Don't Sell Cold Soda on a Cold Night

[G-Fafif]

Daily News football writer Gary Myers kicks ass, takes names and remembers his and Shea's youth:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2008/03/26/2008-03-26_its_hard_to_shea_goodbye.html?page=0

[metirish]

I read this today, great article and some great memories from Myers.

[G-Fafif]

I must be really Mets-cocooned, because the notion that there is, as Myers puts it, all this talk about YS and not enough about Shea, I'm thinking, "Yankee Stadium? Is that having a final season, too?"

[Guest AG/DC]

My friend Fabio was a Shea vendor in his summers. He'd get the cold drinks on the cold nights and the hot chocolates on the sweltering days. Almost made him hate the Mets.

Almost.

Edited March 26, 2008 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

My Flushing-raised brother-in-law vended as well. It is the reason he hates baseball.

[Fman99]

Great read, thanks for sharing.

[soupcan]

I vended at the Carrier Dome as an undergrad.

Similar experiences.

[Valadius]

My grandpa was a vendor at Yankee Stadium as a kid in I guess the early '30s. He sold scorecards among other things.

[Willets Point]

G-Fafif wrote: I must be really Mets-cocooned, because the notion that there is, as Myers puts it, all this talk about YS and not enough about Shea, I'm thinking, "Yankee Stadium? Is that having a final season, too?"

The final season at Yankees Stadium was in 1973.

[Guest metsfanbook]

That was a great article and I'm green with envy. Can you imagine not only being a vendor at Shea, but rounding up the players to appear on Kiner's Korner.

I drink cold soda on cold nights. What's weird about that?