Quick hits: Wells, toilets and YES
ByNo, this isn’t some odd Sesame Street style game of “One of These Doesn’t Belong.” It is, instead, three short stories all rolled into one post.
David Wells to join TBS broadcast
Outspoken former Yankee David Wells has signed a multiyear deal to join the TBS baseball crew. He’ll be serving as an in-game analysts for TBS’ baseball broadcasts throughout the year. We’ll have to see if he can announce with a hangover as well as he can pitch with one. Ostensibly, he’s replacing Harold Reynolds in the booth, but those are big shoes to fill. I’m going to judge him based on whether or not he thinks Joba should be in the starting rotation.
YES, on FiOS, to be available nationally
Good news with a bad twist for Yankee fans living outside of the New York area: The YES Network has become the first regional sports network to earn national distribution of sorts. As Maury Brown reported earlier today, the HD version of the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network will be available nationally on Verizon FiOS’ Extreme HD packages. That does not, however, include game broadcasts for either the Yankees or Nets. Baseball’s territorial rules do not permit it.
Toilets for Everyone and an Accessible Stadium
With New York City officially opening two new baseball stadiums this week, the local papers are going all out in their coverage. Yesterday, The Times covered the topic of toilets. New Yankee Stadium will have 30 percent more toilet fixtures than the old park, with the following breakdown: 369 women’s toilets; 98 toilets and 298 urinals for men; and 78 unisex bathrooms for families and luxury suite patrons. I can personally attest to the bathrooms at the new stadium. They’re clean, roomy and much, much nicer than those at the old park.
In other stadium news, Yanks’ COO Lonn Trost and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York touted the accessibility of the new stadium this afternoon. While the new park had to be ADA-compliant, the federal government has praised the new stadium as going above and beyond the call of duty. Most notable is the accessible paths to the field. Fans in wheelchairs can now enter the field during stadium tours.
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I second the bathroom thing. I’m a women, these things matter.
“Good news with a bad twist for Yankee fans living outside of the New York area: The YES Network has become the first regional sports network to earn national distribution of sorts. As Maury Brown reported earlier today, the HD version of the Yankees Entertain and Sports Network will be available nationally on Verizon FiOS’ Extreme HD packages. That does not, however, includ”
So YES will be available nationally, but those that live in the dorms at Fordham do not get it! (I get it, but I don’t live in a dorm, yay grad school)
You can’t get YES in the Fordham dorms? Why not?
is it a ban on real time game broadcasts? Do you get the encores?
Yeah, I don’t get it here despite the entire area getting it.
And Syracuse still sucks.
We get it over here at my school in new jersey, and we don’t get SNY, which i enjoy, because i can brag to my friends who are mets fan about how they don’t get to watch any games
I got YES in Syracuse, so it doesn’t suck.
I’m not sure why not. I just know my friend Brent always mentions he has to listen to Jon and Suzyn.
How nice can a bathroom be if Babe Ruth never took a dump in it?
Last Thursday I christened a urinal “The Urinal In Which Raul Evacuated.” They better invite my grandchildren to pee in the new ones first when they replace those things.
IETC. Thoroughly.
lmao… nice
David Wells on YES? Oh man. I really hope they pair him up with Paulie. That would be awesome. Although, David Wells in a suit and reading off a teleprompter might turn out like this:
Except he’ll be on TBS.
Oh UWS, and your acute attention to detail.
Heh…oops. Missed that minute detail. Same concept though.
I have a hunch that Wells won’t be a B-Jobber. Wells has never been one to be beholden to conventional wisdom or those that espouse it. I actually kind of think (hope) that the identity of those who ARE B-Jobbers will make it more likely he’ll take the opposite point of view. Whatever, who knows. Just a hunch.
While it’s good to hear that the bathrooms are clean, I’d be worried if they weren’t. There have been a whopping two games so far at the stadium, so I’d be worried if that’s all it takes to make them a mess.
You’d be surprised at what a crowd of fans can do. Apparently, as one of the toilets I used last Sunday demonstrated, fans can’t be bothered to life the toilet seat before pissing all over it even in a new bathroom.
At least its no public HS men’s bathroom.
*Shudders*
I can imagine… 50,000+ people using bathrooms that they have no responsibility for can get ugly quickly. But if it was a mess now, I don’t want to think what it would look like in a few years.
That does not, however, include game broadcasts for either the Yankees or Nets. Baseball’s territorial rules do not permit it.
Why were Braves games allowed to be shown on TBS around the country?
Because TBS was a national basic cable station, not a local station being broadcast outside its local area? That’s a really good point, I have no idea.
Why ARE Cubs game shown nationally on WGN?
David Wells, Toilets & YES…open the envelope…Things that are full of crap. Hiyooo!!
That is wild and wacky stuff.
DirecTV has had YES for a while now… is it the same deal, where they can’t show broadcasts of games, either? This could really mess up my Yankee-watching plans in a new house…
Sorry. I wasn’t clear about this in the post. DirecTV is satellite. That’s a different set of rules and regs. FiOS is the first cable delivery system to carry an RSN out of market.