Yankee Stadium [II]

[Blue387]

ESPN critiques of new Yankee Stadium keeps building on broadcasts:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...icle-1.1125302

[Coach Bombay]

and yet the Yankees still won the WS in their first season in the new park.

[quagmire]

and yet the Yankees still won the WS in their first season in the new park.

It was a parting gift from the old stadium in its death throes.

[DN4L]

Hard to believe that it's been 33 years since Thurman's passing..
Happy 33rd Anniversary in Heaven, Captain Munson..

[brooklyndodger14]

Hard to believe that it's been 33 years since Thurman's passing..
Happy 33rd Anniversary in Heaven, Captain Munson..

Equally hard to grasp is the idea that the time elapsed since that tragic day has exceeded the span of his entire lifetime (32 years and 55 days).

Dennis
BrooklynDodger14

[Petemc1969]

Here's a rare shot of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field in the same frame (courtesy of 'the schneider clan' on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/schneid...n/photostream/

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[Jim Vaz]

ESPN critiques of new Yankee Stadium keeps building on broadcasts:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...icle-1.1125302

Well in defense of the new ball park, its not just at new Yankee Stadium, but many of the newer venues around the country have the same issue. Behind the plate and down the first base and third base sides is cooperate land. Loud boisterous fans simply don't occpuy those seats ever. Maybe in Philadelphia and other cities but in not in NY. Those fans as we already know were priced out decades ago.

And its also not hard to figure out why the noise levels are lower, simply by looking at the stadiums design. The old place was a cathedral like setting, the first base and 3rd base side upperdecks jutted out toward the field, while with the new one it gently glides along the lines and upper deck fans are pushed back well past the field boxes. This also means the noise doesn't gather like it did 'under' the upper decks of old YS. Also don't look past the fact that new YS is built for the fat butts of 2009 and not 1976, seats are farther apart, rows are wider, so sound doesn't carry as well in unison, these are all factors you have to consider. Also in old YS bleacher fans in right field were closer to the field, this loud and intimidating crowd has been pushed weln back from their old area in the new stadium.

This is not slight, just honest observation. As a Mets fan I found old YS to be one of the most exciting and intruiging venues to visit of all I have ever been to. From the loud crowd to the tight confines, to me it was by far the best park in the baseball hands down. From the greener than usual grass to the train rumbling by in right field the place was a gem. Towards the end it got old, to the suits it no longer represented the Yankee brand as they felt it should, and now you have the mall park of today that is new YS. I like the place very much. I think its an absolutely beautiful park to watch a game. But it will never be the place across the street, ever.

[The Monument]

Fair assesment, Jim Vaz. It's not a bad place to watch a game. And it never could be the place across the street. My problem with it is the failure to recreate OYS with a little RYS thrown in, to at least make you feel like it is the old place. To many fans that were never in OYS, this doesn't seem to matter.

[The Monument]

petemc1969 I took similar photos 12-15 yrs ago from the roof of a building on Cabrini Blvd showing RYS.Not sure if I got Shea in the background. Also got a couple of nice zoom shots of the ESB and WTC.

[Yankeefan3783]

Well in defense of the new ball park, its not just at new Yankee Stadium, but many of the newer venues around the country have the same issue. Behind the plate and down the first base and third base sides is cooperate land. Loud boisterous fans simply don't occpuy those seats ever. Maybe in Philadelphia and other cities but in not in NY. Those fans as we already know were priced out decades ago.

And its also not hard to figure out why the noise levels are lower, simply by looking at the stadiums design. The old place was a cathedral like setting, the first base and 3rd base side upperdecks jutted out toward the field, while with the new one it gently glides along the lines and upper deck fans are pushed back well past the field boxes. This also means the noise doesn't gather like it did 'under' the upper decks of old YS. Also don't look past the fact that new YS is built for the fat butts of 2009 and not 1976, seats are farther apart, rows are wider, so sound doesn't carry as well in unison, these are all factors you have to consider. Also in old YS bleacher fans in right field were closer to the field, this loud and intimidating crowd has been pushed weln back from their old area in the new stadium.

This is not slight, just honest observation. As a Mets fan I found old YS to be one of the most exciting and intruiging venues to visit of all I have ever been to. From the loud crowd to the tight confines, to me it was by far the best park in the baseball hands down. From the greener than usual grass to the train rumbling by in right field the place was a gem. Towards the end it got old, to the suits it no longer represented the Yankee brand as they felt it should, and now you have the mall park of today that is new YS. I like the place very much. I think its an absolutely beautiful park to watch a game. But it will never be the place across the street, ever.

I agree, well said. I enjoyed RYS, and I enjoy NYS. I think both stadiums were/are great places to watch a ball game, but for different reasons. NYS will never be OYS, but it doesn't have to be. It's still a great stadium, with a great baseball club playing in it. As long as the Yankees win, the stadium will have it's own mystique and tradition.

[Petemc1969]

petemc1969 I took similar photos 12-15 yrs ago from the roof of a building on Cabrini Blvd showing RYS.Not sure if I got Shea in the background. Also got a couple of nice zoom shots of the ESB and WTC.

Nice! Any way to post those pics?

[Jim Vaz]

I agree, well said. I enjoyed RYS, and I enjoy NYS. I think both stadiums were/are great places to watch a ball game, but for different reasons. NYS will never be OYS, but it doesn't have to be. It's still a great stadium, with a great baseball club playing in it. As long as the Yankees win, the stadium will have it's own mystique and tradition.

Yea I never meant it as a knock on the new place. NYS is an outstanding stadium and IMO the most grandiose of all ballparks in the major leagues. And like anything we all like to romanticize on the past while forgetting that even old YS was becoming more and more a grimy old park and had its downsides to it. I just harken back to my youth when I remember it being truly the most magnificent stadium in all baseball. I had been to the new places like Camden Yards and such and I still never felt the adrenaline rush that I would get when going to the old stadium.

[Yankees73]

ESPN critiques of new Yankee Stadium keeps building on broadcasts:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...icle-1.1125302

And the fact that the place is a bandbox doesn't help either...

[Yankeefan3783]

Anyone attend the Real Madrid vs AC Milan game? Seemed to have an exciting atmosphere.

[Met addict]

I had the Lobel's steak sandwich for the first time last night. Holy cow, literally. What an amazing sandwich, by far the best thing I've ever eaten at a ball park. The meat was so tender and the portion was generous for the $15 price tag. The only thing that pissed me off was the lack of space available to eat at the stadium. Workers are constantly telling you to move and that the railings around the concourses are restricted areas during BP. I didn't exactly want to hear it with au jus streaming down my wrists as I was stuffing the sandwich down my gullet.

[GordonGecko]

I had the Lobel's steak sandwich for the first time last night. Holy cow, literally. What an amazing sandwich, by far the best thing I've ever eaten at a ball park. The meat was so tender and the portion was generous for the $15 price tag. The only thing that pissed me off was the lack of space available to eat at the stadium. Workers are constantly telling you to move and that the railings around the concourses are restricted areas during BP. I didn't exactly want to hear it with au jus streaming down my wrists as I was stuffing the sandwich down my gullet.

Never hurts to fire off a complaint by text, you always get a response

Guests can use their cellphones to confidentially text security and guest relations questions and concerns to Yankee Stadium Team Members (please see "Yankee Stadium Team Members") at 69900 (message and data rates may apply), and a Team Member will respond accordingly.

[quagmire]

I had the Lobel's steak sandwich for the first time last night. Holy cow, literally. What an amazing sandwich, by far the best thing I've ever eaten at a ball park. The meat was so tender and the portion was generous for the $15 price tag. The only thing that pissed me off was the lack of space available to eat at the stadium. Workers are constantly telling you to move and that the railings around the concourses are restricted areas during BP. I didn't exactly want to hear it with au jus streaming down my wrists as I was stuffing the sandwich down my gullet.

Yep, Lobel's is the best ballpark food ever. While $15 is expensive for ballpark food, it is a decent medium to high end restaurant quality food.

[Gary Dunaier]

Exclusive: MLB to test two different advanced replay systems during games next week

Major League Baseball owners have agreed to test two different advanced replay systems live during games starting next week, and if they prove accurate they could precede an overhaul of the system for the 2013 season, sources told Yahoo! Sports.

MLB will analyze a radar-based system and a camera-based system, both similar to the one used in tennis for down-the-line fair-or-foul calls. Yankee Stadium and Citi Field will be the guinea-pig parks for the systems, which have been installed recently.

The use of the systems will be strictly in the background and for analysis. Because the number of questionable plays during games is likely to be limited, MLB plans to do extra testing on non-game days. Before implementing the technology in its 30 ballparks, the league wants to ensure its accuracy is up to standard.

The rest of the article can be found here.

(I've posted this in the Current Events and Citi Field threads as well. Please keep comments in this thread to thoughts about the issue as it relates to Yankee Stadium (II), and save general thoughts about the issue for the "Current Events" thread.)

[SultanOfWhat]

This altered view of the main gate will appeal to one BBF member who always tends to emphasize the business side of baseball:

[SultanOfWhat]

Apparent Beef Between Food Cart Vendors Leads To Wild Shootout Near Yankee Stadium

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/...ankee-stadium/

[27&COUNTING]

This is my first post on this website so I'll start with Yankee Stadium. Overall I think it is a great park, but for $1.6 billion it could have been better. I think what bothers me most is the outfield area- seating, concourse, Mohegan Sun Bar, Monument park, etc. When walking the field level concourse and you approach the outfield seating it gets kind of weird. You enter through a corridor that feels like a basement or bowels of the stadium and have to walk up stairs to reach the bleachers. Access to the seating below the bleachers is through narrow portals. I think it would have been better if somehow they could have designed an open 360 walk around like Citi, CBP, or Nationals Park. I think the layout of U.S.Cellular Field's bleachers is a good example of what could have been done (wider concourse and scoreboard/ads moved further back). The Mohegan Sports Bar is an abortion and Monument Park is basically a third bullpen. When the netting is up it has the feel of an artillery emplacement. Take a look at Heritage Park in Progressive Field, a much better location for an area to honor your organization's legends.

[SultanOfWhat]

Monument Park is basically a third bullpen. When the netting is up it has the feel of an artillery emplacement.

[27&COUNTING]

...that's about right

[JohnCropp]

Yankee Stadium print from City Prints.

[GordonGecko]

Postseason ticket presale for partial plan holders is Wednesday 9/19:
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/t...ale_letter.jsp

Public can register for a lottery to buy tickets after the plan holders:
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/t...ale_letter.jsp