They play the final game ever today in the original Yankee Stadium. What’s on your mind?
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Go Red Sox! :-).
GO CUBBIES!!!!!
the first “remodel”.
What they do now doesn’t really matter.
Somehow it fits into the broader scene that is being painted at the moment. Wall St. crashing, our government $9 trillion in debt, war on two fronts, we’re running out of gas now and they are closing Yankee stadium. Nice job, Bushie…
if the fundamentals of the “economy” our sound why do the Republicans want to rush through the bail out program.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080921/pl_politico/13689
I put this in an older comment, but it’s worth repeating. For a startling insight into the plutocratic con game that is the new stadium, take a look at Friday’s Bill Moyers Journal. You wouldn’t think a story about a baseball park would resonate with a show mostly about the ongoing financial meltdown, but it turns out to be the perfect model for what’s happened to all of America.
Watch the whole show while you’re at it. I think it’s one of Moyers’s very best ever.
I’m disappointed my Yanks are closing the Stadium out on a low note.
I’ll never forget watching the last set of championships, though. Good times.
My fantasy world series?
Cubs vs. the Rays.
Underdog vs. Underdog.
And the Cubs win, thanks to the brilliant Lou Pinella. I saw up close what he did with the Mariners. He deserves a World Series win with the Cubs.
Given the ownership of the Yankees & in particular how Dave Winfield was treated, I just don’t give a shit.
I made it out to Yankee Stadium earlier this summer. Figured I should check it out before it’s gone (I also went to Shea). It was a cool experience, and out of all the ballparks I’ve been to I’ve never seen fans as passionate as the Yankee fans. That said, my impression of the stadium itself is that it was pretty much a dump. It’s in much worse shape than Tiger Stadium was when the Tigers moved out of there.
I read an interesting column in the Star Ledger yesterday that the new stadium is the House that Fans Built. http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/09/steve_politi_the_final_years_w.html
Surprisingly, even in the Glory Years at the Stadium they only drew less than 12K a game. Some days it would be hundreds. I remember in the late 80s George was complaining about the crime and parking and low attendence in The Bronx and threatening to build a new stadium in The Meadowlands.
Then he got himself banned. Gene Michaels took over the team and brought us Bernie, Jeter, O’Neil, Mariano, and Pettite and others and they started drawing 40-50K a night and every night since.
The problem is the facility just can’t really handle those numbers night after night. That, combined with the fact that the money George spends on a new stadium comes off the luxury tax he has to pay other teams to help beat him, were the prime factors in choosing to build a new stadium.
At least the new stadium will be a lot more like the original stadium than the current stadium. And it won’t take two innings to hit the head.