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Bad TV Angles At New Yankee Stadium (Times)

Poor Yankees fans.  Well, you had your century.  Enjoy “Yankee Stadium” until the renovation in 2059 fixes the TV angles.
SPORTS
By By Richard Sandomir
Published: April 6, 2009
Safety netting interferes with the home plate camera angle at the new Yankee Stadium.

During Saturday afternoon’s Yankees-Cubs exhibition game at the stadium, YES seemed to avoid using the camera shot as much as it normally would. The team and YES have until opening day on April 16 to try to ameliorate the problem. But the layout of the stadium, well known since 2006, seems to argue against the likelihood of any possible alteration.
Eric Handler, a YES spokesman, said: “We’re looking at everything and trying to be as creative as possible.”

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Yankees Lose to Orioles 7-5. Let the Panic Begin!

Let the Yankees panic begin!

The Yankees are now 0-2 thanks to Chein-Ming Wang who gae up 7 runs and 9 hits in 3 and 2/3.

So far the Yankees starting pitching has been awful.

Tomorrow A.J. Burnett gets an early important start.  It will not be good for the psyche of the Yankee fan if the team goes 0-3.

A bad start combined with Yankee fans discovering next week that (a) the New Stadium is a bust and (b) the New Stadium doesn’t even look good on TV (unless you like netting) – well that’s not going to be good.

Where’s George Steinbrenner for a good tantrum when we need him?

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"Earlier" Start Times For World Series

I guess it’s better than nothing….
 

“We are working with baseball and I think we all have the same agenda,” said Fox Sports president Ed Goren. “And this is to get to first pitch more efficiently than we have in the past. We are continuing to have discussions to make that happen.”

 

Although Goren declined to provide specifics, an industry source to told the newspaper that the plan could call for the first pitch to be thrown between 7:50 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET. That would be about 30 minutes earlier than in recent seasons.

 

7:59 is better than 8:29 but these are not the start times we are looking for.   It sucks when you watch your team all year and have to fall asleep during the playoffs.

 

Don’t whine to me about California, more than 50% of the US population lives in the eastern time zone, and I’d rather miss the first inning than the 9th.  Plus it’s easier to sneak the game/tape the game/listen on the radio/follow on the web, than it is to stick toothpicks under your eyes at 12:35am.   Remember those classic 11pm first pitches for Diamondbacks-Mets?

 

While we’re talking start times, a pox on the Padres for not playing the Mets at 4:05 Monday.  

 

Full story here:

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=536513

 

 

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