hello, new face here

[mjrennie]

from england. manchester born, live now in the midlands.

coming to nyc in may, got 5 tix for tier reserved block 8. do i need safety ropes and oxygen?

came to nyc last easter and loved it. got on a tour of the stadium and was blown away. the most exciting city on earth. best i have ever been to. rome is cool but nyc has everything.

we have a satellite package that gives us live baseball. beginning to replace football (soccer) in our house as the number 1 sport. got the sox dodgers game last thursday and mets tribe on friday. i know it's only spring training, but to see boston go 5-0 up and concede 7 in the 9th was funny. grand slam was sweet. have to say, baseball training is even more gentle that pre-season football friendlies here, which are no more than a gentle stroll and a few beers for the travelling fans, who tend to behave like humans rather than as warring factions.

stayed at the radisson on lex ave at easter (aparently joe di maggio lived there), got an apartment on nassau street in downtown this may. gonna be great. come on the yanks.


anyway, kind regards from the uk ,

michael.

[mjrennie]

oh, and 1 pound to 1 dollar 94! thanks for that. half price everything for us then! got nearly 4k dollars for 2k sterling last saturday. it's just double your money time. lol. not good for americans coming this way though.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

oh, and 1 pound to 1 dollar 94! thanks for that. half price everything for us then! got nearly 4k dollars for 2k sterling last saturday. it's just double your money time. lol. not good for americans coming this way though.

That is why I am looking forward to my vacation this summer. I will spend some time in California. and watch some games of course.

Have fun.

BTW Welcome here. Hope you enjoy your stay. Can't have enough European Yankee fans around.

[hellborn]

Good thing I indoctrinated the Roggero family of Parabiago, Italy into the Red Sox Nation to counterbalance you guys!
:cap:

Seriously, have a great time in NYC and enjoy your baseball. I met a bunch of friends in NYC for baseball (Mets and Yanks) and good times two seasons ago, and we had a fantastic time. Even the guy trying to scam us on the subway was fun.

[DoubleX]

Welcome. Being from England, how did you get into baseball and the Yankees in particular? Is baseball increasing in popularity over there?

My mother is actually from Manchester and I've spent a lot of time there. She grew up a United fan, though most of the rest of her family are City fans.

[mjrennie]

united, what! lol. no, like most mancunians, i am city through and through my friend.

how did i get into the yankees? well, we arrived in nyc and decided to check out the stadium tour. i am a fan of all things historic when it comes to sport and i love something with history. and, that place is dripping with it. i thought it was like going into a cathedral. we then picked up the games on YES whilst in the hotel and i could not take my eyes off the games. it then snowballed, i just love it.

as for baseball in the uk, no, i no of no other fan. there are some, of course, but literally noone i know has any clue about it. but, they know the name new york yankees. not neceassarily what they are, but the name and the ny symbol are on caps everywhere. i sometimes want to ask if they are fans, but i know they have no clue.

michael.

[duckydps]

Welcome to the board! I don't post too often in the Yankees section but I do enjoy reading the threads. There are lots of very knowledgeable fans on this board, so enjoy!

[mjrennie]

thanks for the warmth. now, how about those tier reserved block 8 tix? what can i expect? the city of manchester stadium in england is about the samish size, but, and it is a big but, football swings all over the pitch so you get a decent view wherever. baseball is mainly focussed around that 60 foot stretch. best to be closer then. can't say i am too arsed, i just want to go to a game at that place.

[Urbanshocker13]

thanks for the warmth. now, how about those tier reserved block 8 tix? what can i expect? the city of manchester stadium in england is about the samish size, but, and it is a big but, football swings all over the pitch so you get a decent view wherever. baseball is mainly focussed around that 60 foot stretch. best to be closer then. can't say i am too arsed, i just want to go to a game at that place.

The Upper Deck (where Tier reserved is) are pretty good view fo an Upper Deck. It hangs over the 2nd deck so part of the field is block off atleast down the lines, not that much but still if a ball goes into the corner you won't see it. The seats are steep so it's fun walken up and down them, because of the price of tickets in the stadium the Upper Deck is where all the normal fans sit (all the real fans) the lower seats have more of a corprate crowd now so the atmosphere is allot better up top and more of what you expect from a baseball game (not as rowdy as the Bleechers but better views and you can still drink beer in the upper deck) I think you will be pleased with your vist to the stadium, it is an experience all by it's self.
Who are the Yanks playing when you go? I was lucky enough to score Tickets to Yanks/redsox game on July5! If ever get a chance to go to a Yanks/Sox game it is worth going! My mom's family lives in Essex now(they are from Norther Ireland), and my uncles are as confussed about baseball as I am about 'football'(Soccor) Glad to see you on the board and good luck with the game.

[mjrennie]

the tix are versus the mariners.

no idea what baseball crowds are like, but in football (soccer), we still have segregation. violence is still a feature of our national sport, not too clever really. thing is, it is very tribal and some real hatred exists bewteen certain regions, eg manchester-liverpool, north-south. and the intra-city rivalry is heavy.

so, a feisty crowd is not alien to me, hope to sit with real fans and sample the american sports watcher mentality. should be really interesting.

[DoubleX]

the tix are versus the mariners.

no idea what baseball crowds are like, but in football (soccer), we still have segregation. violence is still a feature of our national sport, not too clever really. thing is, it is very tribal and some real hatred exists bewteen certain regions, eg manchester-liverpool, north-south. and the intra-city rivalry is heavy.

so, a feisty crowd is not alien to me, hope to sit with real fans and sample the american sports watcher mentality. should be really interesting.

I assume you mean segregation between the fans of each team? When you say segregation here, typically it evokes a much different thought and reaction (as in racial).

Fans of the teams do commingle at the stadiums here, but the home team fans typically vastly outnumber the visiting team's fans. With a team like the Mariners, who play 3000 miles away from New York, you're not going to get many Mariner fans at Yankee Stadium (though there will be some). Emotions between fans only really rise when you get something like the Yankees vs. Red Sox. There is a deep rivalry there and more fans of the visiting team make the trek to the other team's stadium because the cities are much closer. But it's still not quite like the hooliganism you can get over in Europe or South America.

[mjrennie]

I assume you mean segregation between the fans of each team? When you say segregation here, typically it evokes a much different thought and reaction (as in racial).

Fans of the teams do commingle at the stadiums here, but the home team fans typically vastly outnumber the visiting team's fans. With a team like the Mariners, who play 3000 miles away from New York, you're not going to get many Mariner fans at Yankee Stadium (though there will be some). Emotions between fans only really rise when you get something like the Yankees vs. Red Sox. There is a deep rivalry there and more fans of the visiting team make the trek to the other team's stadium because the cities are much closer. But it's still not quite like the hooliganism you can get over in Europe or South America.

yeah, definitely, i meant segregation between rival fans. in the 70's and 80's, away fans would be kept in pens. seriously, i have been in many. it actaully made things worse because it enabled gangas of away fans to get together and whip each other into a frenzy. occasionally, the visitors would be given a police escort from the local railway station and would have to run a gauntlet of bottles, darts, bricks. i've seen some really nasty stuff.

the distance thing is interesting too. the absolute furthest any fan would have to travel to watch their premier league team play away is about 300 miles. most are less than 100. the uk is tiny really. lake superior is bigger than england and i think texas is 3 times the area of the uk. i checked out a rail trip to niagara from new york and nearly fell off my seat when it came back with 7 hours. the us is just vast.

[Cajun Yankee]

Here's some different views from Tier 8, Row W. Hope it helps.

[hellborn]

the tix are versus the mariners.

no idea what baseball crowds are like, but in football (soccer), we still have segregation. violence is still a feature of our national sport, not too clever really. thing is, it is very tribal and some real hatred exists bewteen certain regions, eg manchester-liverpool, north-south. and the intra-city rivalry is heavy.

so, a feisty crowd is not alien to me, hope to sit with real fans and sample the american sports watcher mentality. should be really interesting.

A Mariners game should be pretty tame, I would think. Should be fun for you to see Ichiro play, too. The Stadium will definitely not be crawling with Seattle fans causing trouble!
Red Sox/Yankees games are typically very tense in both cities. Last time I was in NYC, I had four huge, drunk bums in front of me who were just itching to fight...I know the same happens to a lot of Yanks fans in Fenway, seems like there will be 5-10 fights per game that require security. There's really no way to segregate fans, though...you're buying tickets for particular seats, so everybody gets intermingled.

BTW, Boston is a fairly short drive/ride from NYC...fun city, obviously on a vastly different scale than NYC. The White Mountains of NH or the Green Mountains of VT are also closer to NYC than Niagara.

[Urbanshocker13]

Even RedSox Yankees is nothing even close to Europen Football in violence and rowdness! There might be a few fist fights in the crowd and outside because of drunken idiots, but not riots or anything. Most you will see is name calling and making fun of visting fans, chants like "A___hole" and "redsox(or whetever team) suck". As there is a natural riverly between New England and New York, nothing like the tribalism of Europe! It's mostly lighthearted razzing between fans, Like I am going to the Yanks/Sox game with my dad and his friend who is a Boston fan, so we are going to ripping on each other the wholee time. What you should expect is alot of chanting and cheering, if the Ump makes a bad call alot of boos and cures yelled down at him, and some annoying drunken idiots but you should have a great time, especially if it's a good game and the Yanks are winning. So have a way too expensive watered down beer and a hotdog and have a great time! If you get a chance you should check out Boston and other US cities, Boston is a fun place and a nice historic city even though it has that one baseball team that shall remain nameless.