Category: yankees

Tonight’s Yankee game has been rained out.

I mention this for two reasons:

1.  I like when teams are fan friendly.  If you have Yankees tickets for tonight you can just go home after work.  You don’t have to go to the Bronx, pay $19 (or whatever) to park, sit in the rain, buy two beers, kill your Friday night – and then get told there’s no game, or a 10:35 first pitch.  I wish teams would do this more often.

2.  This tweet is hilarious:

nyp_joelshermanGame at Yankee Stadium rained out tonight, yet the under-over for HRs nevertheless remains 2.

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Here is the quote of the weekend.   The Captain talking about Homer Stadium.

“Why does everyone want to compare this ballpark with the old ballpark?” Jeter asked a writer before the game. “When you buy a new car, you don’t worry about the old one. This is a good hitters’ park, but so was the old Stadium. I loved hitting in the old one. Just because you hit a lot of homers doesn’t necessarily make it a good hitters’ park.”
Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/05/24/2009-05-24_yankees_enjoy_homer_heaven_at_new_yankee_stadium.html#ixzz0GTAepBRw&B


I don’t know, maybe it was the way everyone liked it, or that you could afford it, or that home runs didn’t fly out and absurd rates.  Maybe the memories.  Maybe the way you could pretend Yankee Stadium II was the same place Ruth and DiMaggio played, which you can’t do across the street.   Maybe it’s the way the new place is called “Yankee Stadium.”

Come on Derek, you know damn well why we do it – because the new place is a lemon.

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Seems like Bomber Bucks are making people sad.  I never cared for “Mets Money” either.  I stumbled across this…

Bomber Bucks can only be redeemed at the Yankees ticket window in the Bronx, and tickets for regular folk are hard to come by, at least in person. While you can hunt for tickets as often as you want online, and sometimes get lucky, forget paying for them with Bomber Bucks because you can’t use them online. Tell the ticket window about the tickets you found online on theYankees official site and somehow they become invisible.

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The Yankees, who have been taking a beating of late on New York talk radio over how their fans have been treated since moving to their new stadium, have chosen to remain silent on the matter.

“We do not have an official comment for you,” spokesman Michael Margolis wrote in an email.



Click the link for more things you allegedly can’t do with Bomber Bucks.

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