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As we get ready for three games at Yankee Stadium III, be sure to get to the park before 6:30 so that you can experience the pleasure of Scoreboard Tara.

Scoreboard Tara hosts the pre-game fluff pieces that tell you about the restaurants and whatnot.   Scoreboard Tara, how should we put this, must know someone at the Yankees because there’s no obvious reason why they would have picked her.   She’s not the best presenter and during the Cubs exhibitions her voice was particularly shrill

Scoreboard Tara has so far eluded my attempts to either record her voice or remember her last name (my network of spies think it is something like Cannistrano – Google turns up nothing), so if you are attending this weekend’s games and can be of assistance, please be ready to record her about 45 minutes before the game.

You may come away asking yourself, “How did she get a job hosting something for the New York Yankees?”   Before you get too uspet, just put on the radio and listen to The Voice of The Yankees.  It’s clear nobody pays much attention to this stuff.

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Mets fans, if you’re a high roller you  may be sitting in one of the empty skyboxes or empty Audi Club but I’ll bet you’re a regular folk like me who bought the cheapest ticket and just wants a beer.

Yankee Stadium offers Beers of The World.

Let’s take a look at a menu…

Oh my!  $11.   A friend of mine who will drink at any occasion was taken back by his $11 Guiness.  They Yankees will tell you they have $6 beers, which is true – but they are like two sip beers.

There’s also “Tommy Bahamas” above the Great Hall.  Sounds like fun but it’s just a sectioned off part of the ramp system that sells alcohol.  Nothing exciting.  The old Casey’s 37 was better.

Maybe you’d like a cheesesteak.   These are getting good reviews from anyone I’ve talked to, but once again I am cheap and can’t crash that $10 threshold.

This stand is on the rich people’s field level (I think in Bronxese the level is called “main”) on the first base side.

Also down on the main level is this food court.  There you find the regular folks.   Regular stadium food, none of which is as good as its Citi Field counterparts.

Nearby, by home plate you will find a fancy shmancy restaurant.  I haven’t been in it but doesn’t interest me at all.

I’m partial to the Johnny Rockets shake.  At $7 it fills me up.  You’ll find this Johnny Rockets in the CF bleachers.

Also in CF I found this stand.   I’m squinting but it looks like you can buy a pulled pork sandwich.

Over by the museum I saw this kosher stand.  Haven’t tried it yet.

My suggestion:  have a $6 beer (at a regular stand) and a hot dog, call it a day, and go out to eat on the way home.  There’s no Shake Shack or Taqueria in this place.

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We want our fellow Mets fans to know what to expect this weekend, so here’s a collection of all things Yankee.

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The other day as part of Pile On The Yankees Day II, it was once again observed that the Yankee Stadium batting practice policies stink.

This article I think is a good illustration of how teams no longer “get it” and a good illustration of why you become a fan, and how you come to love someone not-that-good like a Lee Mazzilli.

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Like anything else you get used to it. Every time I visit New Yankee it is less jarring.

Tonight was the first night I entered thru Gate 6 (to the great hall) which is a much better experience than Gate 8 (by the new parking lot and into the bleachers.).

It was raining and I was with a newbie (Yankee fan) so I showed him around. If you spend a lot of time on the lower deck its reasonably nice. I will say that there was no problem moving around the place and we did two full circuits.

I was curious which of their 19 uniform combinations the Yanks would wear – they went with the white pinstripes, no names on back and navy hats. I thought maybe they would wear the hybrid hats, or the navy jerseys, or come out dressed with Star Trek logos. (Note to Yankees fans, that was sarcastic commentary on the Mets wardrobe).

I sat a little closer to home than usual (thanks $5 special!) and that helped. I learned there is an out of town scoreboard which I couldn’t see from section 401 last time.

Speaking of scoreboards – scoreboard Tara made an appearance. I took pics of her (on the video screen) but didn’t have my real camera with me so I couldn’t capture video so you can truly experience her.

I took lots of pics which will result in tons of posts over the next few weeks.

We found a cool merchandise stand by the Yankees museum that sells vintage yearbooks and old baseball cards. Found a few new food places. Newbie was shocked by his $11 beer pricetag. He did enjoy his cheesesteak. I’m a cheapo and can’t cross the $10 barrier (Citi taqueria walks up to it but won’t cross it, love you guys).

I still hate the cinder block ramps. I think Monument Park is misplaced and should be flipped with the visitors bullpen location.

The Bob Sheppard Jeter intro has to stop after one at bat. It gets annoying even though I love Bob. Time to move on. Paul Olden it is (I guess).

When exiting (from the uppers) use the stairs at the end of the deck. You’ll save yourself a ton of time.
(At Citi use the ramps, the stairs dump you on field level and then you’re stuck in that slow moving crowd).
I see the Mets were rained out. Did anyone get injured while I was watching A-Rod get booed?

The verdict continues to be that New Yankee Stadium is the third best stadium in town (until they knock down the old one).

Here’s a question for the class: Citi vs Yankee Stadium 1976 version.

Plenty of pics coming over the next few weeks. I will spread them out so we don’t become a Yankees blog more than I already stray.