Stumbled across this:Section Six Blog
The last thing that frustrates me about this is why are the Mets selling everything? Are you telling me the Mets championship banners aren’t worth keeping? Are the Mets simply going to forget Shea even existed? When you walk into CitiField and see a statue of Jackie Robinson, who wasn’t even a Met, wouldn’t you want to also see the old banners hanging from the rafters? Why aren’t the Mets planning on a small museum within the new stadium for the Mets history, including Willie Mays’ old locker, Ralph Kiner’s door to the press box, Tom Seaver’s retired number and the 1969 and 1986 banners? Doesn’t it make you kinda sick that the Mets are just tossing these things aside, and in some cases having new replica’s replace them? Well, it makes me sick, but you know what, it is par for the course, the Mets have always been a Mickey Mouse franchise. Let’s see how the the crosstown club handles this.
And Loge 13 also asked a good question: Why did the Mets sell the 1986 banner?
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