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.

[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?