Category: mets

I exchanged emails with the new Events Manager of McFadden’s Citi Field – I am hopeful that we’ll be officially marching on McFadden’s (in a peaceful way) on Opening Day.  Will keep you posted…and I have one eye on the weather.

If you are wondering about this Blue Cap Army thing, information is here and please sign up.  Signing up helps me answer the question “how many people ya got?”

The cool Mets blog On The Black visited McFadden’s yesterday and these photos make it seem there’s still lots of work to do.  Thanks to Kerel for sending the link over, and go check out On the Black for the pictures and a McFadden’s update.

Some of us were chatting in the comments section about pre-renovated Shea.  The great site Forgotten New York has the picture below:

Check out a few things…the National League is listed on the left side.  In later years it was on the right.  I wonder why they flipped that?   Even Mets Police 1970 wouldn’t have complained about that.

I love the big text message board that was replaced by a Budweiser ad at some point.  It would take forever to put a message  up there, they had to do it one letter at a time, scrolling through each letter like you would on a video game back in the day.

Check out the “video screen” up top.  That was gone before my day.  I recall that being a clock in the late 70’s, and later a Mets logo.

Note the way the pitchers are logged.  The pitcher uniform number is not being displayed, but rather a code which you would then look up in a scorebook.  I recall being at some other stadium semi-recently and finding it interesting.  Philly maybe.

I don’t recall there being a message area on the bottom left of the scoreboard.   I know the light panels were replaced at some point after the 1980’s, but the design in the picture is the one I grew up with (well without the video screen).

I’m so tempted to go sarcastic about the message in the lower left but I will refrain.

Here’s another pic (in color) of the scoreboard. Thanks to Corey for the links.

I really should go dig and see if there are pictures of me as a kid at a Mets game, and I really need to tell the Seaver story – maybe when the site gets a little bigger.

I was thinking about the now-removed fanbrick.  When I do the 10th anniversary MetsPolice column in 2018, that photo’s gonna be a nice rarity isn’t it?

Ceetar who is a frequent contributor to the conversation here, and runs Optimistic Mets Fan, informs me that hot dog easting contests at Met ballparks are not new (one is coming up at Citi) and has the photos to prove it.

More photos here and a cool one here.