August 23, 2009
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If you missed the pre-game of last night’s Mets-Phillies game, you missed a very well done celebration of the Mets first World Series championship- The Miracle Mets. A couple of things stood out for me about the celebration:
The Mets organization does a great job with these events like they did with [...]
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August 15, 2009
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Demolishing Shea Stadium and building Citi Field was certainly unwelcome for some Mets fans. It marked a changing of the guard for the franchise and maybe even a sense for some of us that we would be left behind in history as fans of the “old” Mets that played at the [...]
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March 12, 2009
The folks at Maple Street Press were kind enough to send me a copy of the Mets season preview magazine from Maple Street Press (MPS). The magazine is 128 pages packed with Mets information to get you fired up for this season.
Before I get too deep into this I’ll tell you that this is not [...]
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February 22, 2009
I love the work that Ben Shipgel does for the New York Times. This week he’s been covering the Mets from Port St. Lucie and doing a tremendous job of it. I particularly like a profile that he wrote for yesterday’s NYT on Mets catching prospect Josh Thole.
Thole is the most advanced catching prospect that [...]
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February 19, 2009
You can see the last piece of Shea Stadium coming down in this video from Yahoo:
Shea Stadium Final Demolition
The video was taken on February 18, 2009 at 11:25am. So long Shea…
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September 15, 2008
The Atlanta Braves have now played their last game ever at Shea Stadium. I’ve heard a lot of people talking about the great rivalry of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. And it really was a great one. It’s lost some luster in recent years but I have a feeling it’ll be back in the [...]
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August 5, 2008
The Mets are selling the seats in pairs when Shea closes for $869 plus tax. You can order a pair here and season ticket holders will get priority.
I can just see myself now… sitting on my upper deck seat watching a game at Citi Field on TV. Sounds good.
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