Not saying that I saw him live and in person, but if you wanted cartoons, Casey Stengel was probably near the top.
I agree with you about Yankee Stadium - not that it means more to me - but that it's also a great sadness.
What do you think about the name? The last that I'd heard, there was a great public outcry that Citi should back out of the marketing deal with the Mets because they've taken a large chunk of the Federal bailout $.
I'm gonna go off into a corner and weep silently for a little while now.
Kucinich has declared the name to be his own personal bugaboo, so I think sometime in the next year or so it's going to go down. He may be an ineffective presidential candidate, but he's a fairly senior and powerful congressman.
I loved that show!lepidusFebruary 18 2009, 23:03:07 UTC
I particularly loved how Jordan was always better than them at everything. It must have been in his contract. Did you see the one where he beat Gretzky at hockey!?
I will miss Shea a lot, but I'm looking forward to watching the Mets with a cup holder.
Second, while I will always have wistful memories of wading through peanut shells and following my sherpa up the stairs in the upper deck, I agree that Shea was a dump, and Yankee Stadium, even renovated Yankee Stadium, was a holy place for all baseball fans. It's a damn shame they're tearing it down. I never went there, of course, because a) the Bronx is creepy and b) the Yankees are gross. But still.
Third, that place was haunted. I am not sure by whom, perhaps the '62 Mets from the Polo Grounds, or the Dodgers, or the former Native American inhabitants of Flushing. Perhaps we are now free of the B-horror movie curse that has plagued us in one way or another for 47 years. If not, at least Chipper Jones may have to name his next kid Citi.
I always wonder if naming a stadium after your bank is actually an effective form of advertising. Does anyone give a shit, except possibly to resent it?
Shea has always been a landmark, but not in any particularly glamorous way. On the Flushing-bound 7 train, it's the sign that you're almost at Main Street. And I've read it's a key landmark for airline pilots making the landing approach at LaGuardia. But for everybody else it's just a giant clashy bowl that sticks out conspicuously from the marshland.
I have to admit, the new park does look very nice. I hope the Mets have better luck there than they've had at Shea the last few years. But hey, they still did win two World Series and two other pennants. That's really not that bad for an expansion team.
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I agree with you about Yankee Stadium - not that it means more to me - but that it's also a great sadness.
What do you think about the name? The last that I'd heard, there was a great public outcry that Citi should back out of the marketing deal with the Mets because they've taken a large chunk of the Federal bailout $.
I'm gonna go off into a corner and weep silently for a little while now.
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I will miss Shea a lot, but I'm looking forward to watching the Mets with a cup holder.
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So there.
Second, while I will always have wistful memories of wading through peanut shells and following my sherpa up the stairs in the upper deck, I agree that Shea was a dump, and Yankee Stadium, even renovated Yankee Stadium, was a holy place for all baseball fans. It's a damn shame they're tearing it down. I never went there, of course, because a) the Bronx is creepy and b) the Yankees are gross. But still.
Third, that place was haunted. I am not sure by whom, perhaps the '62 Mets from the Polo Grounds, or the Dodgers, or the former Native American inhabitants of Flushing. Perhaps we are now free of the B-horror movie curse that has plagued us in one way or another for 47 years. If not, at least Chipper Jones may have to name his next kid Citi.
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I have to admit, the new park does look very nice. I hope the Mets have better luck there than they've had at Shea the last few years. But hey, they still did win two World Series and two other pennants. That's really not that bad for an expansion team.
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