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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The Eddie Kranepool Society: HERE WE ARE, WAVING GOOD-BYE AT THE STATION……..

Join Steve Keane in saying goodbye to Shea Stadium, popcorn-filled Mr. Met meg-a-phones...and $1,155 for 4 tickets. ( Musta killed him to sell off that Mr. Met Card Game for that...tis a shame)

I just gave the Skill Sets $1,155 for 4 tickets for each of the seven games of the “SHEA GOOD-BYE” package.

I bought this package out of sheer emotion and nothing to do with whom ever Omar gets to fortify the pitching staff this deal is between me, my wife and kids, and a tenement of a ball park.

I went to Shea with my late father and brothers back in 1964 when believe it or not Shea was a brand new state of the art stadium. Both Ebbits Field and the Polo Grounds were all brick and mortar structures from a bygone time. Shea was all steel and shiny with plenty of parking and access from all the suburbs where the white flight landed.

As a 6 year old kid who just started to fall in love with the concept of hitting and catching and hanging out with the leading men of family, Shea will always hold a big spot in my heart and soul. Sure I ##### and moan about the leaks in the over head pipes and the constrictive leg room in the seats and the world famous puddles of urine, beer and other bodily juices on the men’s room floors but still as much as I anticipate the opening day of $iti Field, the date the bulldozers knock down Shea will leave me weeping.

Repoz Posted: December 18, 2007 at 05:43 PM | 15 comment(s)
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   1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy  Posted: December 18, 2007 at 06:47 PM (#2649376)
As a 6 year old kid who just started to fall in love with the concept of hitting and catching and hanging out with the leading men of family, Shea will always hold a big spot in my heart and soul. Sure I ##### and moan about the leaks in the over head pipes and the constrictive leg room in the seats and the world famous puddles of urine, beer and other bodily juices on the men’s room floors but still as much as I anticipate the opening day of $iti Field, the date the bulldozers knock down Shea will leave me weeping.


I wont weep, but I understand how Keane feels.
   2. manchestermets  Posted: December 18, 2007 at 07:10 PM (#2649396)
   3. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..)  Posted: December 18, 2007 at 08:12 PM (#2649444)
Shea is right near a major airport and the first time I went there as an adult an incoming jet appeared to be on a line to crash into the opposing team's dugout. Fun times. Seems incredible they're not moving the new park out of the flight path.
   4. devo  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM (#2649650)
I'm a little teary-eyed.

I don't have the money to plunk down on that package, but here's hoping there'll still be normal tickets available for the last game at Shea. Even though I currently live in Ohio, I'm willing to pay an exorbitant amount for that ticket and I'll cheerfully complete the eighteen hour round trip to use it.
   5. Russlan wants Pedro to be a Met again  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 12:54 AM (#2649655)
Wagner, Heilman, Sanchez, Feliciano, Wise Schoeneweis, and Sosa with Smith and possibly Burgos helping later in the season.

Should be a solid pen.
   6. Bobby Bonilla's Annuity (Matt)  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 12:55 AM (#2649656)
Good signing. Actually, great signing.

I just want to get to one game at Shea so I can say goodbye.
   7. Russlan wants Pedro to be a Met again  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 12:57 AM (#2649658)
For 2 million, you can't complain but I'd like one more strikeout pitcher in the pen.
   8. Russlan wants Pedro to be a Met again  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 01:13 AM (#2649662)
It's actually 1.2 million, with onlt 750k guaranteed if he gets cut in the spring. The money doesn't matter but the nature of the contract suggest the Mets aren't going to hesitate to cut him if he's not over what ailed him last season.
   9. Benji  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 01:31 AM (#2649672)
We went to Shea in 1965 for the first time for a Dodger game, and for this eight year old, it was the most beautiful place I had ever seen! We went every year and it didn't get ugly to me til the late 70's, when the team sucked and that creep M. Donald wouldn't put a dime into it. It was like Yankee Stadium late 60's before the renovation. Every little league and ethnic organization in town had trips to Yankee games then, no matter how horrible they were, so we saw it's decrepit years. We kept going to Shea until 1990, when three drunks behind us made a doubleheader pure torture. I'll have to go this year to say goodbye to Big Shea and thank it for the memories.

Wise, well, he's better than Mota. The key to this bullpen is getting Sanchez and/or Padilla back.
   10. HowardMegdal  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 10:51 AM (#2649839)
It's actually 1.2 million, with onlt 750k guaranteed if he gets cut in the spring. The money doesn't matter but the nature of the contract suggest the Mets aren't going to hesitate to cut him if he's not over what ailed him last season.

This was welcome news. Now, to watch some early season and late season Wise tape to determine what happened...

Padilla was non-tendered- not sure he'll be invited to spring training.

As for the total pen,

Wagner/Heilman/Feliciano/Schoeneweis are certainties. Add an effective Wise, with Sanchez ideal and Smith/Sosa as fallback at the 6 spot, and use the loser of the Humber/Pelfrey derby for the fifth spot as the long man.
   11. HowardMegdal  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 10:53 AM (#2649840)
And regarding Shea, I will certainly be sad to see it go. Look, my first game ever was at Veterans Stadium, which everyone acknowledged made Shea look like a palace. And I was very upset when it imploded.
   12. Joe C and the Pop Culture Portmanteau  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 11:10 AM (#2649862)
Only a Mets fan could look back with any fondness on that sh*thole.

I don't say this because Mets fans have poor taste or anything; only because they are the only ones who could possibly have good memories of it, as any fan would with their team's ballpark. Were I a Mets fan, I'm sure I would be sad to see it go as well.

But seriously, what a horrendous stain of a stadium.
   13. Russlan wants Pedro to be a Met again  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 04:26 PM (#2650131)
Wagner/Heilman/Feliciano/Schoeneweis are certainties. Add an effective Wise, with Sanchez ideal and Smith/Sosa as fallback at the 6 spot, and use the loser of the Humber/Pelfrey derby for the fifth spot as the long man.

What do you do with Sosa? He'd be a decent enough swingman but the Mets don't seem to like using any of their relievers to make a spot start.
   14. Edmundo is Super Average Man  Posted: December 19, 2007 at 04:57 PM (#2650180)
my first game ever was at Veterans Stadium, which everyone acknowledged made Shea look like a palace
I was in the first event at the Vet, and it was beautiful (of course I was comparing it to Connie Mack/Shibe). I went to Shea in the early 90s -- it made the Vet look like a palace to me. Tough to say whose Men's room smelled better, though.
   15. HowardMegdal  Posted: December 20, 2007 at 11:37 AM (#2650699)
What do you do with Sosa? He'd be a decent enough swingman but the Mets don't seem to like using any of their relievers to make a spot start.

My gut feeling? Sanchez won't be ready, Smith should spend a year in AAA, and Sosa's your sixth guy. If Sanchez or Smith is lights out, however, no need for Sosa- I try and outright him to AAA. The loser of the fifth spot derby can spot start as long man, with Mulvey ready to take his place if he falters.
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