Good points Cliffy If the team would just win the fans will fill the place or at least they SHOULD.
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uhhh ... the team is in the ALCS ... it IS winning ... you can't say the stadium would have been filled if they were winning because if they weren't - they wouldn't be a game ...
like a lot of pro sports ... it's all about dollars, corporate boxes and catering to the wealthy ... people that have no real interest in the game but rather are there just because it's "cool" ... real fans are being pushed away in a lot of places ...
Yeah you are correct, it does come down to money and who can affprd it....mostly wealthy people with cash they can blow on a game. I'm pretty sure it's no different at Fenway Park and many other ball parks. Here in South Florida I went to my first game over the summer to Marlins Park and we got nice seats along the first base line 29 rows up for $40 bucks in a closed airconditioned stadium. After the game a very nice fireworks show that was a good bang for a buck.
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That being said, it's embarrassing at the severe lack of contact and the strikeouts they are piling up 67 in 72 innings now.
great article, thanks for posting. this sums it ALL up:
No matter how the Yankees spin this – team president Randy Levine had the hubris to blame StubHub – the swiss-cheese crowd is a stunning indictment on their failures to transition the atmosphere of the old stadium to the new one.
sickening. i was 16 and sitting in the very last row in the right field bleachers during game 6 of the 1998 ALCS game against the indians, and when the yankees got the final out to advance to the WS, me, my dad, my uncle were BANGING THE SHIT out of the aluminum like backing behind us and i remember an NYPD cop JOINING US in the the ruckus. by far the best experience i ever had at a live sporting event. the stadium was one big party with 50K in attendance.
times have changed. any chance they can knock down the new stadium and put the old one back up?
sickening. i was 16 and sitting in the very last row in the right field bleachers during game 6 of the 1998 ALCS game against the indians, and when the yankees got the final out to advance to the WS, me, my dad, my uncle were BANGING THE SHIT out of the aluminum like backing behind us and i remember an NYPD cop JOINING US in the the ruckus. by far the best experience i ever had at a live sporting event. the stadium was one big party with 50K in attendance.
times have changed. any chance they can knock down the new stadium and put the old one back up?
Still wondering why they tore it down.
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sickening. i was 16 and sitting in the very last row in the right field bleachers during game 6 of the 1998 ALCS game against the indians, and when the yankees got the final out to advance to the WS, me, my dad, my uncle were BANGING THE SHIT out of the aluminum like backing behind us and i remember an NYPD cop JOINING US in the the ruckus. by far the best experience i ever had at a live sporting event. the stadium was one big party with 50K in attendance.
times have changed. any chance they can knock down the new stadium and put the old one back up?
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as cocky as it sounds, it should have became the new baseball hall of fame. the new cooperstown.
:thumbup: Not cocky at all.
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Arod flirting with the girl in the stands during the game???????
i've had enough of these clowns
shows you how much he really cares..they should just cut him
fucking steroid bum
:fp: Please tell me that's not true.
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as cocky as it sounds, it should have became the new baseball hall of fame. the new cooperstown.
:thumbup: Not cocky at all.
Cooperstown is perfect as is.
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If I was one of the women, I'd have replied back by asking if someone could pinch hit for him on the date and if that someone could get a hit with runners in scoring position or make contact..
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If I was one of the women, I'd have replied back by asking if someone could pinch hit for him on the date and if that someone could get a hit with runners in scoring position or make contact..
Ha, that's pretty funny.
While I'll agree it is very poor timing and a very Arod thing to do, especially when he is playing so terribly, I just can't get too worked up over this. From what I understand, he was already out of the game and you know, ballplayers have been doing this shit since the day the game was invented. Well, at least when chicks started going to games some 50 years ago.
Two things this morning made me realize what a different game it is today. The Matt Holiday slide and this.
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Yeah you are correct, it does come down to money and who can affprd it....mostly wealthy people with cash they can blow on a game. I'm pretty sure it's no different at Fenway Park and many other ball parks. Here in South Florida I went to my first game over the summer to Marlins Park and we got nice seats along the first base line 29 rows up for $40 bucks in a closed airconditioned stadium. After the game a very nice fireworks show that was a good bang for a buck.
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great article, thanks for posting. this sums it ALL up:
No matter how the Yankees spin this – team president Randy Levine had the hubris to blame StubHub – the swiss-cheese crowd is a stunning indictment on their failures to transition the atmosphere of the old stadium to the new one.
sickening. i was 16 and sitting in the very last row in the right field bleachers during game 6 of the 1998 ALCS game against the indians, and when the yankees got the final out to advance to the WS, me, my dad, my uncle were BANGING THE SHIT out of the aluminum like backing behind us and i remember an NYPD cop JOINING US in the the ruckus. by far the best experience i ever had at a live sporting event. the stadium was one big party with 50K in attendance.
times have changed. any chance they can knock down the new stadium and put the old one back up?
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I'm all for putting the old one back.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
as cocky as it sounds, it should have became the new baseball hall of fame. the new cooperstown.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
i've had enough of these clowns
shows you how much he really cares..they should just cut him
fucking steroid bum
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
wrote his info on a ball ..gave it to the ballboy to give to the girl
the people around the girl wanted to know what it said
story broke like that
its very true
Well if he can't score on the field might as well try to score somewhere else. :fp:
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/rod_pl ... gdu1bvXCLP
i said the same....
at least he stopped when jeter broke his ankle :roll:
Trade him to a Korean Legue and pay his salary.
If I was one of the women, I'd have replied back by asking if someone could pinch hit for him on the date and if that someone could get a hit with runners in scoring position or make contact..
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Ha, that's pretty funny.
While I'll agree it is very poor timing and a very Arod thing to do, especially when he is playing so terribly, I just can't get too worked up over this. From what I understand, he was already out of the game and you know, ballplayers have been doing this shit since the day the game was invented. Well, at least when chicks started going to games some 50 years ago.
Two things this morning made me realize what a different game it is today. The Matt Holiday slide and this.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/ ... nd-laughs/
And then this Arod outrage. Shit, Mickey Mantle laughs at that...
that's a whole new country of women! ... i'm pretty sure he'd be ok with that ...
but not in the ALCS while the "team" is getting embarassed ....after he had gotten benched for being a bum who makes 30 mil
I agree that it was terrible timing and shows a lack of awareness, which is nothing new with him, I just don't think it has any impact on anything.
i am really enjoying the alcs this year.
And I bet you are enjoying the NLCS even more so with the Phillies doing so well.........oh wait. I was mistaken.
as you should..one of the guys you didn't need made history twice in 4 days