I was fortunate enough to be at a Mets – Cards doubleheader in 1999- in the middle of McGwire’s steroid facilitated tear and the hayday of the Mets – Braves rivalry. I was fortunate because Mike Piazza crushed two home runs and John Olerud won the game in the 8th with a grand slam, and believe me, the whole stadium shook. It was pretty incredible.
I also had the misfortune of being at one of those quintessential Mets-blowing-the-lead-after-a- brilliantly-pitched-game by Johan Santana this year.
I’ve been to tons of games between all those memories, but the point is they’ve all been great times spent with friends and family – which I believe to be just about the most important aspect of life – and what the stadium looks like just doesn’t factor into that at all. So I loved the ugly dump in Flushing, despite the aesthetic flaws and failing infrastructure.
Now we look forward to Citi Field, which will certainly be state of the art, and the franchise can feel like it has a park to rival all the other new flashy parks. And it does look good; with the retro, almost Ebbets field look it will certainly resonate with long time residents of NY – especially those lucky enough and who have lived long enough to have seen a Brooklyn Dodgers game. It is truly a shame that many of these people won’t be able to afford to see the Mets at their new ballpark now, in all it’s modern glory. Let’s hope that the $600,000,000.00 ball park will last longer than the measly 44 years Shea did.
Thanks to Rob, and U-Melt’s manager Jason Greenberg for getting this together so quickly. And don’t forget to enter our quirky Gig Used Gear contest to win a batch of stuff from tonight’s concert.
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