Official Shea Stadium Countdown Tracker Thread

[stevejrogers]

Looks like the Mets really are taking a cue from FaFiF! Or at the very least the Cards when they counted down to the end of Busch Stadium II

So, here is the Official tracker of who lifts the number each game.

Date 4/8
Opponent Phillies
Number Removed Start of Countdown
Remover Family of William A. Shea

HOPEFULLY I'll be able to get this into a table format!

[Guest themetfairy]

The Phillies did the same thing with The Vet in 2003.

[Frayed Knot]

The Romans did the same with the Coliseum.
Nero peeled off number XXVI

[stevejrogers]

Date 4/9
Opponent Phillies
Number Removed 81
Remover Mr. Met, who actually made his live debut at Shea in 1964

[stevejrogers]

Date 4/10
Opponent Phillies
Number Removed 80
Remover Peter Spina and Kenneth Toscano from Lincoln Mercury, who are sponsors of the Countdown

[Guest AG/DC]

Fug.

[Guest AG/DC]

="SteveJRogers"]Looks like the Mets really are taking a cue from FaFiF! Or at the very least the Cards when they counted down to the end of Busch Stadium II So, here is the Official tracker of who lifts the number each game. Date 4/8 Opponent Phillies Number Removed 81 Remover Family of William A. Shea HOPEFULLY I'll be able to get this into a table format!

Fiath and fear in Flushing says... correct. The appropriate peelers for game 1 (or 81) are Kathy Shea Anfuso, Patricia Shea Ryan and Bill Shea, Jr.

[Guest AG/DC]

="SteveJRogers"]Date 4/9 Opponent Phillies Number Removed 80 Remover Mr. Met, who actually made his live debut at Shea in 1964

Faith and Fear says.... wrong. Al Jackson, first winning pitcher, come on down.

[Guest AG/DC]

="SteveJRogers"]Date 4/10 Opponent Phillies Number Removed79 Remover Peter Spina and Kenneth Toscano from Lincoln Mercury, who are sponsors of the Countdown

Faith and Fear says... wrong. Ron Hunt, first Met All-Star voted in and only Met to ever start an All Star Game at Shea Stadium, come on down.

[Valadius]

Steve, where are you getting your information?

[nymr83]

[stevejrogers]

Met Pregame notes on the MLB Press Box web portal

[stevejrogers]

[url:2bj7qrin]http://presspass.mlb.com/mediapp_teamselect.asp[/url:2bj7qrin]

[Valadius]

Steve is right. FaFiF did theirs just for fun.

[G-Fafif]

="Valadius":80fi7yc5]Steve is right. FaFiF did theirs just for fun.[/quote:80fi7yc5] Also out of love and respeck (yo). First series of the year: http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/3/19/3588772.html

SteveJRogers Apr 11 2008 02:58 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 11 2008 06:13 PM

Date 4/11 Opponent Brewers Number Removed 79 Remover Members of the New York Mets Kids Club Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I'm going to take a wild guess and say they were founded in 1978 or something like that.

AG/DC Apr 11 2008 03:02 PM

Hey, Mets. Is there a way to put this delicately but clearly? Jane Jarvis can't wait forever.

Kong76 Apr 11 2008 03:04 PM

What's she waiting for?

sharpie Apr 11 2008 03:06 PM

I'm available for number peeling. I did attend a game (my first baseball game) in 1964.

AG/DC Apr 11 2008 03:11 PM

="KC"]What's she waiting for? Well, I'm waiting for her to get a little resepect while she's still breathing, and a call to peel some numbers would be an appropriate step. And maybe she'll sit down at the keys for a little "96 Tears" action if she's up for it. For Game 78, Faith and Fear says, "Wrong: Bob Mandt and Pete Flynn are our boys."

SteveJRogers Apr 11 2008 03:22 PM

="AG/DC"] Well, I'm waiting for her to get a little resepect while she's still breathing, and a call to peel some numbers would be an appropriate step.

I forget what year it was, but they did trot her out for either an OTG or 69 Met reunion or a Metly anniversary thing, so they have given her respect through the years, no need to be Edgy about it.

[stevejrogers]

Date 4/11
Opponent Brewers
Number Removed 79
Remover Members of the New York Mets Kids Club
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I'm going to take a wild guess and say they were founded in 1978 or something like that.

[Guest AG/DC]

Hey, Mets. Is there a way to put this delicately but clearly? Jane Jarvis can't wait forever.

[Guest Kong76]

What's she waiting for?

[Guest sharpie]

I'm available for number peeling. I did attend a game (my first baseball game) in 1964.

[Guest AG/DC]

="KC"]What's she waiting for?

Well, I'm waiting for her to get a little resepect while she's still breathing, and a call to peel some numbers would be an appropriate step.

And maybe she'll sit down at the keys for a little "96 Tears" action if she's up for it.

For Game 78, Faith and Fear says, "Wrong: Bob Mandt and Pete Flynn are our boys."

[stevejrogers]

="AG/DC"]

Well, I'm waiting for her to get a little resepect while she's still breathing, and a call to peel some numbers would be an appropriate step.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Guest Kong76]

I guess I meant was there some significance to Jane not being #80, or #79
or whatever. There's still 75 odd games left, wouldn't being #3 or #1 be more
of an honor ... or is this list of who will be when already published and Sjeets is
just running his own countdown?

I'm sorry if these are dumb questions, I haven't been reading much.

[stevejrogers]

[stevejrogers]

[Guest AG/DC]

[G-Fafif]

Members of the Mets Kids Club is a nice symbolic nod toward the future, and one of them might grow up and say, "You know what I once did? I helped count down the final season at Shea Stadium." I was at one of my meetings of New York Baseball Giants nostalgists and dead-enders last night and if any of them had helped close down the Polo Grounds, I know they would hold it dear.

But what it does for the fans in the stands tonight -- just like what the Lincoln Mercury regional managers unveiling a number did for the fans last night, quid pro quo and all -- I don't know, though it certainly saves time and airfare for the Mets on thinking up and flying in special guests who have something to do with the history of Shea Stadium. Hell, I figured they'd mostly alternate between Howard Johnson and David Wright for five months.

Not a biggie in the course of a long season, but if you're going to do it, do it right (thus the Countdown Like It Oughta Be).

http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/3/20/3591341.html

[stevejrogers]

I wonder if they'll have Seaver pull 41 or will they save him for #1?

[nymr83]

="G-Fafif"]Members of the Mets Kids Club is a nice symbolic nod toward the future But what it does for the fans in the stands tonight -- just like what the Lincoln Mercury regional managers unveiling a number did for the fans last night, quid pro quo and all -- I don't know

Well having kids out there makes the fans not go "ughh who is that guy" the way some corporate sponsor might.

to steve- i'd use Seaver for 41, for the last game at shea i'd turn to the decendants of Joan Payson and William Shea.

[G-Fafif]

77 in real life: Some corporate tool from Citi. (OK, I can't guarantee he's a tool; might be a real fine fellow...but the Citi grim reaper given the honor of participating in the Shea countdown? Cringe.)

77 from the Faith and Fear Countdown Like It Oughta Be: Organist Jane Jarvis, songwriters Bill Katz and Ruth Roberts of "Meet The Mets" fame.