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Hi Yankees fans, welcome to hell.

Let’s total up rings for this century.   Boston 2, Yankees 0.   You want to count 2000 even though that was in the 20th century?  Fine.  2-1.  (I’m well aware that the Mets haven’t won in 23 seasons.  WELL aware.)

Now you have your wonderful new home run happy ballpark, with true Yankees like Johnny Damon and A-Rod    trying to help you win.   The team doesn’t even sell out any more.

Meanwhile…
All nine games at Fenway have been sellouts, extending the Major League record that began in May 2003 to 478 straight full houses. 

`I say this in all humility, we pride ourselves with being in touch with our fans. (Team owners) John Henry and Tom Werner came to us and spoke about how much is going on, how we need to be sensitive to what is happening in the country. We froze our ticket prices and our concessions prices. We’ve started the Fenway Family Hour,’’ Kennedy said.

What’s great is that the ballpark is 97 years old, you might actually sit behind a pole, and there’s no talk of replacing it.   The Red Sox have become the Yankees, and the Yankees have become the Rockies.

Well done everyone.   The Old Yankee Stadium could probably be back in use for the All-Star Break if you’d like to reconsider things.

UPDATE: I forgot to include the link to the Providence Journal.

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While this is not a shock at all, the timing seems poor.   Better to sneak this out there in November.

TicketNews.com (reliable?) says the NYY’s will raise tickers 4% in 2010.

I’m wondering if this is a made up story to get people to visit their ticket website…so no link from me, you’ll need to google yourself.

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As I’ve been saying……now said by Wallace Matthews in Newsday.

..it makes you wonder if, when the Yankees moved across the street, they left more than just an old ballpark behind.

The old Stadium was a vibrant, rowdy, sometimes dangerous but always living place where baseball was the primary language spoken, Here, it seems sterile, corporate and frighteningly devoid of buzz. And if you can’t feel the buzz during the honeymoon, when will you feel it?

It doesn’t bode well for the rest of the season, because if you’re not feeling the mojo now, you probably never will. Sure, the place will sell out when the Red Sox or Mets are in the house, but for the first time in many years, get used to the place being half-full, or if the Yankees ever fall out of contention, a lot less than that.

You know, they probably could get Old Yankee Stadium back in shape within a month.  I don’t suppose the Yankees want to move back home after the All-Star break?   Just sayin’

Let’s ask the Yankees fans.  I know it will never happen…but would you rather they move back?

Read Newsday’s article here.

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I had mentioned Suzyn and Sterling saying how cold it was at Yankee…and it wasn’t cold where I was.   Comments from you guys:

Subway Squawkers has left a new comment on your post “The Cold, Foggy and Quiet New Yankee Stadium“:

I was at the game last night, and the weather was fine. A little misty, but I definitely wasn’t cold. The crowd noise was good in my section, but that’s only one part of the park. And the rich people’s seats were 2/3s empty.

I agree with your assessment of the ramps looking like an NYC high school, though! I wrote about it today:

http://subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-thoughts-on-new-yankee-stadium.html 

DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Freezing Tonight At Yankee Stadium?“: 

My weather bug says 58 degrees in northern NJ. it must be the wind inside the stadium. Of course, John Sterling couldn’t call a game with his eyes open, so why trust him with a weather report? 

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