Mar
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And down it goes…
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So sad. For some reason, I can’t help but think of “About Schmidt.”
That might have just given me PTSD…okay, so I’m using hyperbole, but still. Hard to watch.
No, I had the same thought. Then I felt guilty for having it. But…yeah.
I felt bad until they panned over to YSIII.
I was thinking the same thing for a second, then I remembered 2009. For the sake of sane Yankee fans everywhere, I’m so happy they won at the 1st year in the new stadium, or Dan Shaugnessy might write a book called “The Curse of The House that Ruth Built”, and a bunch of irrational Yankee fans would be jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge in anticipation of an 86 year title drought. On the other hand, maybe that’s not so bad.
Either that or Peter Gammons continuing to this season with “The joke that is the new Yankee Stadium.”
Either that or
Peter Gammonsevery analyst freaking out over the first couple of weeks. Yay, SSS!!!! continuing to this season with “The joke that is the new Yankee Stadium.”I’m pretty sure Peter Gammons is still using that. Seriously.
he was writing an article about the young pitchers in the AL East (during ST) and he said something like, “Hughes gave up six home runs in seven starts. Of course, that’s completely understandable in the Bronx launching pad.”
Peter Gammons is a sloppy faced jerk.
Heh, the new talk around Boston (at least in some article I read a while ago) was that they were, in fact, cursed by Teixeira. And all this time I thought WE were the ones cursed by Tex!
Mike, did you kidnap/kill/eat Ben and Joe?
The last 5 posts are all you…
I’m in a groove, don’t mess it up.
That’s it. Next week you’re only getting three
inningsposts.(waves hand)
Nothing to see here, move along. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
You’re putting yourself at risk for the Verducci Effect.
Mike, did you kidnap/kill/eat Ben and Joe?
Mitch: Eat you? What a lovely thought. Hey pass the Phil! This meal was great thanks to Phil.
Phil: Alright don’t eat me!
Duke: Jesus Christ, what a bunch of little piss pots.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-799388
Just brings me to the top of that thread. ActiveX controls at work block random things…which apparently include mid-page links.
LOL. I do cite lame movie quotes a lot more than the usual guy. Nicely done.
You do have an uncanny ability to remember and quote movies that were uniquely awful.
It’s a gift.
what hurts most is those are the seats i sat in most often. wow. i actually just watched that video and found myself reaching out with my hand towards the screen while going oh! like some movie cliche. …
why did this go here? epic epic fail by me.
::extends hand to give tissue to Brendog::
i eat because i’m unhappy, i’m unhappy because i eat!!11!!
I don’t think you were supposed to eat the tissue…
Did Steven Tyler show up and sing you to sleep?
/dontwannamissathing
The King is dead!
Long live the King!
Whoah, crazy.
Does anyone know when the commemorative demolition dust goes on sale?
Those breathing in the dust are going to be tested for steroids to see if the stadium itself was juicing.
By the title of this post I thought it was about Joba’s career as a starting pitcher. Sorry I had to, too easy to pass up
I hope they gave the ghosts some warning before they dropped that section.
The ghosts came over to the new Stadium last summer. Took them a while but they got there.
No, they moved over in 2008. They were too busy with moving into their new home across the street that they forgot to help the Yanks make the playoffs that year.
;_;
Though when I saw the title “and down it goes” and saw that the video linked to CNN, I am not going to say what I thought this post referred to. Needless to say, this video, while upsetting, was actually sort of a relief.
I thought it was going to be a Melky Cabrera/Marey Carey post.
(applause)
“It” is a great way to refer to Mary Carey as well.
I too, expected something bad.
OYS wasn’t a fixture in my life like it was for some people ’round here so it’s easier for me to accept the new stadium. But that video is a stark image of what’s happening to the old place. Damn.
As a YS2 season-ticket holder, let me tell you… I’m frankly embarrassed by how much it bothers me to see videos like this one.
Same. I was actually having a pretty good day at work before I watched that. Now I’m legitimately sad.
I wonder if they’ll find remnants of a Cy Young jersey buried underneath the stadium…
*Tear*
Noun, or verb?
yeah if it’s the verb I don’t want to know what the “tear” was in reference too.
tear? ?[teer]
–noun
1.
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles.
Just be careful. If you stare into the computer screen too long and/or have the air conditioning on high, take amphetamines, etc. it may dry out your eyes to the point where ironically your eyes water…but it’s not the saline, watery fluid you’re talking about…it’s basically just water :/
I won’t be satisfied until we win a championship at the new place. Oh. wait.
I wont be satisfied until we win 26 at the new place
IETCVM
Maybe I’m the only one, but I don’t particularly miss the old stadium. The renovations in the seventies were substantial enough that it was basically a new stadium without much connection to the stadium that Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and the other Yankee greats played in. Once you get past the history (or lack of it), the stadium itself was pretty run down and decrepit.
There was still a lot of history and incredible moments that unfolded from ’76-’08 though. Plus, I’m sure a lot of readers grew up with the Stadium, going to games with their friends and family and learning to love Yankee baseball, all of which contribute to making the demolition hard to swallow.
Two of my posts didn’t go through for this one…weird.
im with you…. fond memories, but i think it was time to move on
/seinfeld’d
HEY…any of you guys in NYC want to saunter over there, reach through the fence and pick up something for me?
STRONG MEN ALSO CRY. STRONG MEN ALSO CRY.
Hard to watch it tumble down that way … that was the Left field upper deck area, right ? If so, that’s where i watched Scott Brosius’ home run sail right down in front of my eyes against Arizona in Game 5 the 2001 World Series. What a great place the old stadium was. The new stadium is great, no doubt. More spacious, lots of food options, a bar inside the stadium (thank you g-d !)etc. but there was something about the old ballpark the new one doesn’t capture. Anyways, the Yankees really did build the best building they possibly could and at least they won their first championship there in Season 1, so the building was opened under the right circumstances.