Some wisdom from Big League Stew!
When looking at the old place, it’s hard to refrain from yelling out “Hey wait! This is still a perfectly good ballpark! Stop!” It’s hard to resist the urge to hatch a plan to tear down that exoskeleton of destruction, truck in enough folding chairs to seat a small city and hold Game 1 there tonight. How many folks not named Steinbrenner would complain? How many of tonight’s ticket holders would actually prefer it that way?
Really good piece about how the players don’t care.
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The linked Yahoo article doesn't say that the players don't care in a way that they wouldn't mind moving back, it just says that they don't mind the new place much.
Of course, the players have experienced as much of an upgrade in amenities as any of the fans. After all, even if an extensive renovation had been done on Shea or the Old Yankee Stadium, there wouldn't have been any place to put things like an indoor batting cage, which can make a huge difference for players on days when the weather doesn't allow BP — or for that one or two players who want to get extra cuts before/after BP.
Let's face it, if your primary experience of new ballparks was sitting in front of the moat at the New Yankee Stadium, you might have a hard time understanding why anyone wouldn't like the new ballpark.
Anyway, tonight I make my second trip to the new ballpark in the Bronx. A client offered me a free pair of seats, and my wife is a huge Yankee fan, so we're going. Our seats are the "Jim Beam Suites," which means they're the front part of the upper deck, behind the plate. What's interesting to me is that they use the word "suite" when it isn't a suite, but rather seats with club access. The club would be a welcome way to warm up this time of year, except unlike Citi Field, the club in the upper deck doesn't have a view of the field. I wonder how it is that the Yankees spent twice as much as the Mets on their new ballpark, but couldn't get basic things right, like field views from all the clubs…