I'm a Braves fan and I think it's funny. I doubt he's going to "get his ass sued". It's not damaging to structural integrity and there's no curse.
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Sorry. I was trying to respond to an earlier post but didn't hit quote. What I was trying to do was rebuff someone that made a big deal about a t-shirt in a concrete pour, like it was going to screw up the structure or something.
Precisely. While the late '70s refit of Yankee Stadium was horrid, it proved that it CAN be done. Fenway is another good example. This is all about money and jealousy. That's it.
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If someone told Diamondbacks management that there was a Rockies jersey (or for that matter any other jersey) buried in the concrete at Chase Field, they'd get laughed at and told "Oh well". And it would be forgotten about ten minutes later. Leave it to the Yankees to make much ado over nothing.
How so?
Hard to put a precise finger on it. It's like they didn't even try to blend the modern elements with the historic. To me it came out as an eyesore. For instance, that bright blue outfield wall just didn't look right.
Speaking as a Yankee fan, I got a chuckle out of the Jersey in the stadium thing & thought it a little odd that they went through the trouble to actually dig it out.
Besides, the Yankees don't need a curse. We have one already, his name is George Steinbrenner.
Besides, the Yankees don't need a curse. We have one already, his name is George Steinbrenner.
I bet a lot of people were upset that they could no longer stand on the IRT platform and see directly into the stadium.
Now Shea REALLY has to go. It KILLED a man yesterday. Likely a stupid, drunken man, but still...
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3349003
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3349003
^Damn, that story is awful. At least the team is willing to look into why it happened though, even if it looks like an accident
One policeman said they were investigating the possibility that he might have been sliding down the escalator handrail. Just a rumor, but if he did...what a freaking moron. Until that appears to be the case, I'll assume it was just a terrible accident. Poor kids and his pregant wife. Really awful for them.
Because it's only existence is to line Steinbrenner pockets. There's a negligible difference in the seating capacity. The shopping areas that are going in could easily have gone in without the creation of a new stadium (I pass the site daily on my commute to work), and this is just a nauseating dismissal of history for the almighty dollar.
I'm a difficult person to offend, and The Abomination offends me on every level possible.
Hmmm. Well, to each his/her own, I suppose. I guess I'm not as emotionally invested, since I've only recently gotten heavily into baseball, and I'm not a "real" New Yorker. I can only speak to what I know, though, and I think the new ballpark will be awesome.
(note that I refuse to call the new Yankees ballpark a "stadium", even though that's still it's official name. I had forgotten that Yankee Stadium is also a cookie cutter. That alone is a mighty impetus to replace it. God, if I ever invent time travel, I will find whoever invented the concept of a 'multi-purpose' stadium, and beat them senseless with a trout.
)I have been paying attention, though, and I don't think *all* the reasons for replacing Yankee Stadium are strictly commercial; like I said, there's only so much renovation you can do on a stadium. Beyond that, it's simply not going to work.
Well, what about Fenway, you might say. And to that, I repeat something else I just said: The Sox have no competition in the immediate area. If the Mets weren't getting a new ballpark, the original Yankee Stadium might be around for a little while longer. But competition demands that what one team does, the other must. So the existence of Citi Field (another ballpark I can't wait to see) drives the decision for a new Yankee ballpark.
Oy.
Having also been to Shea many times, I know what the escalators there are like. Sliding down them is about 100 kinds of dangerous.
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TEHO. The only way I would ever set foot in the Abomination is if someone in the Yankees management actually exhibited a brain stem, but as that's about as likely to happen as the Pope converting to paganism, the odds of my ever setting foot in the Abomination are somewhere in the negative numbers.
Callous disregard for history, especially so the already-rich can make more money because of it, just disgusts me.
Callous disregard for history, especially so the already-rich can make more money because of it, just disgusts me.
If the players didn't want a new stadium, I'd be more inclined to agree. But they do. History is just that: history.
AFAIK, the Red Sox (not just the owners, but the team itself) wanted a new Fenway, but there was an outcry and it was defeated. Fair enough. Like I keep saying, they don't have another team just a few miles away to compete with.
Not only that, it's Baseball history. It's not like they signed the Declaration of Independence in there. I'm a Cub fan, and I love Wrigley, but they really need to tear down the grandstand and rebuild it using a more modern design for the interior.
Of course, I'd sell Wrigley down the river if they could win the World Series in trade, but there you go.
The previous owners, not the present ones, which seem a bit more in touch with the fanbase.
Damn that Enrico Pallazzo.
I'm a Cub fan, and I love Wrigley, but they really need to tear down the grandstand and rebuild it using a more modern design for the interior.
Of course, I'd sell Wrigley down the river if they could win the World Series in trade, but there you go.
Do you think they could get away with replacing Wrigley Field if the Cubs win that? I wish I remembered who said this, but *somebody* pointed that out. If the Cubs win the series, just let the fans loose inside the place. By the time they've finished carting off souvenirs, the whole place will be gone.
What about the Toronto Blue Jays? They play at Rogers Centre/SkyDome, which sure seems like a cookie cutter to me (football and a lot of other non-baseball stuff plays there, plus the place just LOOKS like an ugly cookie cutter).
And unfortunately, unlike those other three teams, the Blue Jays don't seem to be getting a new ballpark (I can't find any plans for one anywhere on the net), so they're stuck in that ugly piece of shit for the time being.
