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Vote For New York Mets Citi Field Over Yankee Stadium

The folks over at WNBC’s Web site, NBCNewYork.com sent us a nice note today – and since it’s a “pile on the Yankees day” I’m game.

This year we launched a fun campaign called Golden Local, where we ask station viewers and site users to vote for one of two New York institutions. So far we’ve done bagels, steakhouses, hot dogs and old bars.

But looking ahead to the Subway Series in less than two weeks, I think we’ve got our best debate yet — Best New Stadium.

So I’m writing to you to see if you’d be interested in writing about or at least mentioning or linking to our Golden Local debate page, and asking some of your readers to go to it and vote for Citi Field. 


Since everyone in New York except the New Stadium Insider (who has a really great blog actually, but is blind to relative niceness of stadiums), we all know who should win this contest – however, since there may be other delusional Yankees fans out there, lets make sure the Mets win (even if there are awful obstructed views in the Promenade).

The NBCers sent over some links below….click them so they see that people visited their website from this one – maybe someone over there will notice the obstructed views story.

The main Golden Local page:

Article — Yankees, Mets Fans Talk Trash in Golden Local Debate

Video — David Wright Makes His Case For Citi Field

Video — Yankees, Mets Fans Debate Over Best Stadium

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New Yankee Stadium Crappy For Autographs (Times)

Looks like it’s another “pile on the Yankees” day.  The Times has a nice piece about how you’re unlikely to get an autograph.

Jason Zillo, a Yankees spokesman, said that both players and fans were still adjusting to the new space and that the Yankees were making efforts to better connect players with fans. “Autographs are a part of that,” he said.

Inside the stadium on a recent Sunday, fans tried to get autographs during batting practice, young children and their parents lining up against the right-field wall and calling out to players as they warmed up. When Joba Chamberlain, a promising pitcher known for being somewhat generous with his signature, sauntered into right field, the crowd cried for his attention. After a short warm-up, he departed without signing an autograph.


Among the disappointed were David Thoreen’s two sons, Sam, 9, and Henry, 13.


Pile on the Yankees by reading the article here.

Me, I met Tom Seaver when I was 4.

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Yahoo Sports Is Killing New Yankee Stadium

Yahoo Sports is one of the most read websites every day – so I’m sure that the Yankees are thrilled that they are being killed.
 
Here’s the story and here’s an excerpt:
But the Yankees? There are serious questions about why the home of the most decorated team in sports is playing like a Little League field. This isn’t some non-issue, and it’s not going away. Players think it’s crazy. Executives think it’s crazy. Fans think it’s crazy. There must be an explanation for how this happened. Something went wrong somewhere, and the Yankees will remedy it.


“I understand your point,” McGillion emailed, “but we are not going to comment.”
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Much of Rybarczyk’s findings center on the new Yankee Stadium’s dimensions. The Yankees continue to say publicly that they are the same as the old stadium. Rybarczyk argues otherwise, using modeling software to show that the fences in right field and right-center field are four feet closer than the House That Ruth Built – and 17 feet closer than the average fences on the right side of other ballparks. The left and left-center fences, Rybarczyk said, were moved in three feet. The Yankees did push the center-field fence back 3½ feet, though only 11 percent of home runs land there, so it doesn’t exactly offset the launching-pad effects of the gaps and lines.

Wow there’s so much here.  That’s just a small taste.  You have to read the whole thing.

Maybe New Stadium Insider will stop being the only person who thinks New Yankee is better than Citi Field.  You guys have a lemon, and will have a lemon until 2070.

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Good Lupica About Yankee Stadium

Mike Lupica had two great observations about Yankee Lemon Stadium over the weekend.  (Maybe they could claim to be honoring former manager Bob Lemon and say it is named after him).

Right now I don’t know if I can do anything about the wind,” Trost said a few weeks ago.
Well, it might work that way now with the Yankees, but it’s sure not the way it worked when somebody – George Steinbrenner himself – was actually in charge of things. Steinbrenner used to fire managers and general managers and team presidents and P.R. guys and even secretaries for sport. You don’t think the old windbag would have fired somebody for wind?


Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/05/24/2009-05-24_new_yankee_stadiums_home_run_barrage_should_be_an_easy_sell_for_yankees.html?page=1#ixzz0GTCLODIA&B




I still think the solution to the moat/autographs situation is for Rubenstein to put out one of those George Statements like back in the day.   They can just write it, they probably always did…and just start with some made up line from George like “I have been away for too long and…”

The other great point by Lupica is that the Yankees have stopped drawing 50,000.   Wait til next year when nobody goes.

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