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Right, the guy next to you is DGW. I believe Bubba and JCL are in the back too.

KB is popping over the shoulders in the back row. Not sure who tall guy is, it's

not Diamond Dad. I'm pretty sure I've not had that much of a beard since then...


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Holy moly! Hard to make some people out, but you get the gist. Year?



The Blue Tarp Lounge:



https://thecranepool.net/images/bluetarplounge.png>


Yep, that's me wearing the Binghamton Mets Hat. Mrs. DGW is holding littlest DGW who has long since graduated college and has been working as a photographer for a company that holds dance competitions all over the country. Even worse is our oldest (in the blue with pink cuffs) who is now 30, and a vet tech in S.C. I'm guessing this is 2002?


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I miss the old girl...



https://live.staticflickr.com/3010/2754917853_7c735eacb8_k.jpg>


Hey, holy smokes! First dgw posts in about two years!


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https://twitter.com/nut_history/status/1621136664289771529

I've always loved this picture


Koufax, whose career ended before GTS's began and as Gibson's was just starting to crank up, is the lone survivor in that shot.

Turned 87 a few weeks back (and can probably still bring it).


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One of my favorites from many moons ago now. I had read in the Sunday

paper (remember those?) that the final piece of The Ol' Girl was going down

that Monday so we took a ride out for a final farewell.



https://thecranepool.net/images/SheaGoodbye.png>


Me and Lefty Jr were there that day too. Sunday, January 31st, 2009. It was cold as hell but there was a nice crowd considering.



Jr decided to clamber on top of a debris pile and start singing 'Meet the Mets' and the crowd joined in. A photographer from the Times was there and took this pic. The concerned-looking guy in the back right with the wool cap is yours truly. I was afraid he was going to faceplant into the parking lot. But he didn't.



https://imgpile.com/images/dXq7DM.png>



The photographer said, "If we don't use the picture in the paper I'll e-mail it to you." And sure enough, he did. The next day there was a nice little article in the Times about the farewell, and there were the two of us on the debris pile, only this time viewed from behind with the last bits of the stadium still standing. Still have the clipping.



https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/nyregion/01shea.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/nyregion/01shea.html


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That's cool. I didn't see any crowds late morning, but I didn't do a full 360°

of the wreckage. Thanks for the date confirmation and the NYT link.


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=kcmets post_id=118131 time=1676152829 user_id=53]He was the whole shabang, no-ceiling kinda guy... but...

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Edgy MD wrote:

That desperate tone at the end is great.




Right? "Anyway they have Casey" what was said after that I would love to know..... "And not much else"


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