Building Shea Stadium, Home of the Mets

[fore3113]

tearing down Shea Stadium made the Mets bad. I'm a Yankees fan that absolutely hates the Mets but I know they were a better team when they played at Shea Stadium.

[GreatAdventureRT3]

Citi Field suck Shea rocks!!!!!!!

[SHEMEANzEVRyTHANG2ME]

why the fuck did they tear it down ?!

[ComPavel]

you're not alone ! Citi doesn't have enough seats that the REAL fan can afford. Also, Citi will never get as loud as Shea did!

[pacmanghostx]

The new stadiums aren't boring... It is true that Citi Field is part of a recent trend in ballpark architecture (the "neoclassical" park), but so was Shea (the "dual-use" park).

For this reason, Shea, while not being that bad for football, had horrible sightlines for baseball... It's a night and day difference when compared to Citi.

Also, it makes sense to have about 13,000 less seats, as Citi is usually packed, but Shea always had about 10,000 empty seats.

And this is coming from a Met fan.

[SiriusMined]

@pacmanghostx

Citifield is a complete piece of shit. I've been a Mets fan since 1975, and I loved Shea.

Citifield is a monument to the corporatization of baseball.

[xabat77]

Shea was a dump, but it was our dump. At least they avoided that ghastly cookie cutter trend of the 60s-70s that fully enclosed the park.

Lets not forget, at the time when it was built, people considered Shea to be "futuristic" and all those cookie cutters took their cues from Shea which was the first stadium designed with both baseball and football in mind. While in the end it was vilfied for this dual-mode design, at the time it was cutting edge.

[pacmanghostx]

Well, technically, it WAS a cookie-cutter park, as it was designed to be fully enclosed (even though it wasn't)... The fact that it wasn't fully enclosed actually beared the issue of fans being far from the field, as the same amount of seats found in a stadium that was a closed circle was found in the open-circle Shea... This is why the upper deck was higher up than average. Actually, if they "completed" Shea, it would have had over 90,000 seats.

Also, RFK was the first dual-use stadium...

[usisguy]

Thanks iamzeroedin, i will take your word for it. Wrigley was built almost 100years ago. I believe it fits 40,000.

[fourptsixliter]

Highway Dept. Chairman Robert Moses picked out the site of Shea in the 50's and had the stadium plans drawn up for the Dodgers, but the Dodgers owner Walter O'Maley wanted to stay in Brooklyn.

[usisguy]

Shea Stadium was a dump I was there many times Good Bye and Good Ridens, Yankee Stadium was classic especially before the renovation in 1973

[Intelpentium54321]

everyone has there own opinion I think fenway is a dump and the record for having the sell out record should be banned

[usisguy]

Well then I though Fenway was probably the best Park to watch a game and I sat in the bleachers.Shea when I checked in the loge section behind home plate you could not even see center field-the book Green Cathdrals metions it also.

[iamzeroedin]

You think Shea is a dump? ha..go to Wrigley Field.

[usisguy]

Really, Wrigley is that bad?

[iamzeroedin]

It's very bad. The seating is also very uncomfortable. You'd have to go to understand.

[hezikiah777]

It may be a dump...but's it's OUR DUMP..BACK THE F--- OFF of OUR HOUSE!!!

[k3304]

they should have called it Pidgeon Poop Park

[thunderstruck665]

My favorite was always "The Flushing Toilet Bowl."

[k3304]

Go Phillies !!

let the Mets choke again !!

[p9p8333]

The Phillies are just awful. Why would you want them back in the playoffs? To get swept again? Pathetic.

[dknights411]

lol. Phillies just won the world series!

[1370wlop]

NYC SUCKS

[thunderstruck665]

I think YOU suck.

[1370wlop]

goodbye Shea! Buggy muggy and smells like a urinal applied to Atlanta Fulton Co. Shitty ditty and smells like a smitty applies to Shea. Good Riddance.

[RAMSASS]

shea stadium whould have been dodgers home