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The great Phil Mushnick asks:

Before 33-year-old Giants Stadium is abandoned this January, then destroyed, and tens of thousands of longtime Jets and Giants ticket-holders are lost to PSL extortions, representatives of the teams and the NFL should provide an official answer as to why.

I’ll add on that they didn’t build a dome.   Talk about completely unnecessary stadiums….like the one in the Bronx.  There was no need for it, but like the “new” stadium (1976) it will feel like home to Yankees fans now – the “new” stadium opened with 4 pennants in 5 years, and the death of the captain.   Having a World Series in Year One will make the new place feel legit, even though I think it was unnecessary.

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Mets Blog reminds us Note: Anniversary of the Buckner Ball.

It’s a good recap and reminds you just how close the Mets were to not winning in 1986.  Buckner makes that out and we head to another inning and who knows what happens.  It’s romantic to think Buckner steps on first and the Sox win but the game was already tied.

I often say “if only we had blogs then…” but I would have loved ripping the Mets over the “Congratulations Red Sox” story.  That really did happen, I had friends who were at the game tell me about it the next day.   I wonder if there’s a photo of it somewhere.

Here’s a recap from Boston written in 2004.

My friend Jim the Yankees fan was going to call me to torture me once the Mets made the final out.   I was dreading the call and waiting for the phone to ring.  At school on Monday he told me he had my entire number dialed except the last digit and that my phone would have rang one second after the Mets loss.

In the middle of the night I woke up laughing at the thought that Jerry Manuel should start wearing #3 like how Girardi chose #27.  Come on Jerry, do it.

Another fine ’69 Mets article:

In all of New York baseball, starting with the day in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright’s Knickerbockers and the New York Nine crossed the Hudson to Hoboken to play the first recorded baseball game anywhere, there has never been anything like it … not the Bobby Thomson home run, a spear aimed at the heart of all that was Brooklyn … not the perfect World Series game by the Yankees’ Don Larsen … not the World Series catches by Willie Mays and Sandy Amoros and Al Gionfriddo.

Continues here.

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Our weekly recap of the most popular articles and those that deserved better.

This picture of a Phillies fan with a “Ya Gotta Believe” sign to this story about Tug McGraw dissing New York in 1980, me being sad, and this fan telling me Tug made nice with NY before he died.

Check out how the Mets or Citibank or the ad agency were too lazy to take a picture of an actual Mets fan.

Still a lot of reaction to my call for Uniform Unanimity.   Here’s some comments.

Someone should save Yankee Stadium Gate 2.

Should the Islanders move to 126th street?

The Phillies have everything we want.

Start playoff games earlier

No UFL game at Citi Field.

• The compilation post of pictures of our Citi Field walkaround – these are of the outfield area, and shots from outside.
• The midseason update to Citi Field pictures can be found here.
• Here is the recent Tour of The Mets Team Store
• Yankee Stadium being demolished
• The Uncensored Unofficial Guide To Citi Field
• Inside the Acela Club
• Inside the Caesar’s Club
• Has the novelty worn off Citi Field?
• Citi Field in McCartney mode.
• Photo Tour of Jackie Robinson Rotunda
• Tour of the ’47 Shop

• Mets Police guide to being cheap about parking near Citi
• Suggestions for new traditions at Citi
• Shopping at the team store (10 part photo series)
•  1969 jerseys 
• Yankee Stadium guides and parking tips.
• An updated compilation of obstructed views at Citi Field

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Here’s a leftover from the other day (it’s a long off-season so I hold onto things) – the Wall Street Journal asks if the NFL should ban domes.

In the early going, the nine NFL teams whose stadiums have roofs are a combined 30-19 this season. The Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts are undefeated, and the Atlanta Falcons, another dome team, are 3-0 at home.

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