It Was Benny Years Ago Today

[G-Fafif]

Matthew Callan slides over from his Scratchbomb blog to recreate the 2000 season for Amazin' Avenue. His recollection of Game 3 of the NLDS, 10/7/2000, will give you as many chills as there were innings that Saturday afternoon/evening/night. Read it here.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow! That means it's been ten years since the last time I conceived a child.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ellis Burks in the house.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Great stuff there, including an appearance by 2008-2009 Met Ramon Martinez.

[ashie62]

I was there..bitter cold and increasingly so by the inning. It felt like neither team could score..but then..

[metirish]

What a read, great memories, ten years, wow..

[Guest themetfairy]

My best birthday home run ever

[HahnSolo]

My second favorite day at Shea, following game 6.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Reading the "Benny game" piece (I was there) made me wonder: When did Shea shake the most? Which game? And how could we even form an opinion without being at every big game?

[HahnSolo]

Attended Game 6 (section 3 of upper deck); and the Benny game (loge box in RF near the auxiliary scoreboard). It felt louder at the Benny game, but i think that was because I was seated lower. Both games were ridiculously loud, though.

[batmagadanleadoff]

From that era, the three Shea-kingest games I attended were the Benny game, the Todd Pratt game, and the grand slam single game. I'd say that Pratt's HR shook up Shea more than Benny or Ventura. But I'm not certain.

[Guest themetfairy]

Not a game, but the place was totally rocking during the first Billy Joel concert (i.e., the Penultimate Play at Shea).

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hopefully it won't be too long before the Mets do something extraordinary at Citi Field so we can see how loud the new place can get.

[ashie62]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Reading the "Benny game" piece (I was there) made me wonder: When did Shea shake the most? Which game? And how could we even form an opinion without being at every big game?

Shaking? For me.

1. Todd Pratt walkoff game
2. Benny walkoff
3. Ventura GSS (many had gone home.)

[Willets Point]

The Steve Henderson Game.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The walkoffs have it beat, but EndyCatch was pretty damn upper-deck-rattling.

[seawolf17]

Brad Clontz's wild pitch was the shakingest I ever experienced.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pratt.

Zeile's bases-clearing hit in Game 5 vs. the Cardinals. Everyone on both teams and in the stands knew we were WS bound at that very moment. Very Sheaky.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Did Shea get shakier as it got older? I was there in person for some big happenings back in the 1980's, but not since then. I remember experiencing noise, but not really the shaking. I do remember getting the sense of Shea shaking a lot while watching on TV in 1999 and 2000 though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shook like a leaf on a tree for the Police in 1983.

[G-Fafif]

When the Mets made with double after double in Game 4 of the 2000 NLCS is when I honestly thought there was a chance Shea would crumble. Perhaps it was my location in the UD boxes that made it feel so precarious. Oh well, I reasoned, if I have to go, this is the way I'd want to go.

Didn't necessarily quiver as much in the Upper Deck for Game 1 of the 2006 NLDS, but it was never louder in my experience -- before during and at the conclusion. The double tag Lo Duca laid on Kent and Drew definitely didn't hurt.

The Field Level felt very trampoliney twice to my recollection, both in the waning days: first show of Billy Joel's Last Play at Shea (the one that wasn't the last) and, for whatever reason, a five-run rally a month later against the Braves. It was a big game, but it wasn't THAT big.

[Gwreck]

I was in the front row of the UD for Reyes' leadoff home run against the Cardinals in Game 6 of the NLCS in 06 and actually had to grab the rail in front of me as I was concerned for my safety.

The NLCS Game 4 ('00) and Division Series Game 1 ('06) also strike me as the two loudest in my memory.