Game 156: The House That Became A Home
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Today is a day that I thought would never come. Like the last day of summer vacation as a kid, I knew it would happen eventually but didn’t want to believe it. But now it’s here, the last game at Yankee Stadium, and I can best describe the feeling as sad, joyful and nostalgic.
I’ve spent many days in The House That Ruth Built, more than I care to count. Whether I was a kid annoying my father for more cotton candy, or cutting class in high school to catch a day game from the far reaches of Tier Reserved, or a yuppie deciding which dugout I wanted to sit behind, the one thing that never changed was the proud Stadium. Walking out of the tunnel to see the greenest grass I’ve ever seen and hear Ed Alstrom on the organ for the first time has always been one of my favorite memories of the Stadium.
We’ve bitched and moaned about the team on the field all season long, but I don’t even care about that anymore. Today is about celebrating a long-standing New York tradition, soaking in the best Yankee Stadium has to offer. As Doug Mientkiewicz perfectly put it: God did create heaven on Earth … it’s called Yankee Stadium.
Yankee Stadium will live on forever in our hearts and memories, but as Jane Heller reminds us: The memories — the magic — were never really about the building. Truer words have never been spoken.
The baseball gods took care of the Yanks today like they have so many times before, granting just a perfect day for baseball. Enjoy the game, enjoy the pre- and post-game festivities, enjoy being a Yankees’ fan.
1. Johnny Damon, CF
2. Derek Jeter, SS
3. Bobby Abreu, RF
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Jason Giambi, 1B
6. Xavier Nady, LF
7. Robinson Cano, 2B
8. Hideki Matsui, DH
9. Jose Molina, C
And on the mound, a man who has won 94 of the 169 games he’s pitched in Yankee Stadium, Andy Pettitte.
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Today im wondering to myself. whats gonna make me cry? Bernie’s appearance, pettite’s exit from the game, or the hammer of god entering to entersandman.
Rumor has it that Metallica will be in attendance to play Mariano in one last time
Hopefully they grow their balls back before they play.
Couldn’t of said it better Mike
Pats lose, Giants GW field goal, and yankees stadium’s farewell all in one day.
Yo, did you know that there’s some 13-yr old girl in NHL 09? She’s in the free agents, rated 98 as a goalie. I guess one of the producers put their daughter in the game. It screwed up my franchise, so I started over after ~25 games.
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Hey, I own the place. So like Steinbrenner, I can bend the rules now and then.
Ben is that you?
lol, nice
haha thats pretty cool, Just claimed the 1st place in the western conference after beating the first place Columbus Blue Jackets and third place Vancouver Canucks
Way to go, Mets’ bullpen.
Is it blasphemy ESPN is playing Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York before the Yanks play, much less win? I cringed and changed the channel quickly, don’t want to jinx the last game
Harlan just said Joba was a Braves fan and a Frank Thomas fan. Wierd Combo.
If ESPN is really a bunch of Sox fans in disguise, I tip my hat, their doing a hell of a job covering the game.
Heh, Jeter’s body language was like “please go away Joe Morgan, I don’t want to talk to you.”
Oh good, Paul O’Neill is in the “Joba must be TEH 8TH INNING GUY!!!!” camp.
The Paulie handling of the Ensberg/Hawkins number flap was enough to convince me that I don’t need to listen to any of Paulie’s observations about the game.
He was a good player. He’s unoriginal and uncritical as an analyst. Pass.
Cant beleive o neil jus implied joba should be a reliever ugh
Excellent timing, Mike
The ceremony will involve either the ex-players or the family of ex-players jogging to their respective position, much like the All star game ceremony.
I can’t wait to see Bernie.
Me too.
Me three
Me four.
Of course this being ESPN, they HAD to show the Red Sox ’04 win. Uuugh.
I was just going to guess an over/under for # of crashes, but you guys HAD to ruin all the fun and get a good server. lol
Gotta love ESPN camera panning in on ARod as Buck talks about NY fans being able to sniff out a phony. Heh.
Heh, bravo to Sterling to showing off the shuffle.
I had no idea there was a whole dance with it on top of the yodeling.
Oh. My. God. John Sterling is the man.
I would give 1000 dollars to see a no hitter or something historical tonight for the yankees
That would be cool, but knowing this year’s Yankees, the no-hitter would probably be against them.
I’ll settle simply for a nice win, with Mo closing it out.
Biggest regret of my life is that I never made it to a game. Wife chose Antigua over NY for our honeymoon this august.
I’ve only been to 2 games at the stadium, and I’ve got to say the best was a walk-off homerun off the bat of fan favorite Melky Cabrera.
Dammit!!! That would have been a great title for the post.
The House That Became A Home
Screw it, I’m changing it.
No one saw.
Ok, phew. Good to know.
Mike, I’m going to go put on my Luther Vandross album, just for you…
“A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no one sittin’ there
But a chair is not a house and a house is not a home
When there’s no one there to hold you tight
And no one there you can kiss goodnight
Whoa…oh…oh…oh…oh…oh…oh…
Girl…”
man i know its offf topic but shockey and 85 are killing my fantasy team
Bernie has put on some pounds.
I can’t believe it. This is it folks, the last game in this stadium. I kinda speechless you know.
Word. I’m really going to miss the place.
More than any words can explain…
I saw my first game I can remember at Yankee Stadium probably around 1969 when I was 4 years old. My Grandfather brought my brother and I. I wish I had a picture from that day. I do have a memory though. My Grandfather was upset that all my brother and I were interested in was the hot dogs and cotton candy. Oh well, what do you expect from two little Mets fans?
Sportstuffblog
Who would you say our best pitcher was from the dynasty years ? Probably Cone right
Mo. If you’re talking starters, then either Coney or Pettitte.
Im tearing man
The Dive !!!
I freaken love Tino
Whats the greatest game ya ever saw here?
Mine was always 03 ALCS game against the sox. I remember the game so vividly and even what I was doing during the game.
In person? Doc’s no-hitter.
Just in general, on TV or something, then Game 6 of the 1996 World Series. That was what’s it all about.
The Boone walk off was amazing no doubt.. Im only 17 so its what i Remember best and also like you what i was doing.. When Wake came in I was like uhoh hes good ya know than Boone homered and i flipped like went completely crazy like holy shit
Same, I’m 19 and I’ll never forget that particular crack of the bat, it was amazing
What I remember most about that game was the comback but also how great Mo was in that game going 3 scoreless innings.
Yeah, and Contreras was warming up in the pen for the 12th. Yikes.
My favorite memory of that game (after the Boone Blast) is Moose coming out in relief. 1st and 3rd w/no outs and he shut them down. Without that inning, Mo never gets a chance, no Boone.
Yeah. Giambi hit 2 homers off Pedro in that game too, that always gets overlooked.
Word. Moose was money in that game.
Don Larsons’ perfect game! Hands down!
Of course this being ESPN, they HAD to show the Red Sox ‘04 win. Uuugh.
Geez did ya see how the mets BP inplode? Yikes.
If Philly holds the lead, the Mets will be 1.5 GB with 7 to play.
And only have have a 1.5 game lead over the Brewers.
It’s a crime that we get to hear the stylings of Joe Morgan and John Miller tonight. I’m no fan of Michael Kay, but YES should’ve been the ones to broadcast the game.
Not to mention the sideline reporting of Peter Gammons.
Ugh.
and if the ESPN Sunday Night game was another game on the last night of the stadium, we’d be complaining about that…
Actually, I would have liked it to have been a day game.
fair enough. i’d have also liked it actually be on the last day of the season too, but the schedule makers didn’t seem to think that was a good idea.
Steve, I doubt they thought we would miss the playoffs.
agreed.
they should just let yogi announce the game on his own
Gator looks like he could throw an inning or two if need be.
I was talking about this with my roommate this morning: why the need to knock down the Old Stadium? Why not make it into a national landmark museum? People would come in droves to see it. As for the whole “need to give parkland to the community” thing, how much would the kids LOVE to play on the same field where the game’s greats had stepped?
aren’t they keeping the field though as part of the park?
i’d imagine the answer is that the real estate in NYC is way too scarce and way too valuable to keep an old stadium around.
“aren’t they keeping the field though as part of the park?”
At one point they were toying with the idea of making it into a Little League ball field to play championship games and stuff I don’t know what happen with that but that would be cool.
That’s still the plan (the little league park)… but it’s not going to be the actual field. They’re raising it up (the current field is about 5-10 feet below street level) and moving it slightly to better fit the block.
That’s cool.
Boy it would be really cool if Phil Rizzuto was alive and stuff. You know he would did something funny.
I miss the “Holy Cow!”
Mariano: “Adrenaline will be going through my body. I don’t know, maybe I won’t be able to pitch….”
Um, get a grip, Mo! We don’t want a blown save to be our lasting memory of tonight!
that thing on Boomer’s chin is gross.
He definitely looks like he could trot out to the mound, take 8 warmup pitches, then start snapping off benders at knees right to the catchers glove. He looks like he lost weight too.
And pound the strike zone all day long
Gammons shouldnt be here
Yogi is da man
I’m going to hate watching it on ESPN.
It is a TRAVESTY that this game is on ESPN. They’ll take their cheap shots, I guarantee you.
Sad we aint going to the playoffs =[
Bobby Murcer tributes make me cry every damn time.
There is no baseball uniform that’s better than the yanks. Best Hats.
It’s really good to see Bernie back. It’s truly good to see him here cuz it’s just seems like forever when we didn’t see him.
WTF!?!?!?! I get all excited the pre-game ceremonies are about to begin and fucking Chris Berman and ESPN News appear with NFL scores shit…………………. I called ESPN customer service and they told me there is a game on (didn’t know which game or whatever) and that its on ESPNClassic. It’ll switch back once the “game” ends. God I hate Orlando/ESPN
guys, the pre-game is on YES.
Can someone kinda do a brief “play by play” for me? I’d appreciate it, until whatever “game” ends they’re talking about
Dude, it’s on ESPN2.
and YES
It wasn’t before, it just came on in Orlando, like literally they JUST switched it over. First sight I saw was them with the banner. Thanks though
The Voice of God.
this is giving me a seizure
How could you be wearing an Oregon ducks t shirt to the final yankee game?
Im really gonna miss “The Black”.
This is so cool.
Wow, they’re going all out.
this is a little freaky in a “field of dreams” kindof way
lol
Oh cool, the Babe showed up.
YES’ pre-game coverage is superb as usual.
Although this is unusual…. could’ve done without the re-enactment.
Yeah, this is kinda creepy.
I dunno, I think it’s really cool.
It is quite hard to believe and you have to be amaze that the yankee uniform has never change.
except for that week when the Assistant to theTraveling Secretary changed them to cotton
classic
It’s a natural fabric, you know.
Okay, now this is cool.
it’s cool that Matsui is playing tonight
He’s having surgery tomorrow.
ROY!!!!
Winfield – A-Rod before A-Rod, maybe in 20 years A-Rod will be appreciated too
Word, he was a freak. Drafted in 3 sports.
HOLY COW, THE SCOOTER.
They go from left field to….shortstop????
i was just thinking that
They’re keeping us on our toes.
DEREK JETER…….DEREK JETER.
Man, I CAN’T wait for Bernie. You have no idea.
i wonder if that’s why they went from LF to SS. saving Bernie for last?
it’s appropriate that Cora is with Mo, since Scooter is also with God
LOL! Excellant work my freind
Cora still looks great.
unclutch
It’s a shame Donnie won’t be here for the game.
HELL YEA. No Donnie on the last day of yankee stadium. Hard to believe.
agree.
Greatest moments for me I have 3 of them:
1 and 2- Watching games 1 and 2 of the 2000 World Series my dream match up and the only time that I didn’t care that I had bleachers seats. LOL
3- Watching Gooden’s no-hitter thanks to my wife who picks that game as the make-up for a snowy cold opening day.
Everything after this has been a cherry on top thank you to the old lady I will miss so much.
Barfield? holy shit.
From Pete Abe:
That’s pathetic if true.
Why Im not surprise.
That’s not pathetic… that’s disgusting.
Shameful, and disgusting. I hope all those people who booed die of gonorrhea.
they should have had Barry Pepper do Maris
MR. OCTOBER!!!
REG-GIE REG-GIE
Paulie!
ladies and gentleman, LaTroy Haaaaaawkins!!!
PAULIE. GOD of Grit and Gutty.
He was Pedroia before Pedroia was Pedroia. Actually, Paulie is Youk. Fucking love him if he’s on your team, fucking hate him if he’s not.
Yup. Paulie is Youk. Minus the child molesting, of course.
wonder if knoblaugh will be here
Was he there for Old Timer’s Day? I think so…
i guess the better question is if Roger will be there.
somehow i doubt it….
Paulie is my boy
no Steve Sax?
Eddie: (reading Sax’s license) Well well, Steve Sax, from New York City.
Lou: I heard some guy got killed in New York City and they never solved the case. But you wouldn’t know anything about that now, would you, Steve?
(Lou and Eddie laugh)
Steve Sax: But there are hundreds of unsolved murders in New York City.
Lou: You don’t know when to keep your mouth shut, do you, Saxxy Boy?
Gotta See Wille man.
“A true Yankee!”
I love how they stick it to the Mets every chance they get.
Tony Womack is like hey where the fuck am i on there
Hah. Yeah Enrique Wilson got snubbed.
Mariano Duncan and Pat Kelly too…
Yay, Willie!!!
Wonder why the Mets never took to this guy…..
WILLIE!!!
Willie with the slide!!! (feet first, teaching the kids right!)
What happened? Did he trip over the bag?
He did brush it off after he slid. lol
One of my fav yankee moments, when Tino hit that GS in that 98 WS.
ladies and gentlemen, Cecil “i ate the Center” Fielder
lol
Please tell me Tino is there, the Stadium will go crazy
he’s there.
TINO!!!
Wow that a great scene seeing Chambliss being mobbed by yankke fans.
Can’t believe Mattingly didn’t make it.
was that grand slam in 1998 really one of the “biggest HRs in Yankee history”?
it’s not like they were going to lose that series no matter what.
love Tino though.
giardi’s triple, awesome
Hip hip!
Hip Hip Jorge! Man do I miss him
YOGI!!!!!!!
Yogiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Berra.
YOGI!
Standing right on the plate. You tell them whose house this is Yogi!!!!!
So yeah, there’s no way this game’s starting at 8:15.
Sheryl Howard… I’d hit that.
me too.
Hey Howard’s daughter looks cute.
i think they are saving Bernie for last.
man, i hope the stadium doesn’t collapse from that ovation.
Isn’t that awesome how they’re leaving him for last? I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bernie the coach debut in the next few years
But doesn’t Bernie have everything to lose and nothing to gain by becoming a coach?
Look at how we shit on Bobby Meacham left and right…
goosebumps
Michael Munson needs a lesson on manners. Didn’t even shake Yogi’s hand.
maybe my favorite Yankee moment ever, the triple
what channel is this? espn isnt showing it where I am
ESPN2 and YES.
espn 2
yes and ESPN2
thanks guys, i was freaking out
like I was earlier, except they actually wasn’t getting it for awhile
Am I the only one that thinks the only reason Girardi’s part of this is because he’s the manager? He wasn’t exactly a “great” Yankee.
yea but you can say that for some guys here as well. Besides, that Triple put him in yankee lore forever.
going to be a bias toward lesser, more recent Yankees on championship teams, cause it gets the fans going and all. So definitely helps he’s the manager, but he’d probably be there anyways
he was the starting catcher on 2/3 championship teams.
he’s not much worse than Brosius, no matter what people seem to remember about Brosius’ abilities
Caught a no-hitter, perfect game and won a few rings with them. He might not have been a great offensive force but he had good timing
He caught a no-hitter? He must be a great catcher, like Jason Varitek is.
Yankee crowd: cheering
Pete Abe: BOOOO.
A-rod is probably watching madonna videos in the clubhouse
No Alvero Espinosa ?
Comeon
Jimmy Key, you’re my boy blue.
no Scott Kamieniecke?
Jimmy Key, what is he, like 45?
I could hit him…
Wow Chien Ming wang is on that list.
Haha, no Roger in the montage.
Man i would LOVE to be there tonight
Ben’s there. Bastard.
One more thing, if they gonna bring up Doc Godden, could they bring up Strawberry.
I mean, Phil Coke’s there, for christsakes… I’m SHOCKED that Gooden and Straw didn’t show up for that alone.
Chairman of the board, one of the greatest nicknames ever
Wow, Whitey and Don. Awesome.
Don Larsen’s stealin’s shit.
Were you as worried as I was that he might throw his back out or something when he bent down to scoop up the dirt?
Nice Larson taking the dirt
No Juan Figueroa?
Sterling Hitchcock?
Pascual Perez?
I’m surprised security didn’t throw Larson down and cuff him, he was stealing dirt!
i’d like to see Goose throw an inning tonight
THE GATOR. He was Chamberlain beofre Chamberlain with the stuff he had.
Lets be real, right now he could pitch better than Ponson or rasner, the Boomer.
hey Coney, how come you don’t have a dance??
haha
Here we go….
Here it is guys Centerfield.
Bernabe!!!
Oh my god BERNIE!!!
no melky?
WTF? No teh Melky?
No Melky?
Damon? Really?
did they show Giambi when they did 1B?
Yeah.
man, Bernie had a nice swing
No Kenny Lofton?
No Aaron Guiel?
That dude was awesome.
Berrrrnnn baby bernnn.
AJAX?
kidding
Didnt Yestremski get the triple crown after Mantle? Pwnt.
WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?
HELL NO! AND IT AIN’T OVER NOW!!!!!
he did.
Yas was the last player to win the Triple Crown, but Mantle was the last to win it where he led both leagues.
Mantle would have won it two years in a row if it hadn’t been for Norm Cash having his only .300+ year (.356? I think)!@#$#@!
Bernie Goes Boom.
how about a surprise and retire 51 and 21 tonight?
Holy shit, 244 comments and the game didnt even start.
Mike gonna have to make another Game Game thread… but then again new gooder servers…
My fucking RA turned the TV off for some hall council meeting right as the Centerfielders were being announced.
Kill him. Now.
She* won’t even let us put it on mute. Anybody know any bounty hunters?
kill that bitch!
Beat him about the head and neck.
I think I just shat my self.
BER-NIE
fantastic honoring of Bernie.
well done Yanks.
BERNIE!!!!!
Oh my goodness. This is awesome. Seeing Bernie in uniform again…
TOTALLY.
Mantle HR to the lights on top of the Stadium.
WOW !!!!!!!
For some reason, I feel like listening to some smooth-jazz-rock fusion all of a sudden.
you’ve been waiting to type that one, haven’t ya. lol
BERNIE!
BERNIE!!!!!!!!
Welcome home, Bernie.
This is just phenonemal
Don’t worry Bernie, we didn’t forget you.
he’s loving it
in honor of this moment, Bernie has written a cool jazz instrumental called “the eagle and the bumblebee”
HOLY SHIT THE VOICE OF GOD…
I just pissed all over myself.
OOOOOHHHH the chills just hearing the Voice of God
I swear to God, if they boo A-Rod…
Gonorrhea.
There we go.
I hate my life.
This is Sweet.
jason’s last game
Yup… they’re not even going to let him play the road trip, just euthanize him right on the track.
doesn’t sound like booing to me.
Abraham has an agenda
And a ham sandwich.
Cano in da house.
Dont jog out to fast Matsui.
he’s having surgery tomorrow, give him a break
Hava Molina!
could be Matsui’s last game in pinstripes….
I think we see him back next year
You think he’s tradeable this offseason? For pennies on the dollar, maybe.
Also…yeah, what happened with mattingly? Donnie baseball couldn’t get back for this?
Really. The Dodgers could have forfeited today’s game and still won the NL West.
Mattingly AND Torre should be here.
And Scott Proctor.
Touche.
NOBODY MAKES ME BLEED MY OWN BLOOD! NOBODY!
pudge is probably pissed
As long as he’s still getting paid for tonight’s game, he’s fine.
Power of Pinstripes.
Only the Yankees.
Nady looks like a little kid compared to Winfield
Dave Winfield once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.
Okay, that was funny. Well done.
That’s still my favorite Chuck Norris one of all time.
man, it would suck if Roberts leads off with a HR
Hip Hip!!!
to catch the first pitch, yankee catching legend, Matt Nokes!!
Mike Pagliarulo anybody?
if thats even how you spell it
10 bucks says ARod hits the last HR in the history of the stadium.
stand on the rubber Ruth!!
The only way this whole thing could’ve been even cooler would’ve been to have The Voice of God announce the original starting lineup.
Oh God please let them win the game I don’t want them to be eliminated tonight.
Not tonight, please.
Don’t worry, the Yankees don’t lose games like this.
cough Game 7 2001 cough
Shut it.
Your an ass, but that’s good one.
LOL
sign her up Cashman!!
8:14. Their a minute early.
She throws harder than Moyer.
Ruth’s grand daughter is just like “give me the damn ball”
RUTH
” THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER “
Seeing Ravech, Kruk, and Showalter after all that is like watching the Three Stooges broadcasting on the installation of a Pope.
So true
They should totally sign Winfield to play CF next year. That dude looks like he never stopped playing.
The only way this turns out correctly is if the Yankees win 1-0 on a walk-off homer by Jeter (with Pettite throwing the shutout of course)
With that flashy bat they just gave him.
nah, Mo has to pitch the last half inning
Oh Showalter and his big words
Showalter: “I guess the word is … etheral.”
hahahahahahahahahahah
STFU.
Damn yo, Jeter’s sister is kinda hot.
I missed her… went looking for a picture of her and stumbled across Jorge’s wife, and her twins…
http://cache.daylife.com/image.....d/610x.jpg
damn Jorge’s wife, damn
And what’s up with Jeter’s suit? Did he get that from MA$E’s closet?
Those handprints are sick.
Oh my god, it takes about 15 seconds to fully load the game thread already.
I’ve found it loads a lot faster on Google Crome
agreed
if you use Internet Explorer that could be the problem
I use firefox, which to my knowledge is faster than Chrome.
I’m having no trouble with Firefox.
Joe Morgan: “When I think of Yankee Stadium, I don’t think of my accomplishments.”
Well, isn’t that kind of him?
what I wondered is why would he think of his accomplishments
Because he ALWAYS thinks of his accomplishments.
Ooops, I mean…
Because he CONSISTENCY thinks of his accomplishments.
I guess he meant hitting a HR in the 1977 All-Star Game and obviously winning the WS in 1976 clinching it at Yankee Stadium.
But honestly, who gives a fuck!!!!
I was thinking of his accomplishments at the Stadium. All 17 at-bats. What a fucking moron!!
Well at least they’ll be a lot of guests in the booth tonight, the more they talk the less Morgan talks
Joe Morgan: “I think they’ll play this game because there’s something called Yankee Pride.”
Yeah, good thing they aren’t the Pittsburth Pirates, otherwise they’d just forfeit the rest of the season.
Game Time.
1000 comments tonight? LoHud’s only about 150 ahead of us right now
Let’s do it. Only fitting that we’d set the record on the Stadium’s swam song.
If it we’re at 950 an hour after the game, it could be like a little kid trying to get the last 10 wallposts on someone’s wall just to get to a 1000…
Any there any way to make a new thread? My browser keeps crashing when I try to load this one…
Gammons couldn’t even make it 100 words before mentioning the Red Sox.
Fucker.
He tried.
Its almost freaky how similarly Joba looks like Babe.
He did say earlier this season that he’s “a good hitter, no not just for a pitcher, a good hitter”
I just started crying. Is anyone else feeling this way? I feel weird.
Wonder if Jamal is at the game, or just enjoyed the pre-game ceremonies quietly
wow, i can’t wait to check out the new stadium next year. its gonna be awesome!
Where’s Ben sitting?
Miller and Morgan = Beavis and Butthead.
I’ve never missed Michael Kay more than right now.
Spike lee in the bleachers
alright camera for the roll call
that was pretty cool
Oh yeah, and BOX SEATS SUCK!
sweet. they should show the roll call for every game…
How can ya not like Damon.
Bobby got it TWICE!
And didn’t drop the ball, either.
bonus!
So is A-Rod going to have an 0′fer tonight? or is he going to knock the cover off the ball?
I don’t like this Charlie Waters character. His numbers are too shitty for the Yanks to have a chance.
And by Charlie I mean Chris.
From the commercial: “And in the final year of the century, the Yankees win their 25th championship!”
That would be the 1999 title (the 25th), which is NOT the last year of the century, it’s the second to the last. Was that Jon Miller’s voice? Sounded like it to me.
Idiot.
What the hell? You know facts have no place here.
So what’s up people, anyone having issues getting the site to load? I’ll start a new thread if need be, but the new server’s working great for me. Loads right up.
Working great for me as well. Loading super fast.
ditto
same, i think the issue is it will load like shit on IE sometimes where other browsers are fine
Well IE sucks like that
It’s working fine here.
Nope, I’m good–took about 5 seconds last time, but no big deal. Using Firefox
I’m using Safari at the moment. Both Firefox and IE have crashed.
I love that only Jeter has the balls to have Cameo’s “Candy” as his intro music.
It’s the official song of strippers left and right, and yet he makes it look cool.
The Strippers’s anthem LOL.
Waters looked good there
But is he any good or just another mediocre lefty who dominates nobody but the Yankees?
The latter.
Bobby Abreu, Professional DH.
Listening to it on the radio. Me and my gf just broke up today after over a year together, took the bus back from Boston and today’s our anniversary. Everything was great but I’m not Jewish so it was a tough spot to be in.
ANYWAY, she is also a Yankees fan so I bought the 8-pack season tickets for us this summer, they were all memorable. I read Steve’s post about thinking about someone you love and man it’s been a tear jerker just realizing that after tonight no one will ever play a professional ball game again in that space ever again. All in the name of money.
So, yeah – I’m not too proud to say I cried a bit during the opening. Friend’s coming over and we’ll head to a bar to watch it. She’s not a fan but she did come to a game with me.
Bros before hos. Go Yanks.
Truer words have never been spoken….
“Friend’s coming over and we’ll head to a bar to watch it. She’s not a fan but she did come to a game with me.”
Fuck her gently, Tenacious D style.
Kinda sad that George Steinbrenner isnt at the game. Funny thing is Pete Abe noted that Hal is there but not big-mouth Hank.
They HAVE to win this game.. .right?
They will.
Oh yes they will. i wonder how jeets hand is. that thing they gave him was absolutely gorgeous. your thoughts? on that and the ceremony as a whole. i thought the 1927 yankee thing was sorta corny but o well
crystal bat was pretty damn sweet
too bad no boss there. notice how hal not hank was there lmao
There’s Pettitte doing his thing (sucking) for one last time this season.
Alright Andy, no more, jitters should be gone
if there is no HR hit tonight, who currently holds the last HR at the Stadium?
Robbie Cano
I think it’s Robbie Cano.
Cano
Cano from Friday night.
Cano.
Im calling it, A-Rod is gonna park one.
An unclutch leadoff walk.
He could definitely be taking off here too, the guy is hardly even looking over
Watch him get picked off.
I cant believe Giambi still has the nWo Wolfpack theme song as his song when he comes up to hit.
Ok who else is man enough to admit they are gonna cry like a bitch when mo comes in for the last time with his regular skip and a jogg to entersandman? say “I” illl start it off.. I
I teared up earlier, and I’m sure I’ll do it again.
You punk bitch.
What do they say, don’t trust a man with 2 first names? You’ve got like, 4 of ‘em man. Your opinion means NADA to me. Biznatch.
Calm down, I’m just breaking your balls.
Now GO HOME AND GET YOUR FUCKING SHINEBOX.
is that an I OR NOT! lol.
Yeah i teared up a bit during the ceremonies ill admit.
I (probably)
Last time i cried watching a sports event was during Ewing’s jersey number retirement ceremony. Probably was only Knicks fan doing so.
I got a little emotional, the tears almost came out but I held it up.
Why do we have so many problems with shitty pitchers? Nice catch btw
dude. its the second inning not even the first time thru the order. keep yer trap shutt my brotherrr
Damn, I thought he punched that through
It’s such a shame we have to say goodbye to the Stadium while watching this pathetic offense get dominated once again.
We’re only 7 batters into it
these people need to quit it with this grab-assing bullshit. its not even the first time thru the order. can they possibly understand the emotion of these men? NO. so everyone cut ur shit and kick back. mute the TV and listen to sterling.
geez pettite
Joe Morgan man….so awkward.
he interrupter Whitey a few times…
Lesson learned: Don’t shake off Yogi
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Haha Yogi is like don’t even go there Morgan, he was out