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Alert me when articles match as these words. Despite the Mets startling at the end of last season, more than, devoted fans were out in full force on Tuesday for Shea Stadium s final home opener. Michael O Kane Mets fans gather early in Shea Stadium on Tuesday for this year s home opener. This is the last season before the Mets move to the new Citi Field being built next door.
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Rougher and tougher With Avs on deck, Wild hope to best last year’s loss to Ducks. Search real time news stories from Yahoo News and across the web. Mets Fans Hope For Last Hurrah. Some among the sold out crowd waved signs that read. S one thing Mets fans have over the years, it. What wound up a beautiful day started out overcast and a bit chilly, as in the hours before the game the smell of smoking hot dogs, burgers and cigars wafted between tailgate parties.
Bill and Kate Powell, who drove in from Wantagh, L. M, were among those hanging out in the parking lot before the first pitch. With the lots just about full, there was little traffic, an they seized to play a game of catch with their two boys, Michael,, a Little League pitcher and catcher, and Brian,, a first and third baseman. His little brother Brian, for whom only a few years had passed since he was that age, said he was excited to see David Wright. Ve been a fan ever since he started for the Mets.
With his face painted blue and orange, carrying a Mets teddy bear with him he walked, Karim Simmons,, from the Bronx, spent years living in Bayside and was a die hard Mets fan. Was a gift from his mother in, who had recently passed away. Simmons and his mother had spent years coming to Shea together. Now Simmons brought along Met Ted as a reminder.
She would have loved being here for the final season. It would have been for her. He was confident that the Mets would pull off a victory against the team that burned them so badly last year with eight straight defeats at the end of the season.
It was a wound so freshly felt he dared not speak the other team. As for Shea, he said he was a bit sorry to see it go. But like many fans, he was excited to attend the Citi Field stadium once it is completed. Re going to play in next year. With the new stadium, and with dramatic rezoning plans threatening the ramshackle Willets Point just adjacent, a few Shea staples have remained constant over the years, and don. T look to change any time soon.
Among them is Edward Venezia, who has been on the parking staff for years. At years old, he seemed as spry as some half his age. I was here when they came. He said, referring to when the Mets came to Shea in. Mostly what had changed since then, he said, was the ticket prices.
T have much money then . I like the old stadium he said, smiling. But then again, modern times, you have to move, I guess.
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Buddies and fellow die hards Dennis Alestra and Charlie Cannarella waved placards in the parking lot, shouting. Asked if he was feeling sentimental about the last home opener at Shea, Cannarella seemed to welcome some change after last year. S a new year, out with the old, in with the new. T repeat the kind of ending we had last year. M looking forward to getting better facilities. He said, joking that maybe now he wouldn.
T have to wear galoshes into the restrooms after the seventh inning. My father taught me that a long time ago. He added, along with some other wisdom that.
Mets fans had suffered enough over the years, it seemed. But like thousands of phoenixes rising out of the ashes of a season that went down in flames, the fans jostled with optimism.
He had just come from where the Mets took their revenge in the season opener. The new stadium, he said, was. S a quality stadium for quality fans.
T enough to carry them through for a victory, with more injuries plaguing the ailing team.
Relief pitcher Matt Wise was placed on the day disabled list after bruising his right forearm.
Adding insult to injury, it was the Mets. Ninth straight loss to the Phillies, with starter Jamie Moyer holding the Mets to just two runs. Carlos Delgado smacked his first homer of the season, giving him a career total, passing Cal Ripken Jr. Delgado committed the costliest error in the game, however, when an errant throw of his hit runner Chase Utley, allowing two Phillies runs run across the plate in the top of the seventh to tie the ball game. A one run RBI by Jorge Sosa put the Phillies in the lead before the close of the inning, adding two more in the eighth to put the Mets away for the day.
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