Here is the quote of the weekend. The Captain talking about Homer Stadium.
“Why does everyone want to compare this ballpark with the old ballpark?” Jeter asked a writer before the game. “When you buy a new car, you don’t worry about the old one. This is a good hitters’ park, but so was the old Stadium. I loved hitting in the old one. Just because you hit a lot of homers doesn’t necessarily make it a good hitters’ park.”
Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/05/24/2009-05-24_yankees_enjoy_homer_heaven_at_new_yankee_stadium.html#ixzz0GTAepBRw&B
I don’t know, maybe it was the way everyone liked it, or that you could afford it, or that home runs didn’t fly out and absurd rates. Maybe the memories. Maybe the way you could pretend Yankee Stadium II was the same place Ruth and DiMaggio played, which you can’t do across the street. Maybe it’s the way the new place is called “Yankee Stadium.”
Come on Derek, you know damn well why we do it – because the new place is a lemon.
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