Shea Stadium is no more, RIP February 18, 2009

[BronxNYE206St]

Sad that Wilpon is more in love with the Dodgers history than his own teams. He had to have a replica of Ebbits Field to remind him of his childhood. True the new stadium is nicer than Shea but to me the Mets are not the same playing there. Shea was not the greatest park but it was home. It could have been renovated.

[DanMan770]

i can be heard saying good job guy @ 0:38

[sparks1504]

its a shame that citi field has 13,000 less seats then Shea did. Poor planning on the Wilpon's part to accomodate less of us....i never minded sitting in the upper deck at Shea. Now you'll be lucky if you get to see a half way decent game SRO at twice the price of an upper deck seat at Shea....Boooooo , very bad, maybe they'll add another deck ? :)

[slapshot68]

and its outta here!! lol

[o2hat]

Wow, I'm shocked it went so quickly. Figured it was going to take a lot longer than 5 months to demo that old place.. Those ramps always seemed so massive when you'd be climbing them to get to the upper decks. They looked kind of puney in the end.. RIP Shea, had a lot of good times there..

[dreyfus54]

sad

the mets jerseys look better in shea stadium

[poopycool]

RIP bud from the 69 world series to historic 86 buckner to 2006 endys catch and sadly even the calapse of the mets and now the calapse of u shea we will never forget -_ reserved in our memory forever_-

[007martini]

That's extremely depressing. It's now a reality. I will always call the new stadium Shea even though it's not the same.

[oapartyrock]

I can't believe it's actually gone.

Fuck you florida marlins and scott schoeneweis.

[Obelisk2290]

whats wrong with the Marlins i live in maimi and we just had the orange Bowl brought down, The Marlins play in Dolphin Stadium The dolphins used to be in the orange bowl and the dolphin stadium is the most antiseptic place ever Long live the Orange Bowl

[oapartyrock]

It wouldn't have been so sad if the fucking marlins hadn't cockblocked the Mets from the playoffs the last 2 years on the final day in Shea.

[Obelisk2290]

dont blame the Marlins you need to look at the mets for example the marlins payroll was 51 million vs 200 + for the yankees. There is a lesson that spending freely is not the answer especially in this economy, Anyway when i think of Shea I think beatles and grandfunk Rail road

[jmsurprenant]

Good bye Shea, thank you for the memories and the history... you'll be fondly remembered.

[MHLProductions]

RIP old friend.. a shame my children will never get to smell you .... ( also catch a depressing ball game )

[jesseinirio]

clean it up lolllllllllllllll

[metsgiantsrangers]

rip thanks for all the great moments shea <3

[NJTank]

You can hear NYMDan

[BiffMalibu21]

RIP old buddy

[MetsAreGood]

RIP :(

[jax12007]

yeah I don't see why people are cheering. Yeah Shea was a dump, but it was our dump and I'll miss it granted I'm only really enjoyed the last ten years there.

[drewfosho]

probably because they did a good job tearing it down assuming it was construction workers. no deaths. no damage to citifield.

maybe also because it's the start of a new era at citifield.

[sellitman]

It had to go and I am looking forward to Taxpayer Field but that was just downright sad to see. I am old enough to remember it being built. I was at Shea for the 5th and winning game in the 1969 World Series. Lot's of memories in that rubble.

RIP

[poinone]

i love ur comment bro good 2 no u was there at 69 world series i wasnt even born yet for both but im in a die hard fan take care bro peace lets go mets 09!!!!

[yuvals23]

thanks man

shea will be missed

[NYguy313]

Thanks for all the updates Will, good job. Sad day.

[willdathrill13]

I dont know why people were screaming "yeah!!" but whatever.. the demolition crew were all hugging and one guy even looked like he was going to cry. "40 yrs as a Mets fan" Thats what he said. I almost cried myself. Goodbye Ol' Girl, we will miss you!

[fanof41]

Well done, thank you!