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It Was Benny Years Ago Today

G-Fafif Oct 07 2010 05:13 PM

Matthew Callan slides over from his Scratchbomb blog to recreate the 2000 season for Amazin' Avenue. His recollection of Game 3 of the NLDS, 10/7/2000, will give you as many chills as there were innings that Saturday afternoon/evening/night. Read it here.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 07 2010 06:09 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Wow! That means it's been ten years since the last time I conceived a child.

Edgy DC Oct 07 2010 07:38 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Ellis Burks in the house.

Edgy DC Oct 07 2010 07:55 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Great stuff there, including an appearance by 2008-2009 Met Ramon Martinez.

Ashie62 Oct 07 2010 08:11 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

I was there..bitter cold and increasingly so by the inning. It felt like neither team could score..but then..

metirish Oct 07 2010 08:16 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

What a read, great memories, ten years, wow..

themetfairy Oct 07 2010 09:31 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

My best birthday home run ever :)

HahnSolo Oct 08 2010 11:46 AM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

My second favorite day at Shea, following game 6.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 08 2010 11:50 AM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Reading the "Benny game" piece (I was there) made me wonder: When did Shea shake the most? Which game? And how could we even form an opinion without being at every big game?

HahnSolo Oct 08 2010 11:53 AM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Attended Game 6 (section 3 of upper deck); and the Benny game (loge box in RF near the auxiliary scoreboard). It felt louder at the Benny game, but i think that was because I was seated lower. Both games were ridiculously loud, though.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 08 2010 11:59 AM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

From that era, the three Shea-kingest games I attended were the Benny game, the Todd Pratt game, and the grand slam single game. I'd say that Pratt's HR shook up Shea more than Benny or Ventura. But I'm not certain.

themetfairy Oct 08 2010 12:18 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Not a game, but the place was totally rocking during the first Billy Joel concert (i.e., the Penultimate Play at Shea).

Benjamin Grimm Oct 08 2010 12:25 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Hopefully it won't be too long before the Mets do something extraordinary at Citi Field so we can see how loud the new place can get.

Ashie62 Oct 08 2010 12:54 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Reading the "Benny game" piece (I was there) made me wonder: When did Shea shake the most? Which game? And how could we even form an opinion without being at every big game? Shaking? For me. 1. Todd Pratt walkoff game 2. Benny walkoff 3. Ventura GSS (many had gone home.)

Willets Point Oct 08 2010 12:58 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

The Steve Henderson Game.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 08 2010 01:03 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

The walkoffs have it beat, but EndyCatch was pretty damn upper-deck-rattling.

seawolf17 Oct 08 2010 01:17 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Brad Clontz's wild pitch was the shakingest I ever experienced.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 08 2010 01:24 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Pratt. Zeile's bases-clearing hit in Game 5 vs. the Cardinals. Everyone on both teams and in the stands knew we were WS bound at that very moment. Very Sheaky.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 08 2010 01:36 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Did Shea get shakier as it got older? I was there in person for some big happenings back in the 1980's, but not since then. I remember experiencing noise, but not really the shaking. I do remember getting the sense of Shea shaking a lot while watching on TV in 1999 and 2000 though.

Edgy DC Oct 08 2010 01:42 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

Shook like a leaf on a tree for the Police in 1983.

G-Fafif Oct 08 2010 03:08 PM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

When the Mets made with double after double in Game 4 of the 2000 NLCS is when I honestly thought there was a chance Shea would crumble. Perhaps it was my location in the UD boxes that made it feel so precarious. Oh well, I reasoned, if I have to go, this is the way I'd want to go. Didn't necessarily quiver as much in the Upper Deck for Game 1 of the 2006 NLDS, but it was never louder in my experience -- before during and at the conclusion. The double tag Lo Duca laid on Kent and Drew definitely didn't hurt. The Field Level felt very trampoliney twice to my recollection, both in the waning days: first show of Billy Joel's Last Play at Shea (the one that wasn't the last) and, for whatever reason, a five-run rally a month later against the Braves. It was a big game, but it wasn't THAT big.

Gwreck Oct 10 2010 01:27 AM Re: It Was Benny Years Ago Today

I was in the front row of the UD for Reyes' leadoff home run against the Cardinals in Game 6 of the NLCS in 06 and actually had to grab the rail in front of me as I was concerned for my safety. The NLCS Game 4 ('00) and Division Series Game 1 ('06) also strike me as the two loudest in my memory.