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Mr. Shea Stadium

Edgy DC Mar 29 2010 08:11 AM

I got an e-mail from Mr. Shea Stadium trying to sell me stuff. I have to give him credit. That's a great name and I bet he scores big with the ladies. The fun thing is him trying to push the remaining banners he has "ONLY ONE LEFT!" of. That's it --- underscore the scarcity of banners featuring the likenesses of nearly universally disliked players.

metirish Mar 29 2010 08:18 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

Hurry , only one Estes left for $200

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 29 2010 08:20 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

That guy emailed me too but I deleted it right away. Hmmmm

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 29 2010 08:24 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

[quote="metirish":1eggrlmt]Hurry , only one Estes left for $200[/quote:1eggrlmt] Don't miss this one-- you'll never hear the end of it from your stupid friends!

seawolf17 Mar 29 2010 09:15 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

I can't tell if this is a guy who bought a bunch of stuff from the MeiGray group and is trying to resell it, or if it's MeiGray themselves. Weird.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 29 2010 09:43 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

I hope that MeiGray guy goes bankrupt warehousing all that crap and it gets liquidated at the pennies on the dollar its worth.

Edgy DC Mar 29 2010 09:50 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

I'd definitely call myself "Mr. Shea Stadium" if I could buy the rights at pennies on the dollar.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 29 2010 10:01 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

If you paid me dollars on the penny, I might display a Braden Looper in our front window.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 29 2010 10:03 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

Fuck this guy. He's not Mr. Shea Stadium, he's Mr. I Intend To Profit From The Destruction Of Shea Stadium.

Edgy DC Mar 29 2010 10:08 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

I'm ashamed to say that I already have. Yeah, it makes me a whore, but nobody fucks with me at work now that I have that sweet Roger Cedeņo banner hanging behind my desk.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 29 2010 10:29 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

[quote="Edgy DC"]I'm ashamed to say that I already have. Yeah, it makes me a whore, but nobody fucks with me at work now that I have that sweet Roger Cedeņo banner hanging behind my desk.

That's probably because they assume you have no power.

seawolf17 Mar 29 2010 10:29 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

I'm still pissed at MeiGray for telling me they'd call me when the Mr. Met "No Smoking" signs would be available, then when I called back, saying they were all already sold.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 29 2010 10:58 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

So bummed this "Cold Beverage Drink Holder" sold. It was only $65 bucks, but I was waiting til payday. It has a hologram and stuff.

metsguyinmichigan Mar 29 2010 12:06 PM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"][quote="Edgy DC"]I'm ashamed to say that I already have. Yeah, it makes me a whore, but nobody fucks with me at work now that I have that sweet Roger Cedeņo banner hanging behind my desk.

That's probably because they assume you have no power.

Bullet! Of! Cool!!!!!!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 29 2010 12:11 PM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

Well, hey, I just see an opportunity, and I close my eyes and swing as hard as I can. But that's what making your coat lining out of a Jeromy Burnitz banner will do for you.

Kong76 Mar 29 2010 06:08 PM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

If anyone finds out who Mr. Shea Stadium is please tell us.

G-Fafif Mar 29 2010 06:14 PM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

I thought this was a thread about Bob Mandt. Nice article kissing Shea goodbye from the Snooze...in 1999. That certainly took a while. A SWAN SONG FOR HISTORY-FILLED SHEA 3-DECADE OLD BALLPARK IS SLATED FOR DEMOLITION BY DONALD BERTRAND DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, July 20th 1999, 2:10AM For 35 years, millions of New Yorkers have screamed their hearts out at Shea Stadium and walked away with memories to last a lifetime. From the Amazin' Mets to Pope John Paul, the Beatles invasion to the Rev. Billy Graham, Shea Stadium has been a place where people witnessed history, pursued their passions and refreshed their souls. It is where the Mets won the World Series in both 1969 and 1986. It is where the upstart Jets built a championship season, then went on to pull off one of the biggest upsets in sports history their 1969 defeat of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. It is where the Beatles packed the house in 1965 with swooning, screaming females in a frenzy over the Fab Four. The Pope drew more than 60,000 of the faithful to Shea during his 1979 visit. That visit was not the only religious convocation at Shea. There was Billy Graham in 1970, Jehovah's Witnesses in 1978 and the Promise Keepers in 1996. The Rolling Stones packed them in, too, playing six concerts during October 1988 at Shea. There were wrestling and boxing matches, soccer and college football games, and even the Ice Capades. Memories all, many of them great ones, for those who had a seat in the house. But it won't be long before Shea is just a memory, too. Ever since the Jets left Shea for Giants Stadium in 1983, there has been talk of building a new stadium in Queens. Though the final plan has yet to take shape, Shea will be torn down in a few years to be replaced by a new stadium where new memories will be made. Shea is named for William Shea, the attorney who fought hard to get the Big Apple a National League baseball team after the city was abandoned by the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants in the 1950s. In 1960, the league decided to expand to 10 teams and awarded franchises to Houston and New York. The Mets started play in 1962 at the Polo Grounds while Shea was built at a cost of $28.5 million. Originally it was to be called Flushing Meadows Park, but that plan changed after a movement was launched to honor Shea. Shea was the first stadium in the U.S. capable of being converted from a baseball to a football field and back, using two motor-operated stands that moved on tracks. The Mets ticket office moved in even before construction on the ballpark was finished. "There was no water. There were no toilets. There were lights, but there was no heat," said Bob Mandt, vice president of purchasing and special projects for the Mets and, in December 1963, the team's season box manager. Electrical heaters were put in to take care of the lack of heat, and chemical toilets were installed as well. "The women refused [to use the chemical toilets]. They rebelled. A couple times a day we would have a bathroom run" to the hotel near LaGuardia Airport where the Mets set up headquarters, Mandt remembers. On the eve of Opening Day, the field was christened with Dodgers "holy water" from the Gowanus Canal and Giants "holy water" from the Harlem River at the Polo Grounds. Then, on Opening Day, a strike at the World's Fair next door knocked out phone service at Shea. "The only [working] phone in the building was a private line that I had in my office, and somehow Dick Young, columnist for the Daily News, found out," said Mandt. "He called in his story from my desk. He was probably the only one who got his story in in a timely way," said the Whitestone resident. The Mets' inaugural home opener ended unhappily, with a 4-3 loss to the Pirates before 48,736 fans. ``In the early days of Shea, we had a lot of outside events. They were trying the place out. We had some prizefights, soccer matches, college football Army vs. Notre Dame, and Pitt vs. Syracuse and of course we had the Beatles," Mandt said. The Beatles made their first appearance at Shea in 1965, said Mandt.The biggest baseball crowd at Shea Stadium was in 1964 for the Mayor's Trophy game, said the Met executive, who noted that the game had been rained out twice before. "When we finally played it the third time around, everybody who had a ticket showed up plus all the standing room we had sold for the first two games also showed up so we had in excess of 60,000 people in the house. We have never matched that," he said. Mandt's fondest Met memories are of the 1969 team, the franchise's first-ever world champion. "Art Shamsky, Ed Charles, Cleon Jones, Buddy Harrelson, Tom Seaver, Ed Kranepool I still see these guys," he said. "They are around the ballpark quite a bit so we have become good friends over the years. It is a great, fond, shared memory the '69 World Championship. Nothing compares to winning the whole thing the first time." For Jim Gatto, a longtime part-time Parks Department employee at the stadium, the event that stands out the most is the Pope's visit in 1979, when Parks workers set up the stage for the pontiff. "I will never forget going up to the Parks Department office on the fourth floor. There was this beautiful carved chair for the Pope that came from a Manhattan church. I had the opportunity to carry it and put it on the stage," he said. Gatto recalls that it was raining as the papal entourage came off 126th St. and through the fence. "As soon as he came in the sky opened up and the sun came through. It was a funny feeling. It was really great." WAITING'S FUN Going to a ballgame at Shea? It can be a lot more than the game. Activity on the field starts up to three hours before gametime. It all starts with the Mets pitchers having batting practice, and after a half-hour the rest of the Mets get into the act. Regular batting practice goes for about 50 minutes. The visiting team is then given 40 minutes of batting practice. Next comes infield practice, with the Mets having 15 minutes and then the visitors 10. The grounds crew then takes over and prepares the field for the game.

MFS62 Mar 30 2010 09:34 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

Nice article the brought me more than one tear. I would have added Piazza's post 9/11 home run that jump started New York's heart and soul. Later

Edgy DC Mar 30 2010 10:02 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

Well, if you knew that was coming in 1999, we'd have to arrest you.

MFS62 Mar 30 2010 10:09 AM Re: Mr. Shea Stadium

[quote="Edgy DC":ecwj0ong]Well, if you knew that was coming in 1999, we'd have to arrest you.[/quote:ecwj0ong] If I wrote it today. LOL! Later