Billy Joel To Play Shea Stadium, Inspire Many “Yankees Suck” Chants

Those Billy Joel concerts at Shea Stadium, which is closing its ugly-ass doors after the Mets close out the 2008 season^*? They will not be the final events at the cement behemoth, a fact that should cause every Mets fan out there to sigh with relief because really having a Yankee fan play the last show at Shea would just be so. utterly. wrong.

Instead, the show will take place on July 16, the night after the All-Star Game takes place at Yankee Stadium. The show will make Joel the first performer to play at both of New York City’s soon-to-be-replaced baseball stadia, and it’ll be the first in-season show at Shea since 1992, when Joel played with Eric Clapton. (How do I not remember that show taking place? Usually every Billy Joel show would be immediately followed by 1/3 of my high school wearing the concert’s commemorative shirts. And adding Clapton to the mix? It’s like the WBAB dream bill!)[Billboard]

^* I am not going to jinx anything by saying exactly when the Mets will do this. But Johan Santana looked so awesome at that press conference yesterday, didn’t he??