They ruined a great day. The last day at Shea. All those great old Mets in attendance.

Fuck those 5 guys and that PIECE OF SHIT Omar Minaya. It's all his fucking fault signing every Tom, Dick and Pedro, who shows up for winter ball in Central fucking America.

I still disagree with you about Minaya. He made some bad moves, but has made many good moves.

Open up the vault, and get CC here.

Well, that's why I edited my post to delete the death wish.

He has done more good than bad, but the bad has been monumentally bad.

Me, you and Don Cardi at Citi Field for next year's opener?

Sounds great, but right now it's tough to think about next year. I'm also very depressed about Shea's death.

I'm tempted to order a pair of seats.

I wonder if Manuel will be back?

I think that the Mets should give him another shot. When they originally named him interm manager, I wasn't that thrilled. But in truth the guy did a great job turning the team around, getting them to respond to him, and doing the job that he did with that sorry ass excuse of a pitching staff.

As for Maniya, I think that he is the one who deserves the boot. not a f**king 4 year extension. This team collapsed two years in a row under him. Yeah, he did go out and get Johan in the off season, but he did absolutely nothing by the trade deadline this year to try and bolster an already anemic pitching staff.

I say give Jerry a few months into next season and tell Omar to find a job somewhere else.

On another note, Delgado definitely should win comback player of the year.




Don't even get me started Lou. I've been depressed all day about this. A lot of great memories there for me.

My grandfather used to have season tickets to the Mets and he, my dad, my uncle, (who was also my Godfather) and I would go to the games all of the time. I have so many memories of going to so many games with the three of them.

Great memories...great times.

My dad, my grandfather and my uncle all passed away and now that Shea is going to be torn down it's as though this is really a finality for me in regards to all the great memories that I had of going to Shea with the three of them.

I'll never forget the time that I met. talked to and got an autograph from my favorite Met, Tommy Agee. I still have the baseball card that he autographed that day for me. I was probably about 8 years old.

The other event that I will always remember was going to Tom Seaver Day at Shea. He was my other all time favorite Met.

We were given a lithograph of Seaver that day and about a month later I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Terrific and getting that Litho of him autographed.

But I will never forget the great times that I had as a kid with my dad, my grandfather and my uncle at Shes Stadium.

I'm really going to miss the old stadium.


RIP Shea Stadium!

I'm glad a got to a few games down the stretch.

Wow, I'm REALLY surprised the Mets didn't make the postseason 2 years in a row now. Hopefully they get K-Rod in the offseason because their bullpen needs a MAJOR overhaul

My Dad watched the post game "Goodbye Shea" ceremony with us.

He says to me, half kiddingly, "They should've suited up Jesse Orosco or Johnny Franco today, being that they were at Shea anyway."

They're both about 50 now, but I guarantee they would've given us more than the bums we have in the bullpen now.

Next year, I want to need a program whenever someone comes in from the Mets' bullpen. I don't want to know who any of them are.

I say give Jerry Manuel a 1 year extension. He seemed to have given this team some new life. Let's see how he does from the first game of a season. The players seem to want to play for him. If I were Mets managment I would try to trade Beltran this off season. I would try to put some kind of package together for CC Sabathia. You would have a great one two punch with him and Santana.

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CC is a free agent after this season, so if they throw enough money at him, they can sign him but I think the Yankees will outbid anyone (just a personal opinion)

CC has said he wants to play in NL, because he want to bat. We'll see how true it is.

I've heard that too. Let's see how well money talks

The Mets should look to sign Mike Mussina from the Yankees. He's a free agent after this season.

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No thanks.

Why not? He dominated this year in the American leauge. Imagine what he would do in the National Leauge faceing all those pitchers.
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Manuel deserves to be back. When he took over, the team was like the walking dead. He brought them back to life. It's not his fault that Minaya couldn't pull the trigger on a reliever or an outfielder.

Omar: "Outfielders are just so expensive."

Two days later, the Yanks stole Xavier Nady.

Why didn't Omar try to get Nady back? If fucking Duaner Sanchez (an Omar disciple) didn't go out on a 3am yayo run two years ago in Miami, we never would have had to trade him in the first place.

But knowing Omar, he would have traded him anyway. Probably for another 45 year old Cuban pitcher and a bucket of balls.

Yeah, right!

I agree. Learn from the Yankees mistakes, DON'T sign past-their prime veterans

He's 40 years old. No thanks.

Absolutely. Two years in a row his team showed mental toughness, overcame deficits in the standings and won the division against odds....oh,...did you mean Jerry? Not Charlie?

I wish I had an extra $25K lying around. I'd buy one of the Shea foul polls and put it in my back yard.

Maybe he'll win a playoff game this year.

I hope so. And maybe the 2009 Mets will have a little guts.

On the bright side, the Knicks' season will start soon.

I hope so. And maybe the 2009 Mets will have a little guts.

On the bright side, the Knicks' season will start soon. [/quote]

You couldn't pay me to watch a basketball game anymore, Counselor. But I guess you have to cling to those memories of Dr. J, Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, and those awkward teen years as the only time Philly ever won anything in your lifetime.

Great pics Lou. Cool to see Yogi there. He was at the Yankee Stadium farewell. You forget that he was associated with the Mets organization.