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Touching farewell to Shea Stadium marred by another playoff costing final game los...
Yes, despite the great Gooden and Strawberry on hand to usher a last farewell to the ugliest stadium in all of baseball, the Mets lost 4-2, to lose out on the last playoff spot in the NL. Yes, despite the great Gooden and Strawberry on hand to usher a last farewell to the ugliest stadium in all of baseball, the Mets lost... more
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Mets Say Goodbye to Shea Stadium and the Playoffs
Doomed by a dreadful bullpen that failed them again Sunday, the New York Mets completed their second consecutive September slide with a 4-2 loss to Florida that knocked them out of playoff contention in the final game at Shea Stadium. Doomed by a dreadful bullpen that failed them again Sunday, the New York Mets completed their second consecutive September slide with ... more
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Take home pairs of Shea stadium seats selling for $869 a pair!!! Yay!
This is the price for seats from dumpy Shea Stadium... Just imagine what the cost of seats at Yankee Stadium will be going for...
$869 is the starting price for a pair in a season ticket holder pre-sale...
Expect that price to go way, way up when they hit the open market...
A lot of great moments have taken place at the ugly stadium we know as Shea, in the town called Flushing....
Oh, forgot, nary a Mets fan in this crowd...
Umm... so in everyone-one-else-here-speak, remember when the Beatles played their first North American concert in 1965?? It's that venue...
So if you're coincidentally a Mets season ticket holder, you can get your pair of ugly blue chairs for $869...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Blue-Loge-Shea-Stadium-Pair-of-Seat...
Otherwise, they can be had at the eBay it now price of $1999!!!
Yay? This is the price for seats from dumpy Shea Stadium... Just imagine what the cost of seats at Yankee Stadium will be going for... ... more -
Slip N' Slide at Mets vs. Rangers
The best part of baseball... besides the hot dogs.
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New York Mets fire manager Willie Randolph
Willie Randolph is out as manager of the New York Mets, fired 21/2 months into a disappointing season that has followed the team's colossal collapse last September.
Bench coach Jerry Manuel takes over on an interim basis for Randolph, who led the Mets to within one win of the 2006 World Series. They got off to a strong start again last year but plummeted down the stretch and have been unable to rebound.
A preseason favorite to win the NL pennant, the $138 million Mets (34-35) had won two in a row when Randolph was let go early Tuesday morning -- making him the first major league manager to get fired this season.
Pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto also were fired in an enormous overhaul that came at a stunning time -- about two hours after New York's 9-6 victory at the Los Angeles Angels. Willie Randolph is out as manager of the New York Mets, fired 21/2 months into a disappointing season that has followed the team'... more -
Willie Randolph, Mets manager is FIRED!
It had to happen but the Mets chose a horrible way to do it. They made Randolph fly out to California with the team anyway. They won their game in convincing fashion and then they fired him in the wee hours of the morning after the WIN. A news release came out at 3:15 announcing it. Unbelievable!!! It had to happen but the Mets chose a horrible way to do it. They made Randolph fly out to California with the team anyway. They won t... more
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The greatest catcher we've ever had the privilege to see play Mike Piazza ann...
Truly one of the greatest hitting catchers in baseball has officially hung up his spikes, getting victimized by Clemens, hitting more home runs than any catcher in history, carrying the Mets throughout the late '90s and early 2000's... Truly one of the greatest hitting catchers in baseball has officially hung up his spikes, getting victimized by Clemens, hitting more ... more
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Shea Stadium's smoke free final season a problem for Braves manager Bobby Cox
But apparently Bobby Cox is OK with the ban? Or is he?
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Yankees Cursed this Season?
A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks.
The culprit is a mason - born and raised in the Country Club section of southeast Bronx.
"As I stuck it in, I said, 'The Yankees are done for the next 30 years.' I only put a 30-year curse because I'm 46 and in 30 years I'll be dead, and I won't care if the Yankees win then," said "Gino," who spoke from a construction job in Manhattan. A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what w... more -
Final Opening Day at Shea Stadium gets Rickrolled and subsequently booed...
An online contest to choose a new singalong song at Mets home games attracted thousands of pranksters who flooded the team's Web site to vote for a Rick Astley tune.
The glory that will go with the last ever opening day at Shea Stadium went with a blast... or ∫"Never gonna give you up... never gonna let you down..."∫
http://blogs.trb.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/
Give the Mets credit for playing it, too, although the public address announcer essentially explained how they got punked. He told the 56,000 people here they were "Rick-rolled."
As the song played, Mets fans booed. An online contest to choose a new singalong song at Mets home games attracted thousands of pranksters who flooded the team's Web ... more -
The New York Mets refuse to get Rick Rolled
In a shameful move the New York Mets have decided to opt against playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the clear winner in their online fan vote to determine what song would replace Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” as the new eighth-inning sing-along tune.
The Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up” received over 5 million fan votes from sites like Digg.com and won by an overwhelming margin but as NY Daily News reporter Adam Rubin says The Mets didn’t care about your vote.
“Rather than commit to that as the new eighth-inning song since it probably doesn’t reflect the fan base’s wishes, the Mets will play the top six selections once apiece during the first six games of their home stand. The one that draws the largest crowd response will stick.
If you would like to protest The Mets terrible terrible terrible PR decision to deny Rick Astley and our worthy internet votes you can contact:
Jay Horwitz, Vice President, Media Relations
New York Mets
718-565-4330; jhorwitz@nymets.com
or
Billy Harner
Media Relations Coordinator
bharner@nymets.com
It takes only minutes to do and if enough people follow though maybe The Mets will choose to be fair and include Rick Astley in the applause vote. In a shameful move the New York Mets have decided to opt against playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the clear winner in ... more -
Pedro Martinez to miss 4 to 6 weeks... after recent injury
Yes, another injury for Pedro... Not good news for the Mets. Good thing they totally shelled out for Johan...
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Pedro Martinez wants all you doubters to know that he dominated and he did it clea...
Yes... with everyone doubting the accomplishments of everyone in baseball following the Clemens and Bonds hooplah, Pedro has announced that he did it clean.
He won three Cy Young Awards...
He truly did dominate, and we should laud his accomplishments,
Not everyone can win 3 Cy Youngs, a World Series, and throw Don Zimmer in their career.
AND he carries a midget in his entourage!!
I know many who see a baseball posting on here, jump out to be total "haters..."
But Pedro is a true role model...
"I have a small frame and when I hurt all I could do was take a couple of Aleve or Advil, a cup of coffee and a little mango and an egg -- and let it go!"
Typing this was painful, I will go take my Aleve-Advil-coffee-mango-egg power shake... Yes... with everyone doubting the accomplishments of everyone in baseball following the Clemens and Bonds hooplah, Pedro has announced... more -
PETA outraged over Pedro-gate... and decides to bother MLB
It might seem a bit of the stretch for PETA to demand MLB force all of MLB to take animal sensitivity training...
But PETA doing what they do best, bothering other people over the actions of one individual... for their feathered friends... It might seem a bit of the stretch for PETA to demand MLB force all of MLB to take animal sensitivity training... ... more -
Kirk Radomski sentenced 5 years probation for his role in supplying juice to playe...
5 years probabtion was the lightened sentence for "cooperating" with Mitchell.
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Say it ain't so Pedro... Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal caught at cock figh...
Someone posted a video of future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal (He's the greatest pitcher in San Francisco Giants history if you didn't know that) and Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez (the greatest pitcher in Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox history, if you didn't know that) together having a ball at a cockfight in the Dominican.
Though now YouTube has taken the videos of our heroes at this event offline... Someone posted a video of future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal (He's the greatest pitcher in San Francisco Giants history if you di... more -
Santana, Santana, Santana, but what about Carlos Gomez, Phil Humber and Kevin Mulv...
Carlos Gomez voices his take on sports media's sensationalist coverage on Santana going to the Mets.
He has a point.
The four prospects the Twins got in return for Santana... coupled with the addition of Delmon Young and Brandon Harris...
Young, Harris, Pridie, Jones, Gomez, Humber, Mulvey, Guerra...
With Liriano, Neshek, Baker, Tolbert.
to go along with the core of Mauer, Morneau, and Cuddyer...
It's hard not to be excited about what the Twins have gotten together for the next few years. Carlos Gomez voices his take on sports media's sensationalist coverage on Santana going to the Mets. He has a point. ... more -
300 game winner Tom Glavine contemplates what if, he chose hockey instead of baseb...
In 1984, Glavine, was drafted in the 4th Round just ahead of Brett Hull and Luc Robataille.
NHL.com went and hunted down Glavine to ask him just what if he were to have chosen hockey instead of baseball.
I'm sure all of Atlanta is glad he chose baseball. In 1984, Glavine, was drafted in the 4th Round just ahead of Brett Hull and Luc Robataille. ... more -
Is the new Citi Field honoring the Brooklyn Dodgers more than it is the Mets?
Shea Stadium was notorious for being one of the eyesores of baseball architecture.
But there is a lot of history with that goofy big apple rising up, the worst bleacher situation in all of all baseball and did I mention Shea was an eyesore?
But is it right that Citi Field design-wise honors the Dodgers more so than the Mets?
(They probably honor the old Dodger legacy more than the actual Dodgers franchise does- we have dense post-O'Malley ownerships to thank for that)
The Mets were a franchise awarded to New York after the Dodgers and Giants bolted for the west.
But the thing was, the Giants were Manhattan's gem, and the Dodgers were Brooklyn's but too close to the Bronx.
Queens/Long Island thus became Mets territory... Shea Stadium was notorious for being one of the eyesores of baseball architecture. ... more -
Logic seeps in and Mets back out of offering Yorvit Torrealba $14.4 million!
I feel bad Yorvit will not cash in the Wilpon ownership's silliness...
The Mets gave him the old, "You thought we were serious? Ha ha! we got you Yorvit!"
and retract their offer...
The Mets front office played a mean prank on Yorvit... I feel bad Yorvit will not cash in the Wilpon ownership's silliness... ... more
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