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Shea Memories – September 27, 2000

Fourteen years before this game I was at Shea Stadium on the night the Mets clinched the Eastern Division title.  Now I was there to witness them clinch . . . the Wild Card.  Not nearly as exciting,...

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Shea Memories – September 30, 2000

For the first time in my life I got to enjoy a “meaningless” baseball game.  The Mets had alrady clinched a wild card spot, and so for the first time in three years they played a few games that really...

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Shea Memories – October 25, 2000

Oh yeah.  This game. I guess I should consider myself fortunate to have gone to not just one, but two World Series games in my life.  So in that respect, I am not quite justified in bitching about this...

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Shea Memories – May 19, 2001

This one’s going to be a quickie because, frankly, there’s not much to say about this one.  In fact, I forgot I even went to this game until I perused the game logs for 2001 and the painful memory was...

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Shea Memories – September 23, 2001

Given the context of when this game was played, it is absurd to still feel bitter about this game. But it atill stings. It was my first trip home to New York after moving to DC.  More importantly, it...

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Shea Memories – April 1, 2002

I’m already dreading the 2012 season.  Before the 1992 season, the Mets engaged in a buying spree that many thought would result in a championship.  The result was, instead, the worst team that money...

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Shea Memories – April 19, 2003

This would be my last trip to Shea for more than two years – the longest stretch of time between games since I started attending games, and it is something of a miracle that I ever came back.  This was...

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Shea Memories – June 10, 2005

How did one man continually get stuck watching games started by sub-par Japanese imports?  Two years away from Shea and my reward is Kaz bleeping Ishii. I was back in town for my ten-year high school...

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Shea Memories – A Time to Forget

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You want it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo, Forget...

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The Final (?) Shea Memory – July 9, 2008

It was a rainy night, but I decided to trek out to Shea one last time (perhaps).  I purchased 8 seats in the mezzanine behind home plate, underneath the overhang.  Sure we had an obstructed view of all...

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