Its the end...For Shea

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Coming in 2009:

Another step closer to reality

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nym/ballpark/newpark_overview.jsp

Countdown to Shea's finale can be started

[Frayed Knot]

Pitcher Friendly:
Pitcher Friendly: Distinctive asymmetrical outfield walls, along with generous dimensions (LF - 335'; LC - 379'; CF - 408'; RC - 391'; RF - 300') make for a traditional pitcher's park.


RF = 300' ?!?!?!?!

[Guest cooby]

I just can't find it in my heart to consider this a happy occasion

[metsmarathon]

big high wall, with integrated pesky pole?

edit: what the little bitty scaled down ballpark in the extreme northeast corner? could that be a pool of some sort? perhaps for cranes...

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm guessing that 300' is for the right field line, not right field proper.

]• Wider seats provide enhanced comfort throughout the venue while more space between the rows allows for improved legroom.

Fear not. We've heard your requests. We've seen your asses.

[Willets Point]

I think that's KC in the Beltran jersey.

[MFS62]

I wonder if those plans have been submitted to MLB for their approval.
MLB rules state that any new ballpark must ahve fould line distances of st least 330 feet.
They would need a waiver from MLB to build it this way, no matter how high that wall is in right field.

And "exposed iron work". That should could get rusty real fast. Sounds like a lifetime annuity for the local painter's union.

Later

[Guest cooby]

That's kinda neat how they got that picture of those people there before it's been built

[MFS62]

cooby wrote: That's kinda neat how they got that picture of those people there before it's been built

Consider it a deja vu preview. You have to see it before you can deja it.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

cooby wrote: I just can't find it in my heart to consider this a happy occasion

I'm with you cooby.

[Guest KC]

Something missing from the story, I should be elated. We all should on
some level. I just can't find the level right now.

[metirish]

]I just can't find it in my heart to consider this a happy occasion

I agree, as people say, Shea is a dump but it's our dump.

[Guest holychicken]

I am excited.

The only thing that scared me was during the conference when asked about the name the response was something like "shea probably won't be in the name, we are currently marketing for a naming partner."

*shutter*

[Benjamin Grimm]

Potential ballpark naming partners:

http://www.sheahomes.com/

http://www.shea-online.org/

[Farmer Ted]

Home plate will be located near the site of the infamous Fire of 1999. The result of some jerkoff using charcoal at his tailgate party and putting the grill UNDER the car to cool down before heading into Shea. That was a pleasant smell while sitting in the leftfield loge.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Your wife hasn't let you forget it, has she?

[Elster88]

Is there going to be a dome?

To be nostalgiac about a dump is ridiculous. Bring on the new park.

[Guest old original jb]

This ballpark seems kind of generic. It's another PetcoCamdenThe BallparkAtYourCityHereNowThrowbackYards. While an improvement over past generic ballparks, this is to the 90's and 00's as 3RiverVeteransMemorialRiverfrontMadeforfootballandbaseballArtificalTurf Stadium was to the 70's.

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

My stadium was better.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y209/FlynnHagerty/NewMetstadium.jpg

edit: forgot how big that thing was, I'll just link to it instead

[Elster88]

One problem: Bret would piss on that Piazza statue.

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

Elster88 wrote: One problem: Bret would piss on that Piazza statue.

Not coincidentally, Bob Murphy Field at Tom Seaver Stadium would buck the current trend towards individual urinals with good ol' troughs made out of American steel!

[Guest Edgy DC]

]To be nostalgiac about a dump is ridiculous

So much to learn, this paduan.

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: ]To be nostalgiac about a dump is ridiculous So much to learn, this paduan.

I've got great memories of Shea. I'll be sad to see it go.

But I also don't hold on to the past at the expense of the future.

You older Jedi Masters have to learn to adjust to the new and better.

And I'm a Knight, not a Paduwan.

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

If they're going to get rid of Shea, I hope they mark where the pitcher's mound is, where 1B is, where Tom Agee made the catch that ended the 1969 World Series and so on. Atlanta did a good job of this:

http://terraservice.net/image.aspx?T=4&S=10&Z=16&X=3709&Y=18681&W=1

[Guest old original jb]

I'd like a ballpark that makes more explicit reference to the Mets and Shea stadium, with only a passing nod to Ebbetts Field.

One more thing: a stadium that refers mainly to Ebbetts Field built in the middle of a large lot in Queens makes no contextual sense whatsoever.
The architectural/spatial fabric of the two locations are completely different.

[Gwreck]

The 300' to right field I think is a typo.

According to the "side by side comparison" chart (also on Mets.com) right field is 330'.

[Guest Edgy DC]

HUGE YUPS TO DR. JB!

[Guest 86-Dreamer]

="Frayed Knot"]Pitcher Friendly: Pitcher Friendly: Distinctive asymmetrical outfield walls, along with generous dimensions (LF - 335'; LC - 379'; CF - 408'; RC - 391'; RF - 300') make for a traditional pitcher's park. RF = 300' ?!?!?!?!

I wonder if the 300 is a misprint. At the bottom of this page it says RF will be 330 feet:

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nym/ballpark/newpark_comparison.jsp

[Willets Point]

Is there an echo in here?

[Guest abogdan]

At least they're keeping the scenic views of the chop shops.

Shea's a dump. I'll miss it, of course, but I also miss my first apartment. And that place was a dump.

So will parking be affected this season? What will they do for the next three years to make up for all those lost spots?