Yankee stadium's first World Series TV close ups

[hbwriter]

Getting deeper into this game, the amount of empties in the padded VIP seats down close is getting silly. This is the World Series - there are rows that look *entirely* empty. What's the deal?

[NYBase]

This belongs in the NYS thread.

edit: It's awful, those ******* are killing the vibe... chattin' it up, waving and on their blackberries.

[donut726]

because the game is unwatchable. i turned off the TV after the 8th inning

[Strawman]

Getting deeper into this game, the amount of empties in the padded VIP seats down close is getting silly. This is the World Series - there are rows that look *entirely* empty. What's the deal?

As a New Yorker, I hate it - just been schmoozing with lifelong NYY fan friend, and he hates it - said it looks like mid-week snoozefest vs. KC in August and he's right.

[hbwriter]

"This belongs in the NYS thread."
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I disagree - this is specific to one event - tonight - it'll get buried in a generic NYS thread - I say keep it unto itself

[Tullydew]

I just wasted 30 seconds of my life reading this worthless thread. Thanks!

[hbwriter]

this was a good, tight ballgame until the 7th or 8th - those seats were that way a large part of the game - they've gotta get some fired up fans in there for game 2 - don't you think the players want some noise out of that real estate? wonder if tim and joe are allowed to comment on that

[Rob R]

When you're finished with recess you might want to gather the 6 or 22 anti-Yankee threads you've started (I've lost count) that don't warrant their own thread and consolidate them into one. Or maybe put all your comments in the NYS thread.

[mandrake]

this was a good, tight ballgame until the 7th or 8th - those seats were that way a large part of the game - they've gotta get some fired up fans in there for game 2 - don't you think the players want some noise out of that real estate? wonder if tim and joe are allowed to comment on that

One thing that really bothers me is the people who are calling others "Look at me on TV". I would hope one would like to see a WS game from the front row; not to wave to their adoring public .

Even 'stars' usually try to be disguised as regular fans when they go to a game to avoid being hassled. (Unless Fox is pushing your show, then they order you to eat hot dogs for your close up so they can dispel rumors that you are anorexic )

I sat in the front row three times at Citi this year, and I wasn't calling people saying "Look at me now". (I did see myself on the replay, but thankfully no closeups).

As for McCarver, when the Yankees are losing, he seems jovial. I for one do NOT miss him doing Mets games.

OT alert......a BF member called me from Vegas yesterday and left a message saying he was finally eating at In n Out. Hey HB, can you mail me a few since they are in your hood too!!!???

[hbwriter]

When you're finished with recess you might want to gather the 6 or 22 anti-Yankee threads you've started (I've lost count) that don't warrant their own thread and consolidate them into one. Or maybe put all your comments in the NYS thread.

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22? Care to back that up? Anti Yankee? There's been nothing about the team - just the lame, greedy, clueless management - or are you oversensitive about that too?

[locke40]

Getting deeper into this game, the amount of empties in the padded VIP seats down close is getting silly. This is the World Series - there are rows that look *entirely* empty. What's the deal?

I was at the game, and you could "feel" the empty seats. It made me feel worthless; I can't imagine what the players thought/felt.

Everything that happens in this stadium feels anti-climatic. If they can't get every seat filled for a World Series game with some of the best players ever playing on the field, what's going to happen during the lean years (which will happen) for a regular season weekday game in the future?

[mazaratirick07]

Yea i would have to assume that the empty rich seats had to effect the yanks... its not right....frickin WS opener...its a shame

[donut726]

the empty seats affected the Yanks play??? give me a break...when everybody other than Derek Jeter forgets how to play offense in a weather like yesterday's, obviously it's difficult to get the crowd excited.

[locke40]

the empty seats affected the Yanks play??? give me a break...when everybody other than Derek Jeter forgets how to play offense in a weather like yesterday's, obviously it's difficult to get the crowd excited.

I don't agree with mazaratirick07 that the empty seats affected the way they played. Lee pitched masterfully. When I played in college, we would sometimes play in minor league stadiums with about 50 people total in attendance. This didn't faze me one bit, and I played (pitched) just as hard as if it was sold out. What I am saying is that the empty seats gave the whole night an anti-climatic feel. It didn't "feel" like a World Series Game.

[PeteU]

What killed me were the two empty seats directly behind home plate that were vacant for the second half of the game.

You have front row, home plate seats for the freakin' World Series. Unless someone's wife is going into labor, is there any reason why you shouldn't be glued to those seats for the entire 9 innings?

[RationalNYYfan]

What killed me were the two empty seats directly behind home plate that were vacant for the second half of the game.

You have front row, home plate seats for the freakin' World Series. Unless someone's wife is going into labor, is there any reason why you shouldn't be glued to those seats for the entire 9 innings?

I hear there's a fantastic buffet down beneath the stadium.

[hbwriter]

I don't agree with mazaratirick07 that the empty seats affected the way they played. Lee pitched masterfully. When I played in college, we would sometimes play in minor league stadiums with about 50 people total in attendance. This didn't faze me one bit, and I played (pitched) just as hard as if it was sold out. What I am saying is that the empty seats gave the whole night an anti-climatic feel. It didn't "feel" like a World Series Game."

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Locke40 - you are precisely on target and on point - that was my point - some Yankee fans will knee jerk react as usual as if you're attacking all the players - but that's a deflection of the issue - that seat situation has been a disgrace since day one and now that it's under the big microscope, it has become laughable -

[Strawman]

Locke40 - you are precisely on target and on point - that was my point - some Yankee fans will knee jerk react as usual as if you're attacking all the players - but that's a deflection of the issue - that seat situation has been a disgrace since day one and now that it's under the big microscope, it has become laughable -

It brings discredit not just on the franchise, but on the city.

If you buy the argument that a sports team can represent a city and a region in a championship game or series (and I assume that most people do), then this situation is horrendous. Seriously, heads should roll over the disastrous 'Legends' gambit - why are Levine and Trost stilled employed?

The baseball people get the revitalized team to the World Series, and key aspects of the grand new venue - which replaces a beloved and legendary edifice - lets the entire organization down.

It looked like mid-August in Pittsburgh on TV last night.

[hbwriter]

memo to certain thin-skinned NYS apologists - people are starting to notice the empty seats - as they should - and to reiterate - this is not at all about the Yankees team per se - it's about the stadium's empty seats and how ridiculous that looks on TV esp. during this first World Series held there)

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...uring-game-one

[yankies4life]

not to beat a dead horse but these were taken by myself during the 3rd inning.









the yankees front offise and offense were on display as the joke last night

[hbwriter]

and this just in from a CBS Sports article:

"While the pinstripes and pageantry were the same as in past World Series, the atmosphere wasn't. This $1.2 billion palace is sweet and all. It's monstrous, certainly big enough to house the numerous egos, not to mention the vaults needed to store the $400-and-some million the club committed last winter alone to Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Mark Teixeira.

But what it gains in girth, it lacks in soul. When the Yankees came off the field after batting practice, there was no reaction at all. None. In the old place -- and in most stadiums -- that's when the first swell of emotion from the crowd begins.

There were numerous empty rows in the rich-man seats behind home plate and down the baselines throughout the game as the caviar crowd dined in the restaurant underneath.

With the Yankees down 4-0 in the seventh and then 6-0 in the top of the ninth, there were several thousand empty seats. Yes, it was cold and yes, it was soggy. But last anybody checked, the Yankees did lead the majors this year with 15 walk-off wins. And, this is the World Series.

"I thought it was the same," the ever-diplomatic Jeter said of the first World Series game in the new place and how it stacks up against the old cathedral. "The fans were into it.

"But you can put the World Series anywhere in New York and it would be fun."

You know who gets extra credit on this night? The creatures who packed the bleachers on either side of the center-field scoreboard, hollered until they were hoarse and kept the cheap seats packed until the end. That's who."

'Caviar crowd' - great - This ticks me off as a baseball fan (though I'm pulling for the Yanks I am an Angels fan) - it should tick all of us off - it's an affront to the Fall Classic - a slap in the face to those of us who love baseball

[Bazookadale]

I just wasted 30 seconds of my life reading this worthless thread. Thanks!

You're welcome! that's what the internet is for.

[Bazookadale]

What killed me were the two empty seats directly behind home plate that were vacant for the second half of the game.

You have front row, home plate seats for the freakin' World Series. Unless someone's wife is going into labor, is there any reason why you shouldn't be glued to those seats for the entire 9 innings?

As David Letterman pointed out last night, it was chilly and those plastic seats were wet!

It's only the freakin' world series New York!

[mazaratirick07]

i guess i mean it can bring down the moral a bit... either way if the seats were filled they would just have some jack ass cell phone talking non baseball fools in it

[hbwriter]

Tullydew I just wasted 30 seconds of my life reading this worthless thread. Thanks!
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On the flip side, we all wasted about 3.2 seconds reading your post - you're Yankee management I presume

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Yankies4life - that last photo is a killer - there should be a huge outcry over that - thanks for posting!