Wednesday, May 21, 2008
CONTEST: YOUR WORST DAY OR NIGHT AT SHEA.
Thanks to the fine folks at A&E Home Video, I have TWO copies of the DVD boxset you see right here: THE NEW YORK METS: ESSENTIAL GAMES OF SHEA STADIUM. You’ve seen everyone else giving this one away, now it’s my turn. However, unlike, say, Adam Rubin, I’m not going to ask you trivia questions that the likes of TBF would be proud of. No, I want some creativity.
I want to hear about your WORST game at Shea. Was it snowing? Were you on a bad date and it went into extra innings? Did your mother choose to embarrass you in front of the entire section at age 13? Did the Mets just plain old suck in ridiculous fashion? Or was it some combination of all of the above? Write and tell me about it.
I have TWO sets to give away, courtesy Suzanne at A&E, and I will give them away to the person who sends in the story that both TBF and I (since he’s sat through some horrible, horrible games) will judge.
Please send your entry to metsgrrl at gmail dot com. Entries must be received by Midnight Brooklyn time, Monday, May 26, 2008. If you have been to a game with me, bought me a beer, met my parents or know the names of my siblings, you are disqualified. I will publish (anonymously if you wish) the best entries here.
Posted by MG at 06:59 AM
I’ll bring back a year that I’m sure Mets fans don’t want to remember: 2002. In August, the Mets were in the midst of a double-digit home losing streak and were getting no-hit and blown out by the Dodgers on the night that the 40th anniversary all-time team was being named.
How bad was it? Baseball was on the verge of another strike (it was averted on Aug. 31), and the Mets’ play was so bad that a premonition that I told my friend about came true: the fans stopped booing and started chanting loudly, “Go on Strike!” I just shook my head from side to side at that. But, I also snapped as a fan at that game, loudly accusing players (Mo Vaughn, John Valentin, and Jeromy Burnitz in particular) of being drug addicts. And I didn’t drink at that game! I was strongly urged to calm down by my friend and the people sitting around me. Not my proudest moment as a fan, but I had sat through too much bad baseball that year and couldn’t hold my anger anymore.
Fireworks Night 1999 versus the Braves and Game 4 of the 2000 World Series, the game where Jeter homered on the first pitch are disqualified for two reasons. The former because I was highly amused by Matt Franco pitching, Rickey Henderson at second base, and Rick Reed in rightfield by game’s end. The latter because it was the first and only World Series game that I’ve attended. Gotta cherish those regardless of the result — unless you were at Game 5.
I’m going to close the comments now, because otherwise everyone will write their entries here instead of emailing them.
If you want to enter the contest you need to follow the directions and email the entry to the address above.
OK I am automatically disqualified but I have some pretty good ones, though prob not winners. Can I still send you them anyway?? :D