Yankee Stadium: the Final Series
We’re going to be subjected to a lot this weekend. There will be tributes and remembrances, tears and applause. All along the line the good people who get paid to explain such things will tell us how much respect we should have, and how great the whole affair is.
That’s their job, yes. Some of them are quite good at it. Don’t get caught up.
Think instead of how sad it is that the same field that Ruth and Gehrig and Mantle once called home was turned into the personal playground of one of America’s most sinister sportsmen, and finally his corpulent son. Think instead of just how right it is that the Yankees of the next hundred years won’t be able to mingle with the ghosts of their past.
I say bring on the wrecking ball. Guys like Jeter and Rodriguez and Mussina never deserved that field anyway. So, yes, tear it down. These Yankees have earned those new digs and nothing less. Earned the right to be finally and forever separate from a once proud and sacred place.
All we need now is for the Orioles to win. Tonight, tomorrow, but mostly Sunday.
Nobody likes the Yankees less than I do, but…if the shoe were on the other foot, I’d want Yankees fans to tip their caps to Camden Yards and the Orioles, so I will. I don’t like any of those guys (except Posada), but most of them deserved to be in that stadium. Hey, you don’t go to the playoffs 13 years in a row without being worthy of the classic Yankees.
Now then. Fuck New York.
Tonight, and the rest of the series, we will win if the pitching holds. The Yankees pitchers (Pavano, Aceves, and Pettitte) haven’t been doing very well lately – except Aceves who only has the one start (or maybe two)…so the hitting will be there all weekend. If we win one we won’t have a losing season against New York for the second season in a row. Win two and we have a winning season against the Yankees. That’d be nice.
So far so far with Liz. Print them t-shirts. Fuck New York.
It’s not the play on the field so much as it is the culture and the men behind that culture. Sure, there have been some fine Yankees in the past twenty years and I’m the first to admit it. But a fine organization? Not for a long, long time.
But yeah, you’re right. I’ll tip my cap to them to the extent that it’s warranted. There is a lot to celebrate, and I don’t mean to denigrate that.
i don’t know – maybe i’m just old but yankee stadium has some serious baseball weight. i mean, c’mon people.
babe played up in this motherfucker.
anyways, the ravens are more and more intriguing every day. i’m legitimately excited about his season all of a sudden.
and the steelers are looking as vaguely weak as usual. what’s with that? am i the only one that notices that shit?
the steelers are the most over-rated team of the last ten years for sure.
i hate the fact that their so-called “super bowl” team will never face the reality of our defense and lose 19-3.
such is the way of football i guess.
Babe Ruth never played in the current Yankee Stadium and we all know it. But the point remains.
I’m excited to see what happens tomorrow with the Ravens, but I’m not exactly holding my breath on a successful season just yet. Losing the bye week really hurts, especially with the schedule we’ve got going. That said, who the heck isn’t excited about Flacco?
I was excited to read that MacPhail’s top priorities this offseason are extending Markakis and Roberts. Even now, Roberts has just set a record with 51 doubles by a switch hitter to lead off the penultimate game (and then get doubled off second….and I really, really can’t stand the Yankee announcers up here – Ken Singleton, you Lando!)
We really don’t have much chance of winning today with Burres on the mound. Tomorrow’s gotta be our night, I guess.
i love when you read a post you made at 3:24 in the morning and think “that guy has some valid points” only to realize it was you.
also neal is a hard fish to bait.
I can guarantee that, for whatever reason Trembley has in putting in jamie walker with 1 out and giambi up in the ninth, he will be punished with a walkoff three run homerun, probably on like the first or second pitch.
What a waste…
…words can’t describe how pissed I am right now.
JAMIE FUCKIN’ WALKER
Poor Brian Burres, dude finally has everything clicking and NO RUNS to back him up.
Dear, God, Moses, Allah, Vishnu, Joseph Smith, L. Ron Hubbard, and Jesus Christ,
Let the Orioles win tomorrow.
Good old anti-Yankee TLC propaganda. LOVE IT.
I wish they would bring the wrecking ball, but aren’t they leaving the thing up as a museum? Isn’t that the ultimate in New York excess? Let’s have THREE baseball stadiums in the city, and we won’t even use one.
How about Burres? Man… is there a way we can pitch this guy on like 10 days rest next year?
A win today would be… well it would make me smile, is all.
From ESPN’s running Bronx Blog, for the last Yankee Stadium game:
6:45 p.m. ET: I was surprised at how little celebrity firepower there is here tonight. Spotted on the crowded field before the game were Richard Gere and Val Kilmer, who looked to be exchanging numbers with Kevin Millar. I briefly saw former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani outside the Yankees clubhouse — and that was pretty much it.
uh…oh, I smell networking for after baseball. God help us.
I am so embarrassed to watch the Os on ESPN, watching them on MASN you pretend that no one outside of the Mid-Atlantic is watching, but this brings the ugliness out.
If it seriously weren’t for the Andy Mac plan…I don’t know I’d still be an active Oriole fan.
I know exactly what you mean. This is really embarrassing on a couple different levels. We’re getting beaten up, we’re throwing nobodies out there, we’re going 1-2-3 on single digit pitches, and I’m not even sure that ESPN is aware of who exactly the Yankees are playing tonight.
God, Septembers just test every ounce of baseball loyalty I’ve got. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really believe that you should give up on your team forever nor that the Orioles are going to stay down forever…but dammit, man.
On the bright side, I am extremely psyched about the Ravens. Who isn’t?
Please stop the baseball season already!
I hate football and I’m excited about the Ravens/Pittsburgh sucking.
Let’s GO, FLAC-CO!
I’m still kind of at a loss for words. That sucked in a big way.
thought you guys might like this:
http://i33.tinypic.com/2ajz68n.jpg
You’re right, I do like that.
The O’s are officially the team that has lost the most games at Yankee Stadium. Here’s to a new era, hopefully. I’m ready for the end of the Lost Season…