I keep forgetting to mention that SNY's Gary Cohen and his analyst friends from the 1986 Mets will call Thursday's Mets game from the upper deck at Shea.
It's a tribute from Cohen to his own past as a kid who sat there long ago - and to fellow Mets fans - as the old ballpark prepares to be shut down.
Fellow long-time Mets fan Howie Rose is expected to join Cohen at some point from the radio side, and there will be special guests dropping by.
If you're at the game, you should wave.
Obvious question: Has Keith Hernandez or Ron Darling ever sat in the upper deck at Shea before?
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Keith mentioned during a game last year that he filmed a NY Smokers Quitline PSA up there.
Keith retold the same story during today's game. Said he was shooting a scene for that PSA up near the Agee HR in left field.
Figures the one day I would want to be in the upper deck, I get tickets under the screen behind home plate.
I used to buy the $1.30 GA tickets, but once upon a time in Shea Stadium you could buy those tickets and trek all the way upstairs or you could walk up one level to the box seats, find a nice spot to stand behind a line in back of the box seats behind home plate and watch the game from there or walk down to the left or rightfield bull pen area and find a spot to stand out there. Obviously after a while they closed the place in and these valuable spots were no longer available, but they were a great place to watch baseball and if you stood behind the plate, you got to meet the Mets' wives who sat there (especially Ruth Ryan and Nancy Seaver!), or some famous people who got freebies and sat there as well. And catch foul balls.