Originally Posted by mandrake
It's a ridiculous statement not even worth commenting on.
27, and nobody has more..
It's a ridiculous statement not even worth commenting on.
"We're relying on you to take the memories from this stadium, and add them to the new memories we make at the new Yankee Stadium, and continue to pass them on from generation to generation." Derek Jeter: September 21, 2008.
27, and nobody has more..
I thought that might be the building since the window in the top left corner has no glass, and it looks black inside it.
Other than that, it looks untouched!!
"We're relying on you to take the memories from this stadium, and add them to the new memories we make at the new Yankee Stadium, and continue to pass them on from generation to generation." Derek Jeter: September 21, 2008.
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Great 3D conversions, as usual, Lpeters. I really wish people would take the measly two stamps and an envelope and send for the glasses so that they can view these works of yours.
Put it in the books.
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Thanks for the comment. If Baseball Fever fans think I have a connection to the 3D business in the link, that's incorrect. The Internet has plenty of other businesses that sell glasses. I just posted that link because they'll send a free pair.
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It's not ten blocks away. Pony up a games gate receipts for the neighbors, the injured citizens and firefighters, without the taxpayers there is no ballpark there.
Once in a while something happens where you need to do more than put on an NYFD cap, this is that time.
A lot of teams donate gate receipts to help people.
The New York Yankees actually used to have this thing that's so unmentionable now, it might send some running into the night screaming.....
SINGLE ADMISSION DOUBLEHEADERS.
Last edited by WEB; 07-19-2012 at 06:01 PM.
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I don't have a problem with the Yanks donating something, but did you ever hear of insurance? And as much as I loved single admission doubleheaders as a kid, I don't see the connecton here.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,and welcome to Yankee Stadium. Here are the lineups for todays game...
Put it in the books
Here's 975 Walton Avenue, cropped from DN4L's image.
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Gerardo Parra, a lefthand batter, steps in to lead off. Harvey's first pitch on the way, it's a fastball on the inside corner for a called strike, nothing and one, a 93-mile per hour fastball to Gerardo Parra. Parra batting at .281 with 6 homers, 28 runs batted in. - Howie Rose's call of Matt Harvey's very first pitch in the big leagues... Mets at Arizona, July 26, 2012
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A lot of things insurance does not pay or could take a long time, meanwhile those people could be displaced for a long time (perhaps permanently) with nothing left (belongings) but a mailbox in the lobby to say nothing of those injured who serve the community with the FDNY that may need financial help now. That was beyond bad with the heat/humidity as high as it ever goes that hour of the night at this time of year. Six alarms, over thirty firefighters injured.
My point on single admission double-headers connection is one game's gate receipts (teams used to play many single admission double headers) is not that big a deal but in this case would be immediate help.
As for the ballpark connection every news outlet made this a YS story and it was posted here so that's obvious.
It seems a lot of years there are rain outs never made up and a team quietly losses the gate because no tie-breaker comes into play.
Once in a rare while teams even have to make up games in the other teams stadium.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1116683
Daily News reported those people had to be displaced to all Hallows High school, and the Red Cross was helping as always.
Last edited by WEB; 07-20-2012 at 05:25 PM.
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My friend once had his car radio stolen outside of RYS. He should have had the Yankees chip in to replace it.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,and welcome to Yankee Stadium. Here are the lineups for todays game...
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Anyone know how thick the screen is? I mean it can't be as think box its in right?
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
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You really believe that's the same as this or some fire in a construction trailer at Willets Point that was extinguished in five minutes?
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.81203...ronx-1.3846372
About 70 people huddled in All Hallows High School in the Concourse section of the Bronx Wednesday after a vicious six-alarm fire near Yankee Stadium left 30 apartments in the 181 unit building at 975 Walton Ave. uninhabitable.
The massive blaze, which began around midnight and sent 28 firefighters to area hospitals, "left hundreds displaced," said Sam Kille (cq), regional communications director for the Red Cross.
Residents who lived in the north half of the building were informed shortly after noon they could return, said Kille, but roof damage to the south side of the sixth story, where the fire began, and water damage underneath rendered 30 units uninhabitable. People living in another 60 units were left without a place to stay last night as inspectors assessed the safety and habitability of their apartments. "The North Side people were extremely happy when they found out they could return," but the unluckier inhabitants rendered homeless on one of the hottest days of the year expressed fear for the future, said Kille.
The Red Cross, which responds to 3,000 local disasters a year, most of them fires, was Wednesday trying to identify a suitable building nearby to open a shelter.
No one knows yet what caused the blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight and took 200 firefighters almost four hours to extinguish. Two residents were treated at the scene for minor injuries. The firefighters had all been released from area hospitals last night, said an FDNY spokesman.
To be fair the Yankees did donate 250k to the red cross for tornado victims in the past in the south, does not say what year.
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/c...ty.jsp#tornado
Last edited by WEB; 07-21-2012 at 04:12 PM.
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No, it's not the same. The fire is much more serious, and I'm not downplaying it. But it has nothing to do with the NYY. At least my friend was inside RYS, spending his money there, while his car was being vandalized.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,and welcome to Yankee Stadium. Here are the lineups for todays game...
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Ya know, it's funny you mention this, Monument. (Not funny, haha, but funny similar.) When I was a kid, my dad took me to Shea for a ballgame and while we were inside enjoying the game, his -- this'll take you back -- Monte Carlo's trunk was wrenched open and whatever was inside was stolen. Now, he could've raised hell, but I guess there was nothing of real value, so he bit the bullet and had the dents pinged out and the lock replaced. But why, when we pay good money to park in the ballpark's parking lot (today it's $20 for Citi and I believe $35 for NYS), shouldn't we expect a certain amount of security from break-in for that price? I mean, hell, I think parking should be included in the price of the ticket, but that's a bit too radical for some folks, especially since many take the buses and subways to get to the stadiums. But at very least, the money paid to park in the lot should ensure protection from break-in and theft.
I realize both of our tales are probably from the late 1970s-early 1980s, where the parking ticket's fine print stated, "We are not responsible for, but don't the parking tickets we buy today still say the same thing?
Put it in the books.
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Your point raises a fair question (as does Milladrive) but as we know each parking lot can be owned or operated by the team, the city or someone else independent of both, hence the one going bankrupt next to MacCombs Dam Park II. It could come down to what's in the fine print of your parking receipt as to who is responsible so blaming x team may not be correct.
Still with regard to the fire why should All Hallows High School again have to take the hit and open their doors after midnight when there is an air conditioned Hard Rock Cafe, a steakhouse full of food, water and plenty of shelter right across the street? Some of those people were sitting outside all night in that smoke, heat/humidity, the MTA had to bring in air conditioned buses as cooling units.
Picture does not lie.
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http://www.nyredcross.org/?nd=news_r...=559&jid=63321
Red Cross Assists More than 100 in the Wake of Bronx 6-Alarm Fire
The American Red Cross has closed its reception center at All Hallows High School in the Bronx where hundreds of Walton Avenue residents took refuge yesterday after a six-alarm fire in their six-story building, on a brutally hot day. At the reception center, the families found air conditioning, cold water, food and emotional support as they awaited word on whether they would be permitted to return to their homes.
http://www.bxtimes.com/stories/2012/..._07_19_bx.html
Parents, kids and pets hustled out of the building as firefighters rushed in, with the American Red Cross arriving shortly on scene to help relocate residents.
Red Cross crews set up a temporary reception area at All Hallows High School, giving residents shelter, meals and emotional support.
That stadium is owned by New York City.
http://taxfoundation.org/article/new...ld-new-stadium
Last edited by WEB; 07-22-2012 at 02:08 PM.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/l...9XbvPAfV76uvXM
City Councilman Larry Seabrook’s lengthy political career came to a crashing end yesterday as jurors convicted him on nine counts at his corruption retrial.
The disgraced Bronx Democrat was found guilty of steering about $2 million in taxpayer money to shady nonprofits he used to employ his then-mistress, family members and friends.
But in a stunning move, the Manhattan federal jury acquitted Seabrook on three counts of scamming nearly $50,000 in “illegal thank-you payments” from a boiler-company owner he helped score a $300,000 contract for the new Yankee Stadium.
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FYI, "aqcuitted" means "not guilty". Just sayin'
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The building in question is actually to the far right of your picture
Last edited by GordonGecko; 07-30-2012 at 07:43 AM.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...icle-1.1125302
ESPN critiques of new Yankee Stadium keeps building on broadcasts
Denizens of high-priced ballpark has changed the complexion of facing the Bronx Bombers.
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I just came to this thread to see the reaction to this NYDN article (I'm a Met fan and I'm not trolling). I've gone to three Mets games since they opened Citi Field. I find it funny that this is not a bigger story. Of course it's quieter, Donald Trump is at the game, not some ten year old kid praying for a hit. From the Mets perspective it's either Donald Trump when they're winning or an empty seat when their losing.
With these prices and this economy I want to know on what planet these people are from who question why attendance is down or the stadium is like a chess tournament.
A fish stinks from the head down. Sell the Mets.
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Not sure what to make of the article, but quite frankly, Bob Raismann has lost all credibility since his SNY ties, and his reporting is blatantly slanted. Would he had written this article had Francona (who's made nice with the Sox) said it about Citi Field, which in my experience as a partial season ticket holder, is a heck of a lot quieter than Yankee Stadium? Highly doubtful. And to be fair, the Yanks were playing a hopeless Sox team that was 10 games out, so what was there to get excited about for their fans?
Last edited by 7instretch; 07-31-2012 at 02:42 PM.
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What's not fair about reporting O'Neil could not get in the clubhouse when it's well documented Dusty Baker only managed the Reds and had problems getting in the ballpark?
Raissman had nothing to do with that story.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseb...ium/55067342/1
Last edited by WEB; 07-31-2012 at 05:07 PM.
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The article goes well beyond that one little piece of information about O'Neill. And Raissman had everything to do with that story, including surmising what Francona's "thoughts" were. Do you truly think Raissman would write a similar piece about Citi Field, how quiet it is and how they're pricing out fans as well? And I'm a partial Mets season ticket holder saying this.
It's no secret that Raismann has lost all credibility and is pretty much considered a hack and a shill.
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http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009...net-new-york/2
Seems critical enough about both sides here.
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Let me preface this by saying that I'm not necessarily disagreeing with what was written, rather who wrote the article, though like I said, to be fair, it was merely a game between the Yanks and a team that was 10 games out at the time, so of course it was pretty quiet. Seems the rivalry has run its course even in Boston, where Fenway was a morgue when the Yanks were up there.
That said, your above linked article was relatively tame on Raissman's part and he was really stating the obvious and addressing the loud complaints at that time (some of which have been fixed). It was written in 2009 and I know that Raissman started getting paid for SNY appearances sometime during that year. Since then, has been called out for his conflict of interest by a number of columnists, radio hosts, reader and callers. As we know, he's also has vendetta for Dolan that sometimes goes beyond vicious, and to a lesser extent, the Steinbrenner's, deservedly so or not. But, have you noticed how mum Raissman is regarding the equally slimy (if not more so) Wilpons, including the whole Madoff incident? Curious, to say the least.
Here's an article from former NY Time writer, Murray Chass' blog. Note that Bob didn't respond to Chass' email, something that Raismann would have gotten all over somebody else if the tables were turned:
http://www.murraychass.com/?p=674CONFLICT OF INTEREST
After watching a Mets game on SNY, the Mets’ network, the other day, I kept the television on, and soon the daily program, “Daily News Live,” came on. One of the show’s panelists was Bob Raissman, the Daily News’ media critic.
Now it isn’t unusual for a Daily News reporter or columnist to be on a Daily News television show, but Raissman, as part of his job, is supposed to assess and critique SNY television shows. How does he do that when he appears on one of its shows?
In addition, I was initially told that SNY paid Raissman $200 a show. A Daily News executive corrected that report, saying the newspaper pays its employees who appear on the show. I sent Raissman an e-mail asking about what seemed to be to be a clear conflict of interest.
“While you obviously work for the Daily News,” I wrote, “your appearance nevertheless appears to raise a journalistically questionable issue: how does someone whose job it is to critique television sports shows appear on one of those shows? Is that not a conflict of interest?”
Raissman did not reply
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Fair enough, do not want to venture too far off topic.
There is other news related to the taxpayers Stadium.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...NA239820120731
TEXT-S&P raises Yankee Stadium Holdings loan rating to 'BBB'
Rating Action
On July 31, 2012, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its long-term
rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB-' on Yankee Stadium LLC (StadCo) owner Yankee
Stadium Holdings LLC's (Holdings) $46.4 million bank loan. At the same time,
we raised our long-term rating and, where applicable, our underlying rating
(SPUR) to 'BBB' from 'BBB-' on the New York City Industrial Development
Agency's (NYCIDA) $942.6 million series 2006 payments-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT)
bonds, $259.0 million series 2009A PILOT bonds, $25.0 million rental bonds
series 2006, and $111.9 million series 2009 rental bonds issued for StadCo. We
revised the outlook on the ratings to stable from positive.
Last edited by WEB; 08-01-2012 at 07:35 AM.
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