

I've been to the new stadium, it's very nice. only saw CY from the outside but it looks really good on TV. I've seen pics of CMS and it looked like the old school ballpark that it was.
/wife worked with a guy named Connie. after the player, not the park :-p

The stadium is like WTC?

Shea's on a plane?

so...they are bringing the homerun apple?

maybe they can replace it with a statue that does the jose reyes homerun celebration handshake/dance. perforable, with an apple.

Submitter is indeed an asshat and haplo has quite succinctly explained why.

As a life-long Mets fan, I will miss Shea terribly. I don't know what the people who call it a "cookie cutter" stadium are smoking: Shea is one of the most unique stadiums in MLB today. The cookie cutters were 3 Rivers, Busch Stadium II (the new one is III), The Vet, and Riverfront.

I'm sure the new stadium will be very nice, but what concerns me is, as others have said, that it will probably be all luxury seats. But what may be even worse is I'm POSITIVE it will have a stupid corporate sponsor name like almost all of these fancy new ballparks do, which is even more annoying when it changes every other year.

Everything built since Camden Yards looks like... well, Camden yards. So what exactly is a "cookie cutter" again?

Shea Stadium is like a Catherdral to me. I have such fond memories of attending about 40 games a year back when you could get Upper Unreserved seats for $1.50 and the highlight of the game was seeing Number 7, Ed Kranepool come out to pinch hit. The Mets were really really bad back in those days, but we loved them, and I still love them.

All that said, it was crass of the author to use THAT quote.

I watched them build the Twin Towers as I was growing up. and I watched them fall by acts of cowardace.

Shea coming down will be an emotional event, for sure, but we will have a new, better and beautiful stadium in its place.

But what may be even worse is I'm POSITIVE it will have a stupid corporate sponsor name like almost all of these fancy new ballparks do, which is even more annoying when it changes every other year.

Yes, the've already said the Mets will have naming rights to the stadium. Welcome to Banco Popular Field!

Phills 5
Mutts 3

My first Yankee game was at Shea, while they were redoing the Stadium in '75.

One thing bad about Shea, the lower "field seats" deck goes allllllll the way back. Therefore, seats in the upper deck are really far back. Yankees stadium's upper deck kind of hangs over the lower decks so even if you're in the uppper deck, the seats aren't horrible.

/2 cents

CC

eh, mets took two of three without throwing pedro or glavine. I'll take it.

Well, it is a piece of garbage, but it is my piece of garbage.

The mookie flags.

The Apple.

The bright colored seats.

The Neon basball players on the outside.

Diamondvision.

All of those are memorable, but it may be time to move on, the stadium's venues, seating, and efficiency are not up to par anymore.

And, since no one else has done this:

The Jets haven't been to the Super Bowl since leaving Shea. Nuff said.

shea was actually a major staging ground for recovery and aid operations after 9/11...

IIRC utility infielder Joe McEwing even drove a forklift during the operations there.

And now more than ever Shea has the best scoreboard in the bigs, hands down.

Need more bars there though. Only decent place I know is in the Ramada at 114th and 37th (formerly Bobby V's). There used to be a great pizza place/pool hall on Roosevelt and 111th but now it's just a pool hall.

Raise Shea Stadium? Why? Is it sinking, Mister Peterson?