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One friend points out even on YES there are obstructed views now thanks to the netting. He is predicting a new premium channel called YES Grandstand in which you’d pay extra for a view from above the net. I wonder if that comes with a fan for behind your neck?

I mentioned Suzyn and Sterling were saying it was freezing last night.  Friends in Westchester and Northern NJ reported it was “light jacket” weather, one Mets Police reader said it was 58 in NJ, and here in the bunker I was outside in shorts.  Accuweather, the Yankee Stadium experts, says the low temperature yesterday in the Bronx was 47 degrees.  “Freezing?”   It’s only 53 out right now.

I’m hearing from fans who were there last night that it is quite cold at New Yankee.

I enjoyed the fog that was there when I came back to the game for the 9th.  I’m convinced the ghosts like this new place.

Switching between Cardinals (Mets) and Yankees last night, the difference in crowd noise was quite shocking. It’s as if they don’t mike the crowd in the Bronx. Of course empty chairs don’t make much sound.

Finally, congratulations to the Yankees on being the winningest team at Yankee Stadium, an honor previously held by the Indians

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That sure looks like a public gathering at Old Yankee Stadium, doesn’t it?

New Stadium Insider has the scoop.

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Great job out of Accuweather!

The old Yankee stadium had more stacked tiers and a large upper deck, acting like a solid wall in effect, which would cause the wind to swirl more and be less concentrated. The new Yankee stadium’s tiers are less stacked, making a less sharp slope from the top of the stadium to the field. This shape could enable winds to blow across the field with less restriction. In addition, the slope of the seating would also lead to a “downslope” effect in the field which, depending on wind direction, would tend to cause air to lift up in the right field. Fly balls going into right field during a gusty west wind would be given more of a lift thus carrying the ball farther out into right field.

If the stadium seating tier shape is indeed the issue, games will only be affected during times with the winds are from a westerly direction and above 10 mph. This typically occurs during the spring and the middle to late fall. The calmer weather during the summer should lead to a smaller number of home runs. In the meantime, the home run derby may continue.

Read the whole thing here!  Very well done and makes sense.

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ESPN has two pieces about New Yankee Stadium:

New Yankee Stadium a home run nightmare

“With the way the wind has been the last couple of days, right field is a joke,” one official said. “I would say at least three or four home runs in this series would be routine outs in nearly every park.”

(at this pace)….there would be about 400 homers hit in the park this year — or an increase of about 250 percent. In the last year of old Yankee Stadium, in 2008, there were a total of 160 homers.

Buster Olney writes in a separate column

Sure, there are a handful of problems that need to be sorted out in Citi Field, the Mets’ new ballpark. The visiting relievers can’t really see the games from their bullpen in right-center field, and their video screen operates with a delay of about 15 seconds (by the count of the Brewers’ relievers). There is little hot water and no music in the visiting clubhouse, and they need to squeegee out the whirlpool because of a drainage issue.

But those are minor details that can be ironed out eventually. The Yankees, on the other hand, might have a whopper of a problem on their hands that could have long-term, big-picture ramifications for them. Their new ballpark is playing like Coors Field East. 

The Yankees totaled five homers Friday, and the Indians launched six Saturday. If you include the two exhibition games played against the Cubs the weekend before the season started, there have been 25 homers in five games, and already word has gotten around baseball about the acute hitting conditions at the new park in the Bronx. A number of rival executives wrote e-mails late Saturday indicating that they’d heard from their own scouts and other sources that new Yankee Stadium plays very, very differently than old Yankee Stadium.

The “mainstream  media” is on empty seats and home runs at New Yankee today.  Cool by me!

From the Times…

Another first impression of the new Yankee Stadium is that it has plenty in common with Arthur Ashe Stadium at the United States Open tennis tournament in Queens, where two tiers of luxury boxes constitute a no-person’s land of empty seats and yawning silence, except when Agassi plays Sampras, which isn’t likely to happen again.

Yankees management claimed an attendance of 43,068 on Sunday, but you could not prove that by the gaping sections of expensive seats from dugout to dugout. Either the Yankees have not actually sold those seats, or the bankers and brokers with the corporate seats are taking weekend jobs to make ends meet in this rotten economy they helped create. Either way, it is quiet at the new Stadium.

“You guys call yourselves Yankee fans? Make some noise!” one loud bloke was shouting in the stands just before Posada elevated his home run. 

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Mets fans have to decide how they feel about the wretched sightlines thousands of them have purchased. Yankees fans seem to be opting for the $5 seats alongside the restaurant, named for a gambling den, that juts out in the middle of the center-field bleachers, killing the peripheral vision for hundreds of fans

Enjoy the article.

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