faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 1/2/2009
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2008 was the final season for Shea Stadium. 2009 is the first season for CitiField. A little over three months from now, the 2009 Mets will find their positions on the field, a batter for the Boston Red Sox will walk to the plate, and from then on Citi will no longer be the stuff of ...
amazinavenue.com - 1/7/2009
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amazinavenue.com —
Citi Field opens for real in three months,
but I feel like we still know very little...
about it aside from its aesthetics. Dimensionally, we know it'll sport a similar configuration to Shea Stadium, with some variably higher walls and the odd geometric ...
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Citi Field: Where Homeruns Go To Die
theropolitans.com - 1/9/2009
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theropolitans.com —
January 8 --- The 'Ropolitans: To compliment the
fact that Shea Stadium had a fairly large feral...
cat population, a stray dog was found at Citi Field; animal control officers were led on a rainy romp through the stadium after construction workers said she spent several days sniffing around...
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METS: Found the new Citi Field mascot...
theropolitans.com - 1/4/2009
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theropolitans.com —
I can't tell if the people behind this
are Mets fans making fun of the lack of...
memories at Shea Stadium, if they're fans of another team grinding salt in the wound or if they're just bad at what they do. Watch this video
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This is just stupid
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Rewriting Met History At Citi Field?
Loge 13 —
... January 5th. Lots of stuff still available, from the obscure (Diamond Club check presenter. Price: $105. # of bidders: 4) to the sacred (Casey Stengel's retired number from left field. Price: $2,500. # of bidders: 1). I have no problem with the Mets selling off stuff to charity and letting fans get a piece of their favorite stadium along the way. But all season long we wondered: what is coming to Citi Field? Beyond the Home Run Apple replica? Jason over at Faith & Fear in Flushing wrote up a great post musing on this same subject. One ...
Would Fred & Jeff Rather Own The Dodgers?
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... uses an anonymous source’s description of the Mets’ new offices to amplify another party’s implication that the Wilpons aren’t particularly romantic when it comes to their own team’s history. ...
Change of a Different Kind
The Ballclub —
... Assumedly, and given the attitude of Fabulous Freddie and the Boy-King, Change, for the Mets fan, could very well mean abandoning the rich history and culture we developed over the 45 seasons at Shea Stadium. Change, in moving to Citi Field, would mean adopting a new way of life, where the past is given a faint nod, but it's not our past. It's someone else's past. And it's not the past that we want to remember, it's the past they want us to remember. Mets history has sometimes been dotted with moments when it was ...
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metspolice.com 2/12/2009 — So it's being reported that the last parts of Shea should fall to the ground either Friday or Monday, Anyone who has seen it recently can clearly see that the end of the old broad is near (let's face it, she was never a lady). I drive past Shea every day on my way to and from work. I have ...
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metspolice.com 2/13/2009 — On Wednesday morning I drove through the city. First I came down the Deegan and saw the two Yankee Stadiums. I'm sure I'll come to love New New Yankee, but it seems completely useless right now with a perfect stadium right next to it. Then I looped around and approached Shea from the south ...
Maybe We Don't Need That Home Run Apple in Citi Field
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theballclub.blogspot.com 2/18/2009 — This was my final glimpse of Shea Stadium, as I left on September 28th, 2008. I, like others, did not return to the Shea site after that date. I did, however, diligently follow the destruction of Shea, piece by piece, through sites like Stadiumpage.com , and the work of people like citi_field ...
