The New Yankee Stadium Disaster
We were promised the Battlestar Galactica of Baseball Stadiums, a tasteful remake that would be a vast improvement of already legendary entity. Instead we got Psycho (1998) where Gus Van Sant singlehandedly showed us the extent of Hitchcock’s genius and forced us to endure the worst performances of half a dozen actors’ lives. Psycho may have actually scarred the very act of making films for years to come. The movie was so terrible Gus Van Sant went from Oscar nominated genius to directing Music Videos again. Isn’t it weird. Isn’t it strange. Even though we’re just two strangers on this runaway train, we’re both trying to find a place in the sun. – The Immortal Hanson
The new Yankee Stadium is an unmitigated disaster that can only bring joy to heart of any Mets or Red Sox fans. I don’t think I could have even fathomed a day where there would huge blocks of empty seats on a nationally televised game at Yankee Stadium. It is the kind of thing you see in Kansas City or NatsTown, not opening weekend in the Bronx. By unrealistically pricing of seats the Yankees are making themselves look like a joke. All you can see when watching a game on TV is the blue seats surround the field of play. Pinstripes and Pride indeed, filling your stadium less than ¾ up on a weekend game, that’s the kind of thing you see in such great baseball towns as San Diego and Washington DC. Pricing out your fans to make yourself look like a joke on National TV, classy.
Beyond the empty seats, the new Yankee Stadium is playing like a joke. In the old stadium during day games you would get a slight breeze going to Left Center field coming off the river. However the New Yankee Stadium is 90 degree counter clockwise turn from old stadium. Add the fact that you lengthened out stadium to add concourse room making a far less steep incline and that the New Yankee Stadium stands unimpeded to the Harlem River, suddenly the nice left center breeze becomes a jet stream to RF. A wind tunnel that kills balls going into LF dragging them further into center and helping balls hit to an already smaller RF (it was a near joke before) fly out of the park. The expression on Johnny Damon’s face after he hit his first HR in the New Yankee Stadium says it all. Damon stared almost shocked as his ball sailed over the wall. Even rounding second, he paused for a moment and looked out to right as if he was checking if it actually made over the wall for sure. You could tell he thought there was no way it was going out off his bat. I have never seen a player so confused by own home run.
The new Yankee Stadium is going to play like a bandbox during the day. It should dampen a bit was NYC becomes more humid but the wind whipping down the Harlem is going to drag those balls towards right field. The stadium already built to assist left handed sluggers has become even more lefty friendly. Ian Kennedy is probably already having nightmares about coming back up to the majors.
You would think the only embarrassing thing about the stadium would have been the corrupt dealings to get the stadium. However after a construction delay to find a Ortiz jersey, inability to sell luxury boxes, the delays to rebuild the parks taken away by the new stadium, the illegal devaluing the land to get bonds, and having to ask for even more money to waste in the construction you figure, hell they probably got the stadium right now. But instead you get Coors Park East with a matching attendance record. Sunday during the YES broadcast, Michael Kay announced the Yankee Stadium was going to have cap day. Cap day. No sponsor, instead the Yankees were having pretty much the most desperate ploy to get people into a stadium on a weekend game, against the Angels. It sounded like Michael Kay had been kicked in the balls when he was reading the promo. It was probably the most gut wrenching moment of Michael Kay’s life since Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS or the first time heard the tapes from Joba’s DUI arrest. Somehow I don’t think Cap Day is going to lure in people to buy the $500+ seats you aren’t going to get filled. The new Yankee Stadium: About as hot a Vince Vaughn in drag.
This new writer is seriously terrible. Is that a “I Hate the Yankees” blog, or a blog that I can get insight about the Sox? Please get rid of this new guy. He writes like a 10-year old.
It’s time for us, as Sox fans, to stop being so f-ing obsessed with everything the Yankees do. If we are to consider ourselves fans of a world-class organization, then the obsession with another team doesn’t make sense. Don’t get me wrong – I watch the scoreboard in April and love to watch them lose. But man, give it a rest TRic. We need more Jimmy.
Learn how to format your paragraphs too.
It’s “Coors Field,” not “Coors Park,” dipshit. (sensitive Rockies fan here.) Although everything else in the post is for the most part correct.