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Oh Shea You Couldn't See

G-Fafif Jul 13 2017 06:55 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 14 2017 12:09 PM

On this 40th anniversary of the 1977 blackout, Vice Sports tracked down six guys who were at Shea when the lights went out, including my brother-in-law, a.k.a. The Disgruntled Employee. "They made us come back! It was a hot, humid day and I basically walk through Flushing to Shea, and I'm thinking, 'Why are they doing this? You can't play a baseball game without power,'" Trost says. "So I get there, and there's a fair number of concession people and ticket takers who made the trek, and they don't let us in the ballpark. We stood outside baking for a while and they just sent us home. Of course, the lights came on that afternoon and they could have played."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 13 2017 07:09 PM Re: Oh Shea You Couldn't See

Small world alert: The "Wide Eyed Kid" lived in my neighborhood, I knew he went to a lot of Mets games. Mike and I played on opposing softball teams when we were young adults, he always got 4 hits a game. It was revenge for my victory over him several years earlier in a bubble-blowing contest where the prize was a Hubba Bubba t-shirt and a $25 Harmon Drugs gift certificate. He was trying to cheat by working 2 pieces of gum before the contest but the organizers made him spit it out and go with one.

G-Fafif Jul 14 2017 12:10 PM Re: Oh Shea You Couldn't See

Small world...and evidence that there are, what, maybe 14 Mets fans altogether?

cooby Jul 14 2017 10:07 PM Re: Oh Shea You Couldn't See

Read this last night and loved it! Thanks for posting it!