Movin’ the mud

November 9, 2008 by Benjamin Kabak 8 Comments

Yesterday, this motley crew of late-1990s Yankees gathered to move some dirt and home plate from one stadium to the other. In town for the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation dinner honoring the 1998 team, Jeff Nelson, Scott Brosius, Paul O’Neill and David Cone were among the Yankee luminaries who took part in this ceremony.

The weather, as MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo wrote, wasn’t the most cooperative, and the ceremony turned into one involving more mud than dirt. But in the end, everyone seemed to offer up praise for the new stadium.

Check out MLB.com’s photogallery of the event here.

pat

Jeff nelson looks like the harbinger of death.
- steve (different one)
  
  hilarious. Brosius looks like Homer Simpson.
  - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Mr. Snarky Irrelevant Non Sequitur Jones
    
    Actually, I was about to say Brosius looks like the Gerald Ford drawing from the Simpsons.
    
    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/351106233_c40ac089fd_m.jpg
dan

Cone’s thinking, “Wow, I remember the plate being a lot bigger when I was still playing.”
- steve (different one)
  
  if you watch the video of his perfect game, it was about 8 inches wider on either side.
Steve

Paulie should still be playing. I bet hes just as good as Matsui currently is.
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Mr. Snarky Irrelevant Non Sequitur Jones
  
  Yes, but more watercooler-smashing and less Asian-porn collecting would be a bad thing.
http://www.nosenseworrying.com/ Jen

I was scheduled to take the 12:00 tour on Saturday. They didn’t let us in until 12:30 because of the “Mud Ceremony”. We did get to see Brosius, Nelson, and O’Niell go into the Stadium though.