The new bag policy: The terrorists have finally lost
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The Yankee Blog Universe is all a-buzz with news of a changed bag policy from Yankee Stadium. RAB’s own Leokitty first posted the news on Friday, and Ross and Andrew both picked it up over the weekend.
In a nutshell, the terrorists have finally lost as the Yankees will, for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001, allow fans to carry bags with them into the stadium. Similar to at an airport, bags must fit into this box, and the Yankees have amended their stadium rules:
Diaper bags, small backpacks, small purses and bags are permitted. However, in accordance with Major League Baseball security regulations, bags larger than 16 x 16 x 8 inches will not be allowed into the Stadium. Briefcases, large backpacks, large purses and bags, coolers and hard-sided bags and containers are also not permitted. All bags must be thoroughly inspected before they are permitted into the Stadium. Box templates shall be used at inspection points, and bags and their contents must fit without assistance, modification or adjustment. The Yankees reserve the right to inspect any bags, clothing or other articles prior to entry into Yankee Stadium and prohibit entry or require removal of any items the Yankees deem inappropriate or potentially injurious to Yankee Stadium, other patrons or field personnel.
I am quite relieved by this long-delayed rule change. During the summer of 2001, I journeyed to 12 stadiums in 10 cities and carried a backpack with me to every single game. After the 9/11 attacks, stadiums stopped allowing bags into ballparks, but over the next few years, those stadiums outside of New York relaxed their standards.
A few years ago, fans could once again bring bags into Shea Stadium, but the Yankees were obstinate in their bag policies. My apartment was, at one point, home to tens of cheap clear plastic bags with the Yankee logo on them. Last year, the Yanks started allowing any plastic bag into the park, and now, bags — messengers bags, small backpacks — are back. The terrorists have definitely lost.
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in unrelated news…
jarrod washburn sucks
I actually approve of this off-topic comment. Bravo, and well done.
tsjc, anytime i get your approval, i feel awesome
Ahem…lol
haha you are a close second
I suppose I’m just choppedl liver!
What the buchholz is that!
/meme’d
haha money
Haha, see this is just as stupid as mine but people just ignore his. Had I posted mine…there would have been a 40 post argument back and forth with clever “facepalm” URL’s attached.
Congrats RRR…you found a way around it…I still don’t know how but you found it…lol
Trade secret. Can’t tell you.
Well, this one, while sucking, is better than the Chone Figgins one.
Kneel, Dela G.
[pulls out sword (not that one) and taps Dela G. on the shoulders]
And arise, Sir Dela G.
[Dela G becomes smoak type bat, then traded for brad penny]
[/never gets old
Got something on your nose man.
[Makavelli pukes up a little vomit but immediately swallows it back down while clapping]
lol
Who woulda thunk it?
Oh wait… haha
That’s good I guess.
Don’t you mean the terriosts, Ben?
(golf clap)
Reached back into the wayback machine for that one.
Okay, I have to ask…terriost?
There’s a dude that used to post on here called “touchtoneterriost“.
He always said off the wall, nonsensical crap, and I constantly asked him why he misspelled his own name. Never got an answer.
Ah, thanks.
I sometimes thought he was Lanny.
No. Lanny is Bo, Sal, and Grant. But no other names, just those four.
Gotcha. What happened to that terriost guy anyway? Did he get banned because I havent seen hi around here in a while.
He is now known as Joba or Hughes to the pen.
Makes too much sense.
Heh. Figures.
I wonder if people on here will eventually realize that it’s pointless to change your name, because you’re going to get outed eventually.
Well, that answers to my answer from above. That’s hilarious though.
Makes sense with the lack of punctuation now that you mention it
Yup.
Every time Joe drops a dime on someone, I feel like Frank Vitchard, angry that I didn’t see it coming.
i personally think brendo is part of the sal/bo/grant/lanny quartet…therefore making it a….uh…quintet?
JoePow went on the record saying Brendo is not Bo/Sal/Grant/Lanny.
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-408890
However, I have an alternative theory. You, jsb, are the one who most vehemently alleged that Brendo was Sal/Bo/Grant/Lanny, and yet, look at this:
jsBRENDOg
IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG!!!!!!!
ha, you got me!
yeah he said it’s not bo etc. but he does it by IP if i am not mistaken. Therefore it could be him from a different computer. I mostly use my one from work, but there is at least one other person from work who posts on here occassionally, and where we both have the same first two numbers in our ip, the last two are most certainly different.
not to mention I have an outside dsl line at my desk too for testing so right there I’ve got 2 completely different ips, throw in my home ocmputer and i could post as two different people during the day and a 3rd at night.
so, i’m sticking to my brendo = bo/sal/grant/lanny.
esp since sal/grant/brendo all disappeared around the same time
i always wonder what people change their names too. It’s hard to fathom they’d just stop posting after doing so so regularly…..
like, is dbhof lurking out there as someone else? is he pinstripedestiny in a vie for retribution?
In a nutshell, the terrorists have finally lost as the Yankees will, for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001, allow fans to carry bags with them into the stadium.
AWESOME.
So, then, we’re downgraded from “Trailer Trash” to “Al Franken”?
http://www.badblue.com/temp/threat-level2s.jpg
But the question remains…what the hell is a terriost?
Ben, what was your route on your 12 park stadium tour? I’ve wanted to do one for a while, but don’t know when on earth I’ll get around to it
Due to the vagaries of the schedule it was: Boston, New York, New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Chicago, Kansas City, Atlanta, Baltimore.
Had the Phillies been home, we would have stopped there. We covered them on a subsequent road trip. Had I read the map properly, we would have gone to Milwaukee in between the two Chicago games. But I failed there. It was a blast.
Since then, I’ve also done the shorter Boston, New York, Philly, DC, Baltimore, New York trip, and the San Francisco, Anaheim, San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland trip as well.
Why no St. Louis? Isn’t that park real somewhat close to Kansas City’s?
Only if your route has you driving across the state of Missouri. Plus, as Ben stated, it was all schedule driven, so if the Cards were on a road trip, he’d have missed them.
Kaufmann is a great park, though. Don’t sell it short.
Yup. You have to drive through St. Louis to get anywhere from Kansas City going east. The Cardinals were amidst a long road trip when we were traveling. We missed that one too.
Did you go to the Negro League Museum? It’s pretty awesome.
http://www.nlbm.com/
I did. It was great. That’s an understated baseball museum.
What can you bring in your bag? I’m assuming, shirts, blankets, cameras, and other things of that nature…but what about your own snacks and such? I remember I brought a camera a few years ago and because it had the ability to video record a certain amount of minutes (what camera doesn’t?)…they wanted to confiscate it from me. I, of course, ripped them apart due to it being ridiculous…so they finally let me go through with it thankfully.
And what girl/woman has a small purse these days anymore by the way? Almost none of them…
Basically. Your grandmother can enter…and your girlfriend if she borrows your grandmothers purse…
Wear a hoodie and you can do anything. I once took a whole box of large pizza into a theater by hiding it in my hoodie. It was great but I smelled like Pizza for the rest of the day.
JSB once smuggled in a buttload of oaktag inside his hoodie.
What’s this running “oaktag” line. What’s it mean?? Is there a tab on this site where you can look up all these clever online responses to people? lol
We really need to get a compendium put up here…
Read, and enjoy.
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-373788
Thank you very much. I feel like a new man now…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3fkJiojxRY (safe)
You should feel like OAKTAG right now!
I feel like that got overused quick and died pretty quick. And my bangwagon never took off….though I’m not giving up yet!
yeah i was kinda frustrated. i mean, i’m glad i started a meme and everything, but by the time i actually saw something batshitinsane enough to use it on it’d been driven into the ground by everyone else…in like 3 days…
shit went viral, dawg
Read this thread: http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....nny-11420/
Thanks!
well and played
You can bring food as long as it’s pre=packaged or in a clear bag. I brought Junior’s cheesecake to a game this year… delish! You can also bring drinks if they’re unopened.
They never really upheld the small purse rule, I brought a medium sized one in all the time.
It usually contained some combination of scorecards, papers from work, food and drinks of the game, a Nintendo DS Lite/DSi, two cameras, my makeup bag and a lot of pens and pencils.
Phase 1: Get Yankees to allow small bags into the stadium.
Phase 2: Get Yankees to allow River Ave. Hookers into the stadium.
Yea, we definitely need to get Ben, Joe, and Mike press credentials for the Stadium.
Phase 1: Get Yankees to allow small bags into the stadium.
What kind of “small bag” are you insinuating over there TSJC??? Hmmm???
This new bag policy is the bomb!
/bound, gagged, and drug, away by YSII security ninjas
So are they dragging you away for using an expression that is long past it’s prime and should probably die a slow death or for mentioning the word bomb in a Stadium?
I go with the former.
Heh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeixbIQRx68 (NSFW, and I pray to Mo that you appreciate satire if you watch this clip.)
One of my teachers in high school told me she was “really offended” by Blazing Saddles until she “finally realized it was satire.”
/facepalm’d
hahahah
She was a Sox fan from Lowell. I’m not surprised.
Oh, baby, you are so talented… and they are so dumb.
/bound, gagged, and drug, away
How is that any different from a typical night with pat?
Haha IETC
hahah, yes I do too. +1
“I don’t want to go on a rant, here, but America’s foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenestrates it’s like Raskolnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate…”
Doesn’t defenestrate mean to throw off a building?
Close.
Technically means “to throw out of a window”.
throw out a window
What the hell is a rant?
What the hell’s a rant?
damn. beat me to it.
I still don’t understand this seeing as how I brought a tote bag into every game with me last year.
You are a female. Men were held to higher bag standards. I’m not kidding.
Yeah, they always gave me grief for my man-purse.
What’s that? That’s not why they were giving me grief? Oh, nevermind, then.
Well let’s call it even for the fact that I can’t wear a Jeter of A-Rod shirt to the Stadium and I can’t start Boston Sucks chants cause my voice isn’t loud enough.
It’s all good, you’re okay with us.
(Are you hot? If so, you’re okay with us.)
Well let’s call it even for the fact that I can’t wear a Jeter of A-Rod shirt
Why not?
Stereotypes.
Guys are always like “who’s your favorite Yankee, Derek Jeter?”
“No, go diaf.”
Not that I won’t wear a Jeter or A-Rod shirt, I have like 7 Jeters and an A-Rod, just not to the Stadium.
Got it.
“go diaf”..
Die
In
A
Fire
?
That would be hilarious if that is what it stood for!
That is exactly what it stands for.
http://www.urbandictionary.com.....?term=diaf
I love increasing my vocabulary of absolutely terrible things to say to people.
I feel like it’s less terrible when I acronym it.
It’s a popular term on a message board I’ve been on for about 4 years.
Yeah, those commenters on jonasbros.com are pretty vicious, IMO they should all diaf.
How’d you know???
Yeah, those commenters on jonasbros.com are pretty vicious, IMO they should all diaf.
(golf clap)
Sometime this year, sitting about 4 rows in front of me was I (COUNT EM 7!!!!) teenage girls (around 16 or 17) in a row and every one of them had an Arod shirt on.
That I should have been a 7
Precisely
Because she’s a woman of discriminating taste who likes to support the lesser-known players on the team, okay?
GET OFF THE WOMAN’S BACK, YOU JERKFACE!!!!!
Don’t worry, Kiersten, I got you. He won’t hurt you again.
Do they make D-Rob t-shirt jerseys? If so, I want one.
Not sure, but I’ve seen Gardner shirts on people but I can’t find them in stores. Kind of like the elusive Hughes 65 shirts. Frustrating.
I have a Hughes 65 AND a Cano 22. There’s a Soriano 33 hanging in my closet, too.
I have a Cano 22 and I think I have a Soriano 33 too, not positive. Couldn’t find a Hughes 65 so I settled for a 34 on sale with an 08 YS patch. It was 10 bucks, so why not?
http://www.fansedge.com/New-Yo.....12_PD.html
I’d like to get one that says “Sanchez” and has the number #300.
Then you’d need a friend with a Duncan jersey next to you.
Seriously, though, if I didn’t find named Yankee shirts ghastly abhorrent, I’d get a Gerald Williams #29. That’s my boy.
see i don’t mind the named t shirts, i like it.
but wheni see people with named jerseys (which i saw multiple times in the bleachers Friday night) i want to punch them.
come on, there’s a reason there’s no names on the jersey!!! it’s so a giambi jersey can become a tex jersey for 15 bucks on ebay because the seller is a moron!!!!
You just need to do some vocal exercises. Anyone who’s ever been near me at a game can tell you how loud my voice is when it needs to be.
leokitty’s got a great set of pipes.
(fighting the urge to say something else)
Kiersten brought a tote bag, Joe Paw brought a toke bag. To each his own.
And pat brought a bag full of cloroform, GHB, and propofol.
Not that it probably played a part in the decision but it’s so much easier to get out of the new Stadium than the old one.
That the new stadium houses around 7000-9000 fewer people per game has something to do with that.
And it’s empty pretty much everynight! AMIRITE?!
/ESPN’d
I think it’s either wider or appears wider. And there seem to be more exit ramps.
I think it’s either wider or appears wider.
That’s what she said!
Heh.
So, now that we can all bring bags to the stadium, WHEN THE HELL IS THE RAB GAME MEETUP GONNA BE?!?!?!??!
+threeve
Hey, what did I just say about ethnic slurs?
What about vials? Are they allowed?
Vile ethnic slurs are not allowed
I like what the Rays do in allowing people to bring in food (peanuts, popcorn, etc) and closed water bottles/soda. It’s the one good thing about going to that shitty stadium to watch the Yanks games.
That bad things: f’n cowbells, someone trying to spot the Chic-fil-a cow with a camera (the section he’s in gets a free chicken sandwich + the person gets something), the Pepsi/Sierra Mist/Aquafina bottle race, the little kid trying to find the ball under the helmet on the big screen after they’ve switched it all around, the wave, the ymca, the chicken dance section competiton (again, the section that wins gets a free chicken sandwich), the strobe lights that flash from the catwalks, cowbells and the bandwagon fans.
Don’t forget the cowbells.
He didn’t, he said the f’in cowbells.
my joke
——–
your head
No seriously, don’t forget the f*cking cowbells.
Long weekend of work (not supposed to work weekend but I did) + New Dog in the house = worst case of the Mondays EVER.
I swear I wouldn’t be surprised if I called my wife the wrong name when she gets home from work….
I swear I wouldn’t be surprised if I called my wife the wrong name when she gets home from work….
/SteveMcNair’d
(too soon?)
If it’s too soon, then I’m a really bad person for laughing when I read that….
worst case of the Mondays EVER.
you get your ass kicked for talkin like that around here…
It’s utterly absurd the shit they do to TRY (key word) and get people into that stadium. I mean come one, a devil ray petting tank? WTF!
What about the cowbells?
I like what the Rays do in allowing people to bring in food (peanuts, popcorn, etc) and closed water bottles/soda. It’s the one good thing about going to that shitty stadium to watch the Yanks games.
the yankees do this too as I have brought in a sandwich, chips, and other snacks for the past 3 yrs. I dont think they allow any drinks eve if theyre closed and plastic but whatever.
i believe you cna bring drinks, just not alcohol
nice.
The bags at Citi were handy – for fans to wear over their heads
The Yankee Stadium security level’s been dropped to level “Blackwatch Plaid”
The terrorists will really have lost when they stop playing God Bless America at every game.
At least until they replace it with America the Beautiful.
At least until they replace it with
America the BeautifulCenterfield by John Fogerty.Fixed.
i remember when we talked about this. I am all in favor. sign me up. I HATE god bless america. it literally ruins the end of the game for me cause im like, goddammit, the point is to stretch and to enjoy the game and smile. this is the anti-that. i was saying all this in the bleachers on friday and everyone was like yeah! but. what do i know.
\sick and tired of a dead person recording of an outdated song forcing patriotism down my throat a second time in 9 innings’d
I agree. God Bless America is outdated. We should play a new, more patriotic, more American anthem during the 7th inning stretch.
My suggestion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JaPWAls6qs (safe)
Yessssssssssssss… no more sneaking the CamelBak into the stadium?!?!?! think they would allow my 7 free beers to pass through?
jesus…this is a genius idea….why have i never thought of it…it would be undetectable under a hoodie and they dont even frisk you
Well, they don’t frisk you unless they have good reason too.
(looks in pat’s direction)
Joke’s on them, I enjoy the frisking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t792lzGPQ9E (safe)
Police Chief Grady: I’m sorry about that delousing. Just standard procedure.
Farva: It’s powdered sugar.
Police Chief Grady: The lice hate the sugar.
Farva: It’s delicious.
That is correct my friend.. Nothing like wearing a hoodie when its 90 degree out.. tagline: “I heard its supposed to rain”
You should just give the Blackie Weather Forecast if anybody asks.
I believe that’s supposed to be spelled “the Blaccuweather Forecast”.
Play on words on “Accuweather” (which is itself a play on words).
http://tv.comxa.com/wp-content.....eather.jpg (safe)
/helpfulhint’d
Hah, yeah that makes sense. It does sound like Blackie Weather Forecast though.
/some of my best friends’d
Amazing how contented I was just not having to transfer my stuff into a clear bag!
Till this season I traveled to games all over the country and amazed the ticket takers with my narration of the rigmarole at the Stadium entrances.
The (now friendly) Stadium guards still made me remove my cap and turn my phone on yesterday.
The (now friendly) Stadium guards still made me remove my cap and turn my phone on yesterday.
Spread your cheeks and lift your sac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IWkGdiDwM (NSFW-Profanity)