What’s nicer? The new Yankee Stadium or the new Shea Stadium?
Thank God tomorrow is Opening Day!! I hate the off-season.
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Yankee Stadium. No doubt.
A modest proposal, without any Swiftian snark. What if cities competed for new businesses, recent graduates, and tourists not by touting billion dollar facilities but by bragging up their high literacy, numeracy, and high school graduation rates. It should be a no brainer that a nation growing ever fatter and more afflicted with diabetes melitis II should promote leisure filled with recreation rather then orgies of junk food consumption in stadiums where only the elite get exercise. In Minneapolis we can pour money into stadiums and shopping malls but quibble over fixed rail transit (for some reason the Midwest hates subways and light rail more than the East, West and South) We have lost our airline to transit-built Atlanta, our biggest bank to transit-built SF-Oakland and tech giant Honeywell Co to the transit-built NYC area, but never mind, looky at the new Gopher football stadium and the new Twins stadium, woo-woo!
Calling for snow showers here at the Reds opener against the Mets Monday afternoon.
Gametime temp, most likely 36 or so. Kind of annoying it was 68 this afternoon.
Hallelujah.
Although they are forecasting snow showers and a wind chill down in the 20’s for tomorrow. Expansion. Screwed everything up.
The 1960’s Yankee Stadium. 461 feet to center field – 457 to left center – a real “death valley” – monuments on the field. It was miles better than all the bullshit “improvements” that have followed.
Give me Safeco Field.
And Qwest Field, while you’re at it, home of the unbeaten, un-scored upon Seattle Sounders FC, the Scourge of MLS. (At least so far)
Both projects are affronts to tradition and wasteful of precious resources, given that perfectly good stadiums already existed. Meanwhile the roads and bridges that lead to each are literally crumbling. Priorities.
Dodger Stadium is still my favorite.
neither of them can hold a candle to Jacob’s Field.
Mothers
Day 2008
I have to say, I’ve never seen a cooler stadium than Safeco Field in Seattle. You can’t beat the decktop views of Puget Sound at sunset, the huge chunks of garlic and salt on the garlic fries (just thinking about them adds five pounds!) and the really great sushi you can get there.
I miss being able to watch Ichiro in the summer, through a slit in a bar (not a window, a wooden slit). Weird places. Fun stuff.
All that said, I’m sad I can’t get back East to see the new stadiums. They both look very fun!