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New Yankee Stadium Opener today at 1PM EST

Wow - it was 1-1 and I went to read some notes, look up and it's 10-1! Hahaha... stupid Yankees. We drilled the Tribe for 2 games last week and now your massive payroll can't even keep it close! :|

/Jays fan
 
I heard that there are a significant amount of seats where you can't see home plate/third base?

If so, that's hilarious.
 
Damaso Marte was terrible last year for the Yankees. Why they decided to bring him back I will never know. He and Veras have huge problems performing under pressure. Give them a 5 run cushion and they're (usually) fine, but any less than that and they will throw the game away for you. Makes me angry that they used Bruney last night. He's been really good. Also, they should recall Melancon and/or Tomko. Coke, Veras, and Marte are not reliable enough to throw more than two innings combined when there's less than a 5 run lead.

The Yanks need to figure this shit out, because this is only their tenth game of the season and the bullpen has already thrown away three. That's not a good percentage.
 
Originally posted by: chalmers
I heard that there are a significant amount of seats where you can't see home plate/third base?

If so, that's hilarious.
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some seats in the bleachers have cut off views due to a terrible design/location of the mohegan sun bar
 
Originally posted by: chalmers
I heard that there are a significant amount of seats where you can't see home plate/third base?

If so, that's hilarious.
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You're thinking of the Mets' new park.
 
Originally posted by: speg
Wow - it was 1-1 and I went to read some notes, look up and it's 10-1! Hahaha... stupid Yankees. We drilled the Tribe for 2 games last week and now your massive payroll can't even keep it close! :|

/Jays fan
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further proof salary doesn't equal performance.
 
I haven't been to Yankee stadium post 9/11. For those that attend, did they institute a policy where you couldn't get out of your seat during the 7th inning stretch when 'God Bless America' is being sung or you'll be ejected from the stadium?

This article was posted in P&N - http://www.newsday.com/sports/...5apr15,0,5093473.story

I'm going to go with the NYPD statement that he was ejected for drunkenness and cursing. I mean what happens if you're not in your seat? What about the National Anthem when most people are just arriving to the park and trying to get to their seats or get food, etc....

I don't the folks in P&N go to sporting events and realize that people are up and walking around during the whole game, even during the National Anthem and 'God Bless America'.
 
Now yesterday's game was pretty sweet. :thumbsup:

:heart: Derek Jeter

Yankees 6, Indians 5
Yankees Cover Up Their Blemishes With Five Solo Home Runs


Published: April 17, 2009

It was the kind of swing Derek Jeter took so many times at the original Yankee Stadium, waiting just long enough to muscle a fastball to deep right field, then flinging his bat to the grass and bolting down the line.

The best of those drives carried into the right-field seats, a friendly porch for a left-handed hitter or an opposite-field specialist like Jeter. The Yankees kept the dimensions the same at their new park, where the ball seems to carry just as well.

Jeter?s two-out home run to right broke a tie in the eighth inning Friday and carried the Yankees past the Cleveland Indians, 6-5, for their first victory at the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees went hitless with runners in scoring position and their starting pitcher faltered. But with stellar relief, five solo homers and one costly Cleveland error, the Yankees were winners.

?I love it,? said Mark Teixeira, who followed a homer by Johnny Damon with one of his own in the third. ?If anyone?s going to hit a game-winning home run for the first win at the new stadium, it?s going to be Derek.?

Teixeira?s homer scraped a fence along the side of the second deck in right field, a missile that would have left any stadium. Still, he said, right field can tease hitters into mistakes, a lesson he learned on a critical play in the seventh.

Facing Vinnie Chulk with no outs, Damon on first and the Indians leading by a run, Teixeira saw a changeup tailing away. Instead of serving the pitch to left or taking it, Teixeira tried to pull it, bouncing a weak squibber off the end of his bat.

Chulk fielded it, squared his feet ? and threw the ball away. Damon chugged home as the ball skipped past first base, and the game was tied, 5-5. That allowed Yankees Manager Joe Girardi to call for his hottest pitcher, Brian Bruney.

Bruney said he had gotten away with some pitches lately, fastballs down the middle or hanging breaking balls. But after another scoreless inning Friday, these are the results of his last six appearances: 17 batters retired in a row, 12 with strikeouts.

?He?s been extremely good,? Girardi said. ?He was extremely good last year. We just continue to put him in tough situations and he continues to do the job. That?s what you expect of a guy who has the type of stuff Bruney has.?

Bruney earned his second victory in three days because Jeter connected off Jensen Lewis in the eighth. Jeter was hitless in his first four at-bats, striking out on a wicked slider from Joe Smith with a runner on second to end the sixth.

But he delivered in the eighth, after Lewis struck out the first two hitters but fell behind in the count, 3-1. When Jeter crossed the plate, he met Teixeira, who said he told him simply, ?You?re a great player.? The fans agreed, calling Jeter from the dugout for a familiar curtain call.

?It?s the same dimensions, same field,? Jeter said. ?It?s a little different in the stands, but it felt about the same.?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04...aseball/18yankees.html
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Now yesterday's game was pretty sweet. :thumbsup:

:heart: Derek Jeter

Yankees 6, Indians 5
Yankees Cover Up Their Blemishes With Five Solo Home Runs


Published: April 17, 2009

It was the kind of swing Derek Jeter took so many times at the original Yankee Stadium, waiting just long enough to muscle a fastball to deep right field, then flinging his bat to the grass and bolting down the line.

The best of those drives carried into the right-field seats, a friendly porch for a left-handed hitter or an opposite-field specialist like Jeter. The Yankees kept the dimensions the same at their new park, where the ball seems to carry just as well.

Jeter?s two-out home run to right broke a tie in the eighth inning Friday and carried the Yankees past the Cleveland Indians, 6-5, for their first victory at the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees went hitless with runners in scoring position and their starting pitcher faltered. But with stellar relief, five solo homers and one costly Cleveland error, the Yankees were winners.

?I love it,? said Mark Teixeira, who followed a homer by Johnny Damon with one of his own in the third. ?If anyone?s going to hit a game-winning home run for the first win at the new stadium, it?s going to be Derek.?

Teixeira?s homer scraped a fence along the side of the second deck in right field, a missile that would have left any stadium. Still, he said, right field can tease hitters into mistakes, a lesson he learned on a critical play in the seventh.

Facing Vinnie Chulk with no outs, Damon on first and the Indians leading by a run, Teixeira saw a changeup tailing away. Instead of serving the pitch to left or taking it, Teixeira tried to pull it, bouncing a weak squibber off the end of his bat.

Chulk fielded it, squared his feet ? and threw the ball away. Damon chugged home as the ball skipped past first base, and the game was tied, 5-5. That allowed Yankees Manager Joe Girardi to call for his hottest pitcher, Brian Bruney.

Bruney said he had gotten away with some pitches lately, fastballs down the middle or hanging breaking balls. But after another scoreless inning Friday, these are the results of his last six appearances: 17 batters retired in a row, 12 with strikeouts.

?He?s been extremely good,? Girardi said. ?He was extremely good last year. We just continue to put him in tough situations and he continues to do the job. That?s what you expect of a guy who has the type of stuff Bruney has.?

Bruney earned his second victory in three days because Jeter connected off Jensen Lewis in the eighth. Jeter was hitless in his first four at-bats, striking out on a wicked slider from Joe Smith with a runner on second to end the sixth.

But he delivered in the eighth, after Lewis struck out the first two hitters but fell behind in the count, 3-1. When Jeter crossed the plate, he met Teixeira, who said he told him simply, ?You?re a great player.? The fans agreed, calling Jeter from the dugout for a familiar curtain call.

?It?s the same dimensions, same field,? Jeter said. ?It?s a little different in the stands, but it felt about the same.?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04...aseball/18yankees.html
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I was at the game, and it was amazing. Perfect weather too.

With regards to crowd noise, I think that'll settle down when people aren't walking the entirety of the park (on multiple levels) to check out the concession stands. Since you can see the field from the concourse people aren't as motivated to get back to their seats.
 
Watched the games on TV. What I find hilarious is that the expensive seats down by the field cleared out pretty quickly on opening day - so the bulk of the TV time has miles of empty seats. Same thing on Friday's game - most of the place is packed but every time they show the batter or anything like that, you get a few stray people and lots of empty seats.

The advice from my friends is to buy the cheapest ticket possible and spend the game in the concourse.
 
Originally posted by: Legendary
I was at the game, and it was amazing. Perfect weather too.

With regards to crowd noise, I think that'll settle down when people aren't walking the entirety of the park (on multiple levels) to check out the concession stands. Since you can see the field from the concourse people aren't as motivated to get back to their seats.
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So, are you forced to stay in your seats during the 7th inning stretch when 'God Bless America' is being sung?

 
You have to give Chien-Ming Wang a lot of credit. Entering the game today he had an ERA of more than 28 yet somehow he had the skill to get it to go UP.
 
Bwuahahah!!!!!

Wang did improve though. He only went 1 inning while giving up 8 earned runs last start. Today, he went 1 1/3 innings while giving up 8 earned runs.

And they only lost 22-4 today. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Pricey seats at new Yankee Stadium a Bronx bomb
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ROFLMAO. Yeah, there's a nice objective source, Boston.com


It was a cold rainy Wednesday afternoon game against the A's and the Stadium didn't sell out? My god, what a shock!!! Of course the expensive seats are not necessarily going to sell out every game this year, the economy is bad. So what exactly did you expect the Yankees to do, build a special stadium with all bleacher seats for this year, then tear it down and put up a brand new different stadium with more expensive seats next year when things improve? Nobody is selling out their expensive seats right now unless they play in tiny shitholes like Fenway that you can sell out to a single clown car.

Boston fans, what a bunch of jealous, inferiority-riddled crybabies. In 2010 or 2011 when those seats are sold out every game Boston.com will be crying that the money gives the Bombers too big an advantage and will expect the Sux to get revenue sharing on them.
 
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