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...remember flying into New York at about this time last year, just before the Subway Series between the Mets and the Yanks was set to begin. I remember paying little attention to Lower Manhattan, instead zeroing in on Shea Stadium during the descent and feeling an indescribable surge of electricity and anticipation of the coming games...
...taking the Delta Shuttle from Logan to LaGuardia. I take the train home instead. I can only imagine that Lower Manhattan looks smaller from above than it did, and assume that the “2000 National League Champs” banner still stubbornly hangs of the side of Shea...
...downtown the train passes NYU, where Stango goes to school now. Stango’s been the author of a number of memorable Loop moments, including one that happened when we all showed up at a Met game one year and it happened to be Jewish Heritage Day at Shea. None of us are Jewish. We’re a couple of Irish guys, a couple of Italian guys, a Chinese kid and me, the black guy. We’re all Catholic...
During one of these nights, The Loop went to a game at Shea between the Mets and the Rockies. Aileen was there, too. We were all abuzz over the spraying going on in nearby Flushing Meadows Park. One member of our merry band, Brian, was particularly spooked. He feared that the row of bleacher seats beneath us that the Mets had blocked off had something to do with West Nile or the spraying. And, believe it or not, we all started to believe...
...many Groton alumni, though, it is the stereotyped image of their school that they find most upsetting. Groton has excellent educators who are concerned with the lives of students, Shea says. The school had a lot of influence on my life, and Im really glad I went there. Groton was a great experience...