calling any Shea Stadium experts...

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mcd1400de · #1 Post by **mcd1400de** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:49 pm

So I'm bringing the kids up to NYC for this Saturday's Mets game. We've never been to Shea, and being the total stadium geek that I am, I wanted to get there at least once before it disappears.

So any of you out there who are veterans of the place, any tips on tickets? Which seats are (relatively) good values, and which ones to avoid? The whole place is a little pricey, at least compared to CBP in Philly, but seeing as this will probably be our only visit, I'm willing to spend a little more... if it's worth it.

I'm temporarily "sitting" on some seats in sec. 244, row A (outer field box, in the lower deck). But I can also come up with first row seats in the infield in the uppermost level, for considerably less. Just wondering whether the lower level seats are worth the difference in price.

Manyy thanks for any assistance!

goongas · #2 Post by **goongas** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:04 pm

Just to warn you, if you are used to CBP, you are going to think Shea is a dump...

ToLiveIsToFly · #3 Post by **ToLiveIsToFly** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:48 pm

goongas wrote:Just to warn you, if you are used to CBP, you are going to think Shea is a dump...

Hell, compared to the Vet, Shea's a dump.

moonie · #4 Post by **moonie** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:14 am

Shea Stadium provides mucho memories for moi.

Marc

In the old days, you could grease the usher's palms and get to the lower field boxes after the 5th inning. Dont know if thats still a viable thing now.

Also, I hear they have $25 tickets same day or on the website. Check that out too.

I will be going in August for the last time there. I will bring a camera. Yeah, it may be a dump, but it provided many memories for me, and remember, it was built in 1964 and reminds you of what the World's Fair was like ( I was there too, but in a striped shirt that matched my younger brother).

minimetoo26 · #5 Post by **minimetoo26** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:17 am

I can run it by my husband, who was born in Flushing and makes annual return pilgrimages to watch the Mets lose. Many of them, actually. He goes about 4 or 5 times a year. And we don't even live in NY.

Yeah, the place is a dump, but it's as old as I am, and I could use a little sprucing up myself. We're going last weekend in June (I think) to say our farewells. Usually, we go to the park next door to grab a hot dog and beer at real-world prices before entering the stadium and paying MLB price.

My late f-i-l was a crane operator, and he worked on the Yankee Stadium renovation, so we have one of the bleacher benches and a clock from either a concourse or a tunnel of the old stadium. But we don't have any more relatives in "the business," so I won't end up with any of the old dripping urinals or whatever from Shea. Thank goodness...

John Rocker · #6 Post by **John Rocker** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:46 am

It's a &*$#@# dump! A goddamn crumbling, delapidated, fleabag, piss-stained, ^*(^#@( dump!

If you really want to accentuate the Shea experience, ride the &#*(@ subway too. You'll need a Prozac enema by the time the evening's over....

Bob Juch · #7 Post by **Bob Juch** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:33 am

You'll have a nice new stadium to visit next year.

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Snaxx · #8 Post by **Snaxx** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:51 pm

Unexpectedly strong T-storms caused this game to be delayed, and then rained out. They actually will have one of those old single-admission doubleheaders tomorrow!

mcd1400de · #9 Post by **mcd1400de** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:30 pm

jacorbett70 wrote:Unexpectedly strong T-storms caused this game to be delayed, and then rained out. They actually will have one of those old single-admission doubleheaders tomorrow!

Yeah. Great. The irony is, I'd narrowed it down to last night and today as the only two days we could make it (before my son ships out to the Army next week). And I figured that the night game would be more pleasant, given the very hot weather we'd been having, and were expected to keep having. So yesterday it's pouring most of the afternoon and evening, while today it's dead perfect out.... and with two games for the price of one, and Pedro on the mound. This when I had opted to get field seats, so to be in prime foul ball territory.

Then to add insult to injury -- I thought, "well, at least we'll get back home much earlier than expected." So we get to Penn Station and stake out perfect seats on a NJTransit express train. Except that a few minutes after the scheduled departure, they announce they are having electrical problems, and that everyone should proceed in an orderly fashion to another, later local train. Which, because it was packed, was also delayed about a half hour by our stop... and a full hour after we would have gotten there on the express. Or in other words, only about 15 minutes earlier than we probably would have if the game had proceeded normally. Ah well. At least we got to explore Shea for a while before the torrents came. And I got to spend some "quality" time with the kids... even if most it of was spent on a train, subway, or ducking raindrops at the stadium.

In the end, however...? I'm just glad that today has turned out to be a good one. While sitting in the bowels of Shea last night waiting for the rain to stop, I was getting some serious deja vu of the last time I tried to go to a baseball game in New York, awhile back. That one was at Yankee Stadium, also with a HoF-caliber & former BoSox pitcher starting for the home team -- in that case, Clemens -- and it too was rained out after a couple hours of waiting. We thought about trying to go that next night instead, but decided to hold off.... which in the end, didn't matter either way. Because the date of that rainout...? 9/10/2001.

Thanks to those who offered their advice.

Snaxx · #10 Post by **Snaxx** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:58 pm

mcd1400de wrote:In the end, however...? I'm just glad that today has turned out to be a good one. While sitting in the bowels of Shea last night waiting for the rain to stop, I was getting some serious deja vu of the last time I tried to go to a baseball game in New York, awhile back. That one was at Yankee Stadium, also with a HoF-caliber & former BoSox pitcher starting for the home team -- in that case, Clemens -- and it too was rained out after a couple hours of waiting. We thought about trying to go that next night instead, but decided to hold off.... which in the end, didn't matter either way. Because the date of that rainout...? 9/10/2001.

Thanks to those who offered their advice.

I was at that 9/10/2001 rainout too.