Shea Lives!

[Guest Edgy DC]

The late lamented (by me, anyhow) stadium lives on in stock photo afterlife promoting Animal Planet's "Puppy Bowl":



Acting as the home of the mythical NCAA Division I championship game:



And hosting the crew from Real Sports:



Credit to the Mets Police blog.

Probably the same source photo for all three.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That didn't take long.



You want Shea to look like the home of the Yankees? Some evil photoshopper anticipated that with this alternative print:

[seawolf17]

You know, for the supposed "ugliest stadium in the history of professional sports" (*)...

(*) This exaggerated claim may or may not have been made by alleged sportswriters near the time of the stadium's demise.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The reality is that its the second photo to appear at istockphoto.com when you search for "stadium," and the first panoramic shot to appear, so it's more a matter of being lazy.

It doesn't appear shen you search for "shea" + "stadium," so whoever uploaded it didn't know what he or she had, but among the five hits you do get for that combination is this beauty:

[bmfc1]

Nice work, Edgy. These photos are a nice tribute to Shea.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yahoo Sports, showing the world the real meaning of "stadium."

https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.src=ym

[G-Fafif]

Was watching Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks this weekend, cognizant that a brief scene was set at Shea when it still existed as a going entity. I knew it was coming, yet when it showed up in living Shea color...it was a happier moment than anything I've watched on TV in the way of a Mets home game these past two seasons.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Sammy Sosa's 3rHR off Yoshii on Merengue Night!

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Sammy Sosa's 3rHR off Yoshii on Merengue Night!

Is that what was unfolding in the background? I couldn't make it out. I was at that game -- we won, despite the sop to the Cubs fan demographic.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Oh yes. I've told this story lots of times here, but you'll recall it was a sellout that night.

My brother and I arrived at the park ticketless and were trying to scalp by Gate E when of all weird things our cousin who was working on the film in the park that evening spotted us from the concourse, where he musta gone to get a smoke. He scrounged up a few passes identifying us as film crew, and placed us in seats they'd temporarily cleared so as to get the shot (between home and first on field level). Essentially we were cast as extras.

The shot was from early in the game because they had only so much light. The Mets made a great comeback!

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Oh yes. I've told this story lots of times here, but you'll recall it was a sellout that night. My brother and I arrived at the park ticketless and were trying to scalp by Gate E when of all weird things our cousin who was working on the film in the park that evening spotted us from the concourse, where he musta gone to get a smoke. He scrounged up a few passes identifying us as film crew, and placed us in seats they'd temporarily cleared so as to get the shot (between home and first on field level). Essentially we were cast as extras. The shot was from early in the game because they had only so much light. The Mets made a great comeback!

Outstanding story I'd somehow missed, and I swear I was marveling that they caught the early-evening, early-inning light when I watched (and rewound it six times) this weekend. My guess, as I squinted, was they were playing the Rockies.