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Merry Bricksmas
Seventeen inches wide, twelve pounds heavy and many brothers shy of a load…that’s my Shea Stadium brick, an nth of the place I loved and a pretty decent conversational companion if you’re not put off by his gruff manner. From my brick and me and all of us here at Faith and Fear in Flushing, have yourselves the happiest of holidays, Mack. 21 comments to Merry Bricksmas |
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Looking over this picture, I have but one question: did the “Dazed and Confused” DVD eat some others? That baby is huge!
Deluxe edition. It swallowed an earlier DVD package of the same movie, to be sure.
Next question: “Kids in the Hall” is “I should really own the complete series” good?
All a matter of taste, but yes, it is.
Remind me not to hang any pictures of me committing murder or going through stop signs over my right shoulder.
Along those lines, if you're done with “Naughty Nurses Ski Vacation,” would you be kind enough to send it back my way?
Many thanks.
It looks like a hunk of cake I ate this Christmas!!!
Anyway, I was surrounded by my nephews, all in new Yankee garb..Sixteen year old kids tallying up championships and laughing at me..
I cant believe I spent good money on these kids-not one of them a Mets fan..
Rich
You get extra points for “Slings and Arrows.”
That book 722 Miles is excellent.
Greg,
Mary Jane saw your brick, looked at ours and said “wow, your's is as big as a house compared to ours”.
Notice the large amount of concrete surrounding each of our bricks — wasn't it nice of the Mets to throw that in at no extra charge?
Joe,
I never noticed the width of the bricks when they were active. Now every piece of Shea footage and every Shea photograph I come across, I stare and wonder how I missed it. I don't know that one can get one's money's worth when one has bought a brick for sentimental value, but the Mets certainly gave me plenty of brick for the bucks.
And yes, no extra charge for the mortar. Or maybe there was.
Mine (a gift from my friend Bobbi in Minnesota) is a perfect brick shape. I have less mortar.
Mine has some mortar on the top and bottom – looks almost like an ice cream cake.
Shea will always live in our household. Above the brick is a stone sculpture of Shea, two final season commerative baseballs, a framed color photo of the park taken on it's inagural opener and signed by Jack Fischer, a replica 1964 Mets jersey (with the worlds fair patch on the sleeve) plus a montage of rainchecks dating back to the sixties.
Part of an overall small collection, indeed, but lots of memories.
Rich, ask them how many of those championships they personally witnessed. I mean, seriously… they were what, FOUR YEARS OLD when the recent run started? How much of, say, '96 and '98 could they possibly remember? I'd say 2000–the last one, heh–is probably the first one they could have really “participated in.”
Tell them you can't claim bragging rights to anything you don't even remember, let alone weren't alive for.
I'm going to pretend mine came from the left-field wall, and place my Endy bobblehead atop it. :-(
Nice. Now where the ^%$^ are my seats? Why did I pay $869 I can't afford for seats I'm apparently never going to receive? I hope Madoff took EVERYTHING, Fred. Screw you!!!
To clear any confusion, I'm addressing the “Fred” who owns the Mets, not the contributor to this website, of whom I am a major fan.
Mine came too early! I was hoping they'd be a surprise birthday gift for the Missus in January, but she called me at work on 12/17: “What did you order? UPS is in front of the house with a huge carton. Wait, it says it's from the Mets… OMIGOD! OMIGOD! Tell me you got seats?!!!”
Wow! Your birthday gift to your wife was Shea seats?? How'd that go over? You're my freakin' hero!
Well, it came so early it became her Christmas present, so now I'm on the hook for another gift in two weeks. This is a pretty tough one to top, though – she was pretty jazzed about it. So much so, it looks as if they'll remain on display right in the living room!
Will you marry me?
Sorry, I don't think the Missus would be in favor of that.