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Sure Is Annoying To Listen To The New York Yankees On The Radio

Now that you’ve read the headline, don’t jump on me as a Yankee hater yet.  I enjoy them.  There are 6 games a year (and one World Series every 50) where I hope they lose.  Other than that I wish them well.  I buy tickets to their games, have written about Why I Don’t Hate Them  and I used to really enjoy Sterling and Kay because they would weave a sports talk show around the pitches.  However….

I gotta tell you they are becoming really annoying to listen to.   Suzyn Waldman complains every night about how long the game is and seems annoyed to even be there.   I loved her work on WFAN, but she’s just wrong for this role.  I’ve yet to meet a Yankees fan who enjoys her in the booth.

Then there is John Sterling.  I won’t break any ground here, but you all know the issues.   Corny forced home run calls (a fun game on the internet is “make up John Sterling calls for the Mets”) and rose colored glasses.  This afternoon I learned about winning runs on first – why not say the winning run is on deck, or in the hole – and how the Twins were “lucky” on plays.  

Good play by play announcers (like Howie Rose) lead you with their voice, so you have a sense of the play without seeing it.   Sterling will get you all pumped up for what seems to be the most incredible play in the history of baseball before he chooses to mention that the right fielder is under Teixeira’s ball.   Awful.

I guess I can’t be surprised with all the other terrible decisions that the Yankees have made that they choose to have this man as the “voice” of the Yankees.   The radio booth is just another example of something the Mets do better, and why this will become Mets town for good.

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Mean Ushers At Yakee Stadium (Albany Times Union)

Interesting tid-bits from a writer for the Albany Times Union, writing about the moat.

When I tried to ask one of the employees about this lack of access, I found out a very interesting thing. All employees had been asked to sign a statement that they would not talk to the media, and he didn’t want to do it because he had already had one friend whose supervisor had threatened to “write him up” for doing so on Opening Day.

At this point, the employee sounded more scared than evil, which got me to thinking: Is the mean usher really mean, or just afraid of losing his job if he doesn’t enforce some awful policy?

The full article is here.


I too have found the ushers to be ridiculous.  When I went to the Cubs exhibition my seats were in 405.  As I carried a tray of dogs and beer the usher (who I had said hi to earlier) asked to see my ticket.   I asked him if he really thought I was trying to sneak into the last section of the upper deck with a 50 mile an hour wind in my face.

Two hours before a game if you try to take a picture of a five year old up close to the seats (and I mean the back of a field level section, not up against the moat) they chase you behind the yellow line.   I have found some nice guys who get it, but I’ve also found some sticklers.

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New York Yankees Play PR Game Well But The Moat Is Still Up

Well played Lonn Trost….at least the Daily News and a good looking former NFL QB who probably hasn’t paid for a ticket since he was 12 have bought into your tricks.  Hopefully the bloggers will call you on it so the mainstream press can by Monday.

What is not being said below (from the Daily News) is that you still can’t enter the legends suites…which means that you can forage for autographs in the corners with the rest of the riff raff but don’t you dare cross the moat.   Best line yesterday was that the Yankees might hire snipers to keep you out.

OK I gotta go to work – New Stadium Insider this is all you baby.

The Yankees have changed the policy that barred fans from entering sections adjacent to the field during BP. Regardless of where their ticketed seats are, Yankees spokeswomanAlice McGillionsaid spectators will be permitted into all the areas without protective screening while the Yankees hit. The sections where they are permitted are on the field level, Sections 103-111 and 129-136, and also all Bleachers sections.
Fans will be asked to return to their ticketed seats “following the conclusion of the Yankees’ batting practice or 1 hour and 45 minutes after the gates open,” the new policy says.
Under the old policy, only fans with tickets in those sections were allowed there during batting practice. Seats in those sections, many between the dugouts and the foul poles, sell at $95 on game days.
“The club decided to liberalize the policy,” McGillion said. “Now anyone with a ticket can come down into those sections and get close during batting practice.”


Read more: “Daily News gets fans closer to batting practice at new Yankee Stadium” –http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/05/14/2009-05-14_news_gets_fans_closer_to_yankees_batting_practice.html#ixzz0FZQs6cTw&A

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