There Used to be a Scoreboard Here

[G-Fafif]

At Baseball Fever, a spectacular picture of the scoreboard just before it came down. Two old Bud ads (one very old) and the space where the projection screen used to sit.

And Shea without a scoreboard (which the Mets surely didn't need anyway given their run production the last weekend).

[Benjamin Grimm]

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What's that little building with the red roof on the lower right? Is it the skeleton of the clubhouse shop?

[A Boy Named Seo]

What's the green leaf for on the upper deck?

[Guest themetfairy]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: What's the green leaf for on the upper deck?

The New York City Parks Department. It's their property.

[Gwreck]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What's that little building with the red roof on the lower right? Is it the skeleton of the clubhouse shop?

Subway token booth. Build this at the beginning of this year after they tore down the subway rotunda.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Huh. I went to Shea three times this year and walked right past that spot each time and never noticed it.

[Guest Kong76]

Seo: What's the green leaf for on the upper deck? <<<

NYC Parks Dept logo:

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I just wanna hurl and hurl.

[seawolf17]

themetfairy wrote: The New York City Parks Department. It's their property.

[meigray] I'm going to have to disagree with you there. [/meigray]

[Farmer Ted]

Fucking brutal.

[Guest Kong76]

I'm in Sheaisgone denial.

There, I said it.

[stevejrogers]

I for one find it amazing that all these years the backing of that thing was just a canvas and it never was repainted



Kind of strange to see the old, original backing of that scoreboard with Shea as it looked in its final years.

[Farmer Ted]

Damn bulldozer in the middle of the field. Show some fucking respect.

[bmfc1]

How did all these workers and their machinery get in place so fast? Theoretically, the Mets could still be playing so they couldn't have scheduled the work in advance for these dates. It's as if they knew the Mets would screw it up and they were ready to go.

[soupcan]

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[G-Fafif]

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Rome has fallen.

[Willets Point]

[Centerfield]

Don't look anymore. Remember her when she looked her best. Take a moment to reflect next time you go out there. But let her go with dignity. No need to have her pictures broadcast everywhere looking the way she does.

[Guest AG/DC]

I disagree. By action or inaction, we have a hand in this. Turning away is to divest ourselves of the result.

Either you triumphed in your advocacy for this or failed in your resisitance. But this is yours and this is mine.

[Guest Iubitul]

I feel like I've been punched in the gut...

[Centerfield]

AG/DC wrote: I disagree. By action or inaction, we have a hand in this. Turning away is to divest ourselves of the result. Either you triumphed in your advocacy for this or failed in your resisitance. But this is yours and this is mine.

A hand in what? How they take down Shea?

[Guest AG/DC]

That they take down Shea.

[Centerfield]

You want them to demolish it rather than pick apart piece by piece?

[Guest AG/DC]

I want them to put it back together.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think, as a fan, you can voice your displeasure by not allowing the Mets to profit from destroying the building by buying the peices back from them at obscene multiples of their worth.

The Wilpons have to be in real estate heaven. Not only are they being paid to build a lucrative new building, they are being paid to destroy a less profitable one.

[Guest AG/DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think, as a fan, you can voice your displeasure by not allowing the Mets to profit from destroying the building by buying the peices back from them at obscene multiples of their worth.

Done. Oh, believe me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

For me, this is a nose/face thing.

I'd rather have the memento than send the message.

[Frayed Knot]

Jeffie on FAN tonight:

- sod at the new joint in the next 2 weeks or so

- the structure of Shea itself won't start getting razed for 2 or 3 months

- restaurants in CitiField for weddings, meetings, etc. will start some time this winter. Those will only be used for reserved affairs until (and if) the Willets Point section gets redeveloped and there's enough consumer traffic to to open them for use 365

[Guest AG/DC]

Picnic bleachers go

[Willets Point]

The picnic bleachers always had an air of impermanence to them.

I'm surprised they weren't given/sold to a high school.