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In an editorial for the Journal News in Ohio, Hal McCoy leads by writing:
“There is a reason Shea Stadium’s mailing address is Flushing, N.Y. The place smells like a cesspool and, in fact, it is shaped like a toilet bowl.”
…actually, hal, it’s shaped like a toilet seat…not a bowl…
…if you’re going to be critical, get it right…
…also, Shea Stadium does not smell like a cesspool…instead, it smells of a unique combination of grilled sausage, jet fuel and day-old beer…which, oddly enough, no longer bothers me…
…hat tip to Baseballer for the link…
Silly me…I thought the mailing address was Flushing, NY because thats the town where the stadium is located…Kinda like the US Open tennis center.
Shea is a dump, cant wait to see it go…
Seperate note: Anyone know when they are going to call the game tonight. Hopefully they will not wait until people get there and pay for parking, buy beer and hotdogs then send us home
take a look at the radar…i’m no weather man but to me it looks like theyll be able to get it in
Long Island is covered in rain and will be probably until sometime late tonight.
I doubt they get the game in.
Does Pelf start tomorrow if it’s rained out. Or is he skipped?
geez just when i thought Pelfrey is bad… might end up getting OP instead if its tomor..
One distinct advantage of Shea over the Reds’ new stadium: it’s not in Cincinnati.
Also, it’s bigger than a breadbox…
Seriously…has this guy checked out Great American Ballpark in “downtown” Cincinnati? For a new stadium this place is atrocious. It is still a major upgrade over Shea, but it is an embarrassment compared to parks like Camden Yards, Jacobs Field, Coors Field, Miller Park, PetCo Park, Citizens Bank Park, and AT&T Field…which were mostly built before Great American. That doesn’t include Pittsburgh, Arizona, Seattle and Detroit which look much better on TV but I have never been to. Cincinnati is the “Shea Stadium” of US cities.
I have heard nothing but bad things about cincy’s ballpark.
Gotta say, I’ve been to Coors Field, Citizens Bank Park (unfortunately), AT&T Park, and PNC as far as new ballparks go. Coors Field is by far the best experience for an out of town fan. The fans there are friendly, the ballpark is gorgeous, the people that work there are nice. Citizens Bank Park is nice, but the people there are horrific.
I have to agree with you on Coors Field. It didn’t hurt that Matt Holiday hit a walk off home run against the Braves during the game I was at. I think PetCo and AT&T are nice than Coors Field, but I had a better overall experience at Coors.
Yea…I went to 2 games in 2006. Both laughers if i recall correctly. DW grand slam. I also went to one last year. Game 3 of the sweep in Colorado. That was pretty much rock bottom. No pun intended. Their fans were giving me crap, but they weren’t lowlives like in Philly.
Have never cheered for a team harder (other than the Mets) than I did for the Rockies in the post season last year. No wonder they lost.
I found Safeco to be a bit better than Coors. Petco is nice as well, and located right in the middle of a fun area. Great American is as bad as a new stadium can be. Plus, it’s in Cinci….ew.
I live near Philly and have been to Citizens Bank over 50 times if our new stadium plays like that one i’m going to jump in front of the wrecking ball. Don’t get me wrong Ashburn Ally is wonderful but i feel like im watching the home-rum derby everytime i’m there. Plus most of the fan look like they have wrestled with down-symdrom and just barley came out on top
Another advantage: The King of Queens is so much better than John from Cincinatti.
These writers are getting their Shea pot-shots in while they still can.
Was the pun intended?
“POT SHOTS while they still CAN”
yuk yuk yuk
Haha
Oh there definitely is some foul odor blowing out of the exhaust fans coming up the escalators……there is nothing grilled sausage/jet fuel/beer about that.
He’s not going to come up with any insults that Mets fans have already been using for years. Yeah, we’re one of the last teams to build a new stadium (excl. Wrigley and Dodger Stadium) but go back 10 or so years ago and you can say the same things about Riverfront, Fulton County, The Vet , etc.
I honestly, 100% do not notice any unusual odors at shea. maybe I need to have my sniffer checked.
Yeah I gotta say going to school in Newark I run across foul odors. At Shea I actually do not.
In an editorial for Billy’s Paper in Flushing, NY, Billy, age 5, leads by writing: “Hal McCoy is a doodie-head.” Later, he adds. “I like juiceboxes.”
Sorry, I felt obligated to post a rebuttal by a similarly talented writer from a simlarly relevant news outlet.
hahahahaha
That is an insult to Billy’s Paper
Shea is without question a less than stellar ballpark, but I’ve been going there for 36 years now, and as excited as I am about the new park, I am going to miss the old gal. (Though the place has not been the same since they took down those orange and blue corrugated metal squares from the exterior. What do you s’pose they did with those?)
I don’t care what anyone from out of town thinks.
That is strictly his opinion…I’m surprised he didn’t mention the chop shops!
you mean chop shops as in “guiseppe franco’s of beverly hills”?
Shea gets way more crap than it deserves - no, it’s not as nice as the newer parks, but I’ve never had a problem with going there to watch a game. I’m definitely looking forward to Citifield though.
It’s been a dump for years. Not the field, just the stands. I had water dripping on me on a sunny day. Still want to believe it was water…not urine.
Wow, a toilet joke about Flushing! Good one, Hal.
Is that what passes for originality in the Queen City these days? Oh, wait, does that make you a queen? Ha Ha Ha
I’m a transplanted New Yorker living in Columbus Ohio and let me tell you Cincy is no prize. You can smell the stench from the dirty Ohio River while in the ballpark. The park is nothing like the other new parks and should be called Average American Ballpark. The Reds announcer Marty Brenneman also rips on Shea all the time. Yes, its a little out of date Marty but so is that 1950 style hairdo you still have on your dome. And Hal McCoy should know all about dumps as he lives in dirty, crime invested Dayton and covers a baseball team in a city just as bad. Trust me people Cleveland is no longer the armpit of the Midwest, Cincy is.
Ouch..
im just glad i know how to reincarnate the smell of shea…on a hot day just pour beer on the ground outside and then come back an hour later and smell and you get good ole’ shea
At least Shea doesnt have that putrid smell of malaise and failure that you smell in Cincinnati.
In other news, Hal McCoy tells us that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning and that water is wet…
Seriously. Way to break some new ground there Hal.
Nothing original about him or the nasty area he resides in.
Wow, crapping on Hal. He is only one of the best baseball writers of all time. Too bad he has to cover a team like the Reds.
Quiet, Hal.
LOL. Good one. I’m a journalist, so I guess I’m sensitive when the media takes too much heat.
In fairness, I haven’t read anything he’s written and he may well be fantastic (perhaps even terrific fantastic, like Claudio Vargas). But I’m bored at work and since he was ripping on Shea, he was an easy mark. My guess is that most people here are doing the same thing. It’s kinda like making fun of your kid. It’s okay if you do it, but if someone else does it they’re gonna get a word or two back. Shea is like our kid. Our dirty, ugly, smelly kid. But our kid nonetheless.
The team Hal covers is crap.
No doubt it is, but he still is a great writer. The great writers always make it interesting to read about a crappy team and that’s what Hal does.
You’re a journalist? Are you talking about your blog “Met Fan in Chicago”?
Yes, Hal is such a great and thorough reporter that he writes they will be blowing up Shea and he wants to press the plunger.
Rudimentary jounalistic research would show that imploding buildings is illegal in NYC (see, hal, in NYC, unlike Cincy, there is the potential of other structures of value being nearby) and that Shea will be demolished the odl fashioned way, by wrecking balls, cranes, etc.
Somebody’s bitter about covering a craptastic team in an armpit of a minisule “city” in the middle of flyover country.