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In a post to The 10 Spot Blog for SI.com, Pete McEntegart lists 10 
reasons why Shea Stadium is better than Yankee Stadium, while questioning why Yankee is getting more fanfare in its final season than Shea.
…if the Yankees get more coverage, it isn’t going to make me tear up any less when Shea Stadium gets torn down…if reporters and pop culture are more obsessed with the ground that Babe Ruth stood upon, i can understand…however, i am far more interested in the ground that Tom Seaver and Jesse Orosco stood upon…to each his own…
i like #1
this comment does not concern this poster but I will say for all 78% of you who voted no to not booing at Shea Stadium, your all a bunch of filthy liars…you make me sick!
easy buddy, it’s just a game
i know it just bothers me knowing that we really have so dumb met fans who have no clue….
Rob Lowe–How is your nanny?
shes good thanks for asking lolol
i would need some video evidence to corroborate that, sir
Just last night I was thinking for the first time that I just may actually miss Shea. It has a certain look and feel on TV that will never be duplicated by a new ballpark. The blues in the outfield and darkness beyond the outfield walls. I don’t know. I’m certainly not going to miss Shea when I get to the ballpark next year, but I just may miss Shea when watching on TV, which I do for about 160 games a year.
*Obviously, I mean’t 80 games a year!
*meant – boy, I need to focus here.
Boooooooooooooo…. sorry that was just handed to me on a silver platter
SHEA will be missed, but CITI is going to be a clean, and beautiful place
I definitely deserved that!
regardless of how much we like citi, not seeing the familiar confines of shea is going to feel strange for several years at least. probably moreso on TV than live.
Number 2 was hysterical. I’ve always wondered about the locale of the stadium while travelling through it.
Is it true that there will be a bar/club on every level in citi field??
Well said Matt.
Shea will be missed. It still had the intimacy of the old ball parks. It’s not a generic mix of concrete and bricks built into a structure. Its built as a home for the Shea faithful. I love it!
AND, if I may, Marv (and the folks above)…
CITIFIELD WILL NOT HAVE THE PEOPLE. Games at Citifield will cost more and accommodate less. We’re losing about 10,000 seats (yes, I know there will be standing room for another 4000).
I recognize that Shea is outdated and replete with sightline issues. I just don’t like taking the actual community around the stadium out of the equation. I was at the game on Tuesday* and the $5 ticket price brought out a bunch of Queens families and kids that sat through the night chill until the end of a 6-0 game. Personally speaking, those folks always made me proud of Shea and our home team, and that’s why accepting the inevitable is going to take a while, personally speaking.
*I did not boo Heilman.**
**I gave Milledge hell every single time, though.
Exteriorhedisonmouse,
After seeing the sea of empty seats at last night’s game….I really don’t see how people can complain about the reduced capacity at Citi. Games like last night which look half-empty at Shea and lack any dynamic atmosphere will seem like a nearly full stadium at Citi, with a great feel.
Since being exiled to the West Coast, I have seen the Mets at Safeco, Petco, AT&T, and Chase. Trust me, the more intimate parks are a huge improvement over Shea.
agree. and when you talk about crowd noise as a factor during playoff time (a common issue among those with a problem with the decreased capacity), the red sox don’t seem to have a problem with creating a wild, loud environment come playoff time with fenway, which has a capacity just under 40,000.
Agreed with the above posts. Just over 46,000 at Shea last night. I realize there are games (subway series, playoffs) when you could sell 80,000 tickets, but nights like last night are hard to argue against reduced capacity. You don’t build the church for just Easter Sunday…
couldn’t agree more. I went to Johan’s first start at Shea last Saturday, on what was a beautiful Saturday, and despite the announced sellout, the stadium was no more than 80% full, which means there were about 10,000 empty seats, or, exactly how many we’re losing at Citi.
Shea sells out and fills up for Opening Day, Yankees games, and the occasional late-in-the-season game against a division rival we’re battling for the playoffs. That’s it. For the other 72 games, the place is half dead. Why do we need those extra 10,000 seats for a handful of games? You will have no problem getting upper deck seats at the new stadium, or using stubhub to buy tickets to most games for a reasonable price. Citi’s gonna be a great field, now let’s stop bitching about it.
Amen, And the 46,000 announced last night was, of course, just the sold tix, not the turnstiles. Looked more like 30,000-35,000
One thing has been annoying me about all the attention paid to Yankee Stadium: They tore the place down in the early 1970s. The “renovation” was basically tearing down the stadium and rebuilding it on the same spot. So yes they are moving off of this sacred ground but this is really not the original Yankee Stadium where the likes of Ruth, DiMaggio, Gehrig and Mantle played.
it’s the house that Reggie Jackson…….. rented…….
well, why not take it one step further? not only is yankee stadium not the original yankee stadium, the yankees themselves are not an original NY team! the team started out in baltimore (as the orioles) in the early 1900s. the yanks are not even a true NY team for crying out loud!
Nicely done!
no, they were the new york highlanders.
Booo the truth!!!!!
beltran the warrior, yes they were the highlanders AFTER they were the baltimore orioles.
Baltimore Orioles in 1901-02, then moved to NY and became the Highlanders in ‘03, re-named the Yankees in ‘13, built Yankee Stadium I in 1923, closed Yankee Stadium I in 1974, MASSIVELY renovated the structure, leaving only parts of the exterior unchanged, re-opened Yankee Stadium II in 1976, building and will move into Yankee Stadium III in 2009
I’m going to miss the bird’s eye view of Laguardia as the planes swoop overhead and the twinkling lights of Queens shimmer in the hot summer night.
wrong. they were the new york highlanders.
Right. AFTER they moved to NY from Baltimore. Look it up…
why are you so sure of yourself when you are incorrect?
He’s not incorrect. The Baltimore Orioles (John McGraw managed them in 1901 and 1902) moved to New York in 1903 as the Highlanders.
See http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/
I think casey was replying to beltran the warrior’s post, not mine. Thanks for having my back, though! ;)
yes, i was replying to beltran. i was actually the first one in the thread to mention that the yanks started in b-more.
and, thanks bkdrew, for having my back!
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beltran finally hits a homer and then he takes the next day off? any reason for the day off other than just a day off?
stiff neck
oh. hadn’t heard that. here we go.
He 88.72%
he needed a day off anyway. it’s nothing.
LOL, well played, gip.
i’m sure you’re right. thanks for sourcing that.
I’m suprised Castillo is playing. This seems like a perfect time for him to get that rest he claims he needs.
well, with beltran out, we need his pop…um, wait, i mean his switch-hittedness.