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On Wednesday, I started making posts about my Five Favorite Moments at Shea Stadium, from games that I attended. To see Number 5, click here. I will post Number 3 later today, Number 2 tomorrow, and 
Number 1 on Sunday, which is the final regular season game.
In addition, each post will be followed by a quick video segment of me talking about the moment.
I hope you enjoy them, and feel free to share your favorite memories in each post as well.
Darryl Strawberry was made life electric when he stepped to the plate. When he came to bat in the ‘80’s, the lines would immediately thin out, the halls would become less full and I’d drop everything, no matter how close to the cashier, and scurry to the railing to see him bat.
On July 3, 1990, I abandoned an attempt to buy a pretzel and fled through the tunnel to see Strawberry hit against Xavier Hernandez. The ball sprung from his bat and slammed into the scoreboard, shattering an innocent light-bulb, which remained busted for more than a decade, and was only recently replaced. To me, the busted bulb represented Strawberry’s career: so many bulbs, and too few at-bats to knock them all out.
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No video of the actual game footage? too bad…
The lines would thin out? Yeah because Darry snorted them..lol
YOU and Darryl snorted them.
Not Me. Look, I love Darryl but that was way to easy to write after I read it..
he said you and Darryl because of your name “Doc Good”
Got It! Thanks. I was a little slow on that one..lol
Nice.
ba dum cha
*think drums*
they the veal
don’t forget to tip your waitress
One problem here everyone:
The Mets won the game 12-0, and were never “trailing in late innings”. Straw did indeed hit a homer off Hernandez, but it was when the Mets were already up 6-0.
Fair enough, but what’s more real, the way a website reported the facts of the game, or the way it was remembered and recounted?
Did the Babe call his shot?
Never let the facts get in the way of a good lightbulb story.
Exactly! Without a good story, baseball would be just a bat and ball game you played until you were 15, not a heartbreaking and breathtaking game of failure and redemption.
All I can think about is tonights game status. Anyone care to speculate about the likelyhoodd of a game? Slim to none?
My all time Shea moment:
I wish I knew the date ,but y’all know the game. 1999 playoffs against the Giants. Extra Inning game. Benny Agbayani was tearing the cover off the ball all day long, without a hit. He steps to the plate, and I lean to my dad and say, “Benny is due the way he’s been hitting the ball. He’s gonna hit one out right now and end this game.” Sure enough, he blasts it left centerfield and we all go ballistic. It’s the first and only time I can claim actually calling a home run, and a walk off no less.
Oh, and my buddy who came to the game with us left the park an inning earlier cause he was late for a meeting downtown. Too bad, Pete.
That was a great one.
If I had to rank my favorite moments…
1) Mets beat John Rocker in the ‘99 NLCS (was that game 5?)
2) 2000 World Series game 3 (only one I went to)
3) Darryl knocking that light bulb out. Stuck with me forever, as I was 5 years old.
4) Benny’s walkoff.
5) Beltran’s walkoff homer in the 16th against the Phils.
Sorry, it was in 2000 against SF!
haha…it’s all good. my all time favorite mets moment is game 1 in arizona in 1999. masato yoshii defeats (and outpitches) randy johnson. haha.
Oh, man! I vivdly remember the crowd cries of YOSHII! YoshII! That year. I thought I’d never hear that name again.
I will always remember the size of the crowd, the buzz and electric in the air and then that eeire quiet as Jimmy Qualls’ hit touched the ground…slowly, like in the Rudy movie, applause turned into on of the hugest, most bittersweet ovations in Shea history for our favorite son, then and now!
I hope Sunday there are plenty of old timers in the upper decks (General Admission as we used to call them) and they tear their Daily News into shreads for one more old fashion Shea blizzard!
God bless the NY Mets and their fans; BELIEVE!
turned into one of…
sorry
It’s overcast in lower manhattan. really hoping it holds off a bit. maybe we can capitalize off some momentum from last night.