Update, 11:45 am:
David Lennon of Newsday reports, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon says the pitchers mound and the bases, including home plate, will be ‘immortalized in the parking lot.’
Update, 11:34 am:
According to William Valderrama, the last piece of Shea Stadium came down at 11:26 am EST.
Original Post:
In case you missed it, according to people on the job site, the last remaining piece of Shea Stadium may come down around noon today.
Twitter user, William Valderrama, aka Bluenautica, is at the site providing up to the minute photos, including the one below.
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yay, first to comment
Yay, first to call you a tool.
yay for everyone……
If their “star” SS cant stop thinking bout the Mets during there WS celebration. what makes you think an unemployed dirtbag from filthadelhia can stay away from this blog.
PhilliesRepeat09,
Philly will never be the city NY is. We even chose to throw out our garbage in Jerset rather than dump it in Philly.
I didn’t know that “Fez” was a Met fan.
I thought the same thing :)
And the Cancer of corporations has taken another stadium.
Goodbye Old Friend
Really though, Shea was malignant a long time ago, and required removal…
“According to William Valderrama, the last piece of Shea Stadium came down at 11:26 am EST”
I had no idea that Fez was a Mets fan..way to go!
LOL, Fez is Wilmer. Not William.
Therein lies the humor of ravi’s post, at least in my opinion, perhaps because I posted the same thing seconds earlier.
haha I didn’t even notice….Maybe if you went to same extra mile as I did, and included the quote from the post, you would have been a few seconds behind me!
“Yisgadal v’yiskadash shmei raba…”
That being said, RIP Shea. You were nice once but we’ve outgrown you. Time to make some new, hopefully better, memories.
dude, i’m laughing so hard in my office right now…hold on…just had to close my door.
oy vey
hey fellas, im not even a phillies fan. im just “johan4cy” posed as onejust to see a reaction. got’cha
You you were a troll posing as a troll?
ha ha ha h aha ha ah
The other day you were taking pride in “writing like an adult” and were worried that you might have lost some credibility because someone “outed” you as a kid. You didn’t lose any credibility then, but now…
R I P….
David Lennon of Newsday reports, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon says the pitchers mound and the bases, including home plate, will be ‘immortalized in the parking lot.’
Why not also mark the spots where some of the memorable moments in Mets history occured? Like the spot where Endy made the catch, Buckner missed the grounder or where Cleon Jones caught the final out of the 1969 world series? Maybe even place some small statues to honor those moments. There is plenty of parking space at Shea. I dont think taking up a few spots to mark these moments would take up much space.
Oh wait I forgot, the Wilpons care more about displaying Brooklyn Dodger history
i like the sentiment, but there is not plenty of parking at shea.
I don’t think those status would last very long in a parking lot in Queens.
“statues” that is
Haha, that’s true. They could at least have marked the spots with numbers and then had a display put up near the apple explaining what occured at each number. Gives some of the fans with standing room only seats something extra to do during a game.
Im just happy they are going to have the bases and mound out there….I know right where Im parking this season!
You can find me sliding into home and tearing my jeans, double-fisting and not spilling a drop.
thanks for the memories shea..RIP
somewhere chip just shead a tear
From Wikipedia:
William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea (IPA: [ʃeɪ̪]), was a stadium located in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park.[2] It was the home baseball park of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets from 1964 to 2008. Originally built as a multi-purpose stadium, Shea was also the home of the New York Jets football team until 1983. It was completely demolished to furnish additional parking for the adjacent Citi Field, under construction to replace Shea in 2009.
yeah, they update very quickly
amazing, isn’t it? in my top three favorites websites.
so creepy and weird to read about shea in the past tense. Like not believing someone’s dead til you visit the grave.
Absolutely. That first “was” struck a tragic chord, and I’m the “Gravedigger.”
I hope the Mets PR department was smart enough to film it coming down.
I hope they weren’t all in Florida getting sun tans.
If the last piece of Shea falling is NOT the opening moments of the 2009 Met season DVD, a whole bunch of people should lose their jobs.
Well, if the DVD ends with an image of David Wright holding up the Comissioner’s Trophy, all will be forgiven.
I was hoping that my post implied that ending, but I didn’t want to actually write it for fear of being banned as a jinx. Kudos for your courage. :-)
LOL – that’s why I said Commissioner’s Trophy and not the W and S words.
there were two staff members of the production dept. filming the whole thing today. so be happy. or be sad…..to see it go. :(
My condolences to myself and anybody else here that “gets it”.
i’ve been there four times this winter, twice this past weekend and taken hundreds of pictures and yet this still hurts
I just drove my the site. I got there at 11:36. Ten minutes too late.
It was quite upsetting to be smacked with the reality that shea is gone.
I was glad that no one was on my tail so I could look at the site from the drivers side window as I went down roosevelt.
While the place was in a coma for 4.5 months…seeing that last plume of dust hit me hard.
Shea is gone and that last remnant of childhood is gone.
While Citifield looks neat, it lacks allure that shea had.
I try to say goodbye and I choke
I try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, it’s clear
My world crumbles when you are not near
well alrightyyyy then… ms. gray
anyone else get an eerie feeling looking at those photos of the spot Shea used to be with nothing there?
by the way – i was watching MLB Network last night – the Hot Stove show – Turns out Larry wasn’t the only one to name a kid after Shea. Barry Larkin says he gave one of his daughters the middle name “T’shea” after the stadium, where he said he had a lot of great moments and memories. (Never hear about Mets players naming their kids after her though…)
I heard Larkin say that, so since I couldn’t remember him lighting up the Mets I went to baseball-reference to see what his career numbers were against them. Nothing really special. The only thing that stood out was that he stole more bases in his career against the Mets than any other team except for the Pirates.
I guess it’s a testament to us, the fans, that he would do that?
I was also surprised that Matt Vasgersian the host seemed genuinely down about Shea falling.
I’ll miss looking out my mother’s kitchen window and seeing Shea. There was something about seeing the Big Blue Stadium with the Neon Players that I’ll never forget. That and going to the roof to see the fireworks from Shea.
I don’t really know what to say or feel. I’m usually pretty even keel on the street at home or at work. I usually dont get too high or too low. At Shea, I experienced some of the strongest feelings in my life. Jumping up and down and screaming until i didn’t have a voice — and completely breaking down with my head in my hat.
I’m sure that i’ll enjoy Citi next year and ill have some fun there. Truth is, I fit perfectly fine into my seat at Shea and it doesn’t make much difference when I watch the game I guess. I went to Shea yesterday and took some pictures of the last remaining stump and there was a lot of people out there doing the same.
I wonder if in 45-50 years we’ll care as much when Citi gets destroyed?
Hey Mr. Kowalski! A tough day!
Shea no more….
And kowalski69: If I’m still alive in 45-50 years I’ll consider that an accomplishment and will welcome any feelings I have about Citi coming down….
Signed: someone who was around when Shea opened in 1964….
Some last thoughts:
1. I hope someone would have taken photos/Video of the last piece hitting the ground
2. Im glad that the bases/ Mound etc will be marked on the parking lot. I asked months ago for it. Many stadiums have that in ther lot.
3. Statues of Seaver, Piazza need to be put up ala Pittsburgh, Philly and other plavces
4. We need a Rusty’s BBQ pit ala Boogs Balt near the stadium walkway
“Mets COO Jeff Wilpon says the pitchers mound and the bases, including home plate, will be ‘immortalized in the parking lot.’”
I can just see Ollie on his first home pitching a$$ignment standing on the Shea pitcher’s mound and asking out loud what happened to the ballpark.
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