Open Thread: Inside the new Stadium
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The view from center field. (Photo courtesy of WCBS Sports Director Jared Max/WFAN)
In one week from tonight, Mike and I will have seen our first game at new Yankee Stadium. This afternoon, we nabbed a pair of Grandstand tickets off of StubHub for Saturday’s exhibition game in the Bronx against the Cubs. (Joe is flying in that day from a Vegas trip and couldn’t make it with us.) We’ll have a full post up about it then.
In the meantime, take a look at this photo set from WFAN.com. The CBS Sports Director Jared Max had the run of the stadium with his camera this week, and the pictures look great. We’ve got field view shots of the whole park, glimpses of Tommy Bahamas and the ever-popular Garlic Fries and some handy exit signs.
The photos also allow us to see some of the quirks and intricacies of the new park. For example, the plate is closer to the backstop than at old Yankee Stadium. So pitchers will lose a few foul pop outs. There’s still not a lot of foul territory in the outfield either.
While the Yanks are rumored to be keeping the overplayed Y.M.C.A. dance, on a happier note, the organ made the trip across the street. Anyway, poke around those photo sets. From wider concourses to more legroom, the park looks like a baseball playground.
Jeter Day-to-Day with Pinky Bruise
Joe will have a longer game recap at midnight with some thoughts on the CF battle and the long reliever debate, but I wanted to drop in a quick injury update. Yankees Captain and starting short stop Derek Jeter left today’s game with an injured lefty pinky knuckle. He bruised his finger in a first-inning collision with Braves’ first baseman Greg Norton but remained in the game. He is listed as day-to-day and plans to play tomorrow.
Anyway, here’s your open thread. You know what to do.
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The stadium looks more amazing with each new set of pics. I am one for tradition and was opposed to a new stadium. Once it became a reality, I accepted it and am now more than excited to walk inside. I’ll be there Fri & Sta and I doubt I’ll be watching much of the game.
Have you seen it yet? I was there on wednesday picking up some tickets. It is massive, totally state of the art and gorgeous. It’s the Baseball version of the Vatican. Everyone else plays in a ballpark, the Yanks play in the Roman Collesium in its heyday.
I havent seen it since Nov. What you said is pretty much what everyone is saying. I have a friend who works for the company that built it and he said the same. He couldn’t get me inside, but he did get me one of the hardhats the construction crew wore. I gotta get it signed.
Is it possible for Jeter to go a year without injuring his hand?
With Cabrera to the Nats, maybe.
Thats what I was hoping..
Jeters pimp hand is not as strong as we thought I guess.
This is for Rebecca, she has some compañeros out there.
http://janeheller.mlblogs.com/.....ng_th.html
Although I hope it doesn’t sour her too much on being a Yankee fan.
I read Jane’s book, just finished last night actually, and while I enjoyed it and thought it to be an amusing look at the Yanks through the eyes of a fan, I’m 100 percent unsurprised that the Yankees don’t like it. I’ll write more later when I get around to reviewing it, but she really slams the Yankee front office. She tried to go over, under, around and through Jason Zillo once he turned down her request for access, and the Yankees are doing what most of us would do in their position.
That said, what was Rebecca saying? I haven’t seen her around here lately.
Nothing, I just thought she would get a kick out of that book.
Papelbon and the sox pen are going to hear alot from the creatures out there
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Ill never forget how the stadium destroyed Papelbon in the All Star game and he blew the game.
That was so awesome. The fact that NY fans would rather jeer papelbon and get inside his head rather than root for the AL to win the game was quintessential NY. I loved it.
My daughter was at the game, I was at the Bon Jovi show at MSG. She sent me a text when Drew hit the HR that said “Drew just hit a HR, Ill cheer for him over my dead body”.
HAHAH you have her trained well.
Some good stuff on Montero in this piece from BA today:
http://www.baseballamerica.com.....ts/?p=2951
Definitely discouraging news about his catching skills.
The kid’s only 19, he has so much time to work on blocking balls and nailing down his footwork. Footwork and blocking balls are one of the few things that hard work and dedication can fix (as opposed to natural gifts like 98 mph fasball, insane bat speed etc etc.) I did a quick glance at the top few guys on their Prospect Pistols section. Most of those guys played their most recent seasons at age 21 or 22. That’s three full years of either college or professional coaching. That’s a pretty big advantage over a 18 year old from Venezuela in his first professional season.
Basically there’s still lots of time for him to work on those things.
http://www.wfan.com/pages/4096.....3178#imgXR
I wonder how the rally squirrel will like his new pole?
OMG THAT BIG STUPID YELLOW POLE IS BLOCKING MY VIEW!!! BILLION DOLLAR STADIUM AND THERE’S BIG YELLOW POLES EVERYWHERESSSS
Hey, its New York. People complain about everything.
If you were one of the unlucky people to have your seats right in front of that damn thing, as my family was, perhaps you wouldn’t be trying and failing so hard at being funny.
Using stupid internet language to make a point or make fun of something has not only gotten old and way overused, but its pretty much counter productive at this point.
Maybe because your family had to suffer through your season ticket placement you’re hypersensitive about it and can’t take a joke.
Wow, the state of comedy is so bad we can’t make jokes about poles anymore. Poles! What on earth is left for us to kid around about.
BTW-I don’t mean the Polish of course. Who are a fine people.
Think what you want meat head!
Dude, my family was robbed at gunpoint by a couple of yellow poles the other day. Not funny.
IETC
As did I.
Nice, my first and second IETCs in what I hope is a long and prosperous career. It’s like my first major league curtain call.
IDNETC
UCCCOOOOOONNNNNNNNN
Final Four!! The Dove is leading them to the promised land!
http://www.wfan.com/pages/4096.....3162#imgXR
Nice. That’s an old school ballpark right there.
And the frieze that surrounds the stadium really evokes the original stadium built in 1923.
http://www.yankeephotos.com/Pr.....d2Base.jpg
They did a great job of blending the old with the new.
Mark Texiera interview on WFAN via MLBTR:
“I always had the Yankees in my sights, and one thing my agent and I had asked every single team is, we’re not going to negotiate through the media, and we ask you not to,” Teixeira said. “The Yankees were really the only team that did that. The other teams went out and told everybody their offers, told everybody that they talked to me, that they made this call, made that trip. The Yankees kept quiet. We talked all winter. When they were ready to make their final offer, it was a great offer, and my wife and I were excited about going to New York.”
Asked specifically about the Red Sox, who made their December 18 visit to his home in Texas public knowledge, Teixeira admitted to being bothered: “I think in the end, it probably worked against them a little bit, because everyone thought the Red Sox were my No. 1 choice. … The Yankees had a leg up all along.
Interesting tactics and they definitely worked, I was shocked when I saw Tex to the Yankees on ESPN.
Ha, yeah. I was sitting in a restaurant with ESPN on and literally jumped out of my chair and had to restrain myself from screaming until I ran outside.
Great day…..great day.
So I’m going to the game on 4/3.
Who’s going and going to say hi for me?
*hi to me
Mike and I are going. Where are you sitting?
Section: Grandstand Outfield 434 A
Row: 10
Seats: 21,22
I’ll probably be late to the game…I have class till seven and got the professor to not care if I leave ten minutes early, but it till takes me a half hour to get down there. (a fact I conveniently forgot when I bought the tickets)
Oh wait. Sorry. Mike and I are going on Saturday the fourth. Got my dates mixed up. We’ll be at the day game.
OO I’m goin to the saturday game, section 427. I’ll be the one drinking beer wearing yankee gear.
Ill be there both days..friend has the tix so Im not sure where I am sitting. I know its in the Grandstand.
Lucky.
I have a question for all you Yankee fans out there. I’m a college student looking to see a few games over my summer break, but I don’t want to spend a ton of money. Do bleacher seats sell out early and how are they in terms of gameday? I figure these are the cheapest and easiest seats to get, but I could be wrong.
Usually all the game are sold out through the box office. Whenever I go I just scour craigslist or stubhub the morning of and you can usually find someone desperate. Granted you’ll have to pay more for sox or mets but you can still get good tickets for 25-35 bucks.
Bingo, that’s what I was going to suggest.
Does anyone else feel that our batters may be extremely bothered by the massive screen straight behind the pitching mound??
Presumably they will not show any graphics while players are batting. Would MLB even allow that?
Probably no moving graphics, just a picture of the batter with his stats.
That’s part of the home field advantage. When our hitters are at the plate, they will play film of Babe Ruth hitting HR’s, Niel Armstrong landing on the moon and V-Day from WW2.
When the opposing hitters are at the plate, they will show the Hindenburg crash, Hurricane Katrina and the Zapruder film.
When opponents bat they’re gonna play that film ben linus tried to branwash carl with.
“branwash”? That sounds painful, I’ll stick with soap.
Couldn’t they just play American Idol?
Carl Pavano says hello..?
Speaking of the ‘Idle’, if I figured it out correctly (#3 starter) he should be back in Yankee stadium on Sunday April 19th.
Can’t wait to see Carl again. I’m sure the Yankee fans will be very gracious after all the memories he’s given us.
Incredibly kind to Carl.
I miss him terribly.
But that’s just because my aim sucks.
I could see that guy pitching a no hitter against us.
Just to screw over the yankees one more time.
no way, they will light him up.
I hope so.
We should have built the new stadium without a Megatron screen. Then maybe we’d be just as successful as the Cubbies!
im so excited to see the inside of this stadium. looks amazing. and like someone said above, the exterior looks amazing as well. especially on the Jerome Ave side.
does anyone know which bullpen will be for the Yanks?
This is what Girardi had to say about David Robertson who was sent down today:“He threw the ball OK,” Girardi said. “It’s important he go down and get some work. Robbie’s performed at this level pretty well at times and he performed for us at spring training pretty well at times. He’s a man who has, I think, a good future. He needs to continue a little to mature a little but as pitcher. I told him there’s a chance we’ll see him this year.”
“There’s a chance we’ll see him this year.” I would have thought they will definitely see him at some point this year.
Source: http://yankees.lhblogs.com/200.....t-men-out/
He’s a victim of the Yankee depth in relievers. He doesn’t have any outstanding qualities that makes him really intriguing. Good makeup, good fastball, very good curve and OK control. I always thought he would end up as trade bait and still do.
“He doesn’t have any outstanding qualities that makes him really intriguing.”
Dude has a sick curve.
Giardi also said that they probably wont have a long man when they break camp.
My guess now is that they DFA Giese (hope he passes threw waiverrs)and put Berroa on the 40 man. That way no hard decission on a 40 man spot.
Except of course the very act of putting such a waste as Berrora on the 40 man roster is in and of itself painful.
No, he said “its possible” they won’t have a long man. Which tells us that most likely, they will.
It looks like it will be Tomko, who I’ll bet will be off the team by June.
Yeah, is Tomko’s upside that great that you risk losing Giese, who pitched better last year than Tomko has pitcher in years, if ever?
The real question is: how great is Giese’s upside?
I think last year was more the Aaron Small effect (capturing lightning in a bottle).
But I’d rather see Giese get the chance to prove he is or isn’t Aaron Small. We know what Tomko is, and it’s not very good. Tomko has never caught lightning in a bottle, and he’s had plenty of opportunities.
Tomko, Geise.
Meh.
exactly.
they are both fodder. Tomko has looked better, so he might get Giese’s spot. who cares?
if the Yankees get to a point this year where they regret cutting Giese, things will have gone horribly, horribly awry.
Yeah, its the long man out of the pen we’re talking about. You can grab a guy off waivers to fill that role.
Tomko had an AL ERA+ of 61 last year, Giese 126 in comparable innings. That should hold some weight.
Oh yeah? Well you can sponsor his page on BR for $10.
http://www.baseball-reference......da01.shtml
How good can he be if it only costs ten freakin bucks to sponsor his page? David Ortiz’s page costs over $300!!!
And, you should have added, Brett Tomko’s page is already sponsored, so he must be better than Giese.
Case closed.
Well yes, but its sponsored by a cult of child molesters.
I don’t think that settles anything, no siree.
Yeah pretty much.
And its possible we don’t see either of them in the Bronx this year.
Hopefully you never see him. That means your starting 5 are doing their jobs well.
I think a long man could help save the pen and the starters alot.
Say Wang’s sinker is off and he’s out in the 3rd. Or say Joba is up 7-0 in the fourth inning. Put in Tomko/Giese and let them play mop up and save Joba’s innings.
I’ve read your comment 3 times, read my comment 4 times, and I still can’t figure out for the life of me why a word of what I said made you feel necessary to respond the way you did.
You sir, are an enigma.
And you sir, are a vestigio. See, I can make up words too.
You said “Hopefully you never see him. That means your starting 5 are doing their jobs well.”
Then I pointed out one situation where you could see them because a starter is doing well.
And it was in a conversation about long relief.
Finally we have a good bball game on.
Damn you Pitt!!! Those missed FTs (and all perfectly made FTs by Nova)were killer, as was the walk by Blair.
man, if Villanova lost that braindead inbounds heave would go down in infamy….
too bad that didnt happen, my bracket’s gone as I had picked them to win it all.
my bracket’s been dead since the 2nd round…
i was 30th/500 in the lohud tourney. Then Mizzou won.
I’m watching the 77 series on YES. When did people start wearing jerseys to the games (fans)?
Anybody else watch Mythbusters? I gotta say, I have a little crush on that girl Kari, she’s pretty cute.
I’ve only watched it once, but yeah, you’re right about Kari.
Jeez Ben, 5 posts in a row. Nice work. They don’t make you write appellate briefs at NYU?
You know what they say: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
The appellate brief was handed in last week — or at least draft number 1 was. Monday is my critique conference.
Han-Ram demanded a trade oday only to “change his mind” hours later
after a meeting with management. If he were on the block what would you be willing to give up in a trade?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/co.....int.column
My left nut.
Would Hughes+ IPK + Romine or Montero get it done?
Doubtful. They’d want to eviscerate us. Think Hughes, Ajax, Montero with a few fillers like z-mac and coke.
If this story is true, he has some issues. If he were to be traded to the Yankees he would have to cut his hair as well, so would he be upset and ask to be traded?
I’d imagine he would be willing to do that if his team’s payroll was over 20 mil.
Corn rows would be fine on the Yanks…no?
Obviously jewelry and tattoos are acceptable.
I would be willing to sacrifice drew’s left nut as well.
Hell, I’d also throw in Drew’s right nut if that’s what it takes.
USA scores off a corner kick with 3 minutes left! tie game.
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