MMO Fair or Foul: Mets Are Wallflowers?

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• trs86 January 20, 2012 at 11:16 am

  LOL, I was thinking the same thing. For anyone who thinks the signings this off-season were not motivated at least in part by money, they are selling the damn 2 year old wall for profit.
  • Joe D January 20, 2012 at 11:18 am

    It’s sad, it’s funny, it’s pathetic.
  • any January 20, 2012 at 11:25 am

    actually, did they ever say where the money was going? I know that some of these sales are earmarked for charity.
    • Joe D January 20, 2012 at 11:31 am

      That’s very true. I’m gonna shoot them an email and ask them.

      That reminds me, Dickey failed to hit his $100K goal for his charity climb. When he returned Tuesday, his first call to congratulate him was from Wilpon who also made a significant donation that gave Dickey the $100K he was shooting for. It was a nice gesture.
      • srt January 20, 2012 at 12:07 pm

        If there’s one thing I don’t think you can fault Fred for, it’s his charitable works. And for those cynical fans, it’s not always about the money. The 2 weeks following 9/11 where he made Shea available as a staging area for supplies, etc. didn’t net any tax write offs.
• any January 20, 2012 at 11:25 am

  Well, every team does this when they remodel. usually as part of a stadium/arena tear down, so on a much larger scale.

  What is the big deal? If anything, it is fan-friendly. Let people that are interested in a unique souvenier get one. or is it somehow classier to toss them in a dumpster?

  i also disagree that they are moving the walls to try and goose scoring, or sell tickets to see a HR derby. for one thing, no way they make back enough in ticket sales to offset the cost.

  Early on, they said they would evaluate how the park plays for a few years. Sandy reiterated this when he was hired. SO, it became apparent that the park played bigger than Shea did, to the extent that is seemed to be mentally messing with some hitters.

  makes perfect sense then to adjust the walls a modest amount, to essentially make it neutral (IOW, play like Shea). if they wanted to turn it into a band box like the Bronx or philly, they would have moved the walls in a hell of a lot more!

  and no, it seems that some people love to rag on the mets, even for perfectly normal activities.
  • Allyoop January 20, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    Fan friendly? At a starting point of $1000 bucks? You must be in better tax bracket than I am.
    Yes, I can hear the hallowed memories echoing off these 3 year old panels now. Give me a break!
    My first Met game was in 1963 at the Polo Grounds ($3.50 for box seats!) and my first game at Shea was a twinite DH against the Phillies (Mets lost both) on the Friday night before Jim Bunning tossed his perfect game on Fathers day. Both of those places have great memories for me, this is merely construction debris. Do something in the park before you try and sell me “a piece of history”!
• Alex68 January 20, 2012 at 12:01 pm

  This is getting sadder and sadder by the day..
• Mr North Jersey January 20, 2012 at 12:04 pm

  Check out the 1st comment in that Deadspin article.
• Trade Wright for Nolan Arenado January 20, 2012 at 12:19 pm

  Very similar to the Yanks auctioning off pieces of old Yankee Stadium. All those great Mets memories of historical Citifield. Put my down for a $6.00 bid on part of the Wheat Thin advertisement…just because I like the new Family Guy commercial. F-ing joke of an organization.
• theonlymaskman January 21, 2012 at 9:00 am

  There is no history or tradition in that wall. It belongs in a recycling facility to reduce it to chips for pressboard. Talk about a white elephant! Who would want that thing?