NYY Spring Training Thread

[BoSox21]

It was that damn Adam Stern!

 

That's Mr. Rule V Adam Stern

[diony]

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o74/Di0ny/joba.jpg

 

Nice clothes Joba.

[TheKilo]

Maybe he was drunk this morning. Wouldn't be the first time.

[26 to 6]

Not really ST related, but I wanted to share a disturbing picture.

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/Sb_Jb2XNdhI/AAAAAAAAF6Q/x-zfc7Q4b70/s1600/4047782.JPG

 

They're tearing up the field at the old ballpark. such a shame.

[BoSox21]

Not really ST related, but I wanted to share a disturbing picture.

 

Speaking of disturbing pictures...

 

http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/BDD_AR_details_31709.jpg

[rician blast]

Not really ST related, but I wanted to share a disturbing picture.

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/Sb_Jb2XNdhI/AAAAAAAAF6Q/x-zfc7Q4b70/s1600/4047782.JPG

 

They're tearing up the field at the old ballpark. such a shame.

 

Uhhh...right.

 

That entire toilet shoulda been flushed 2 decades ago.

[jacksonianmarch]

how bout the Toilet at Fenway?

[rician blast]

how bout the Toilet at Fenway?

 

 

I'm on record saying that Fenway should be dismantled and if they want someone to flip the switch on its implosion, I'll do it with s smile on my face.

 

I don't wax poetic too often about these parks...Fenway was not designed for todays-sized fans, and you feel it when you are there...and if you're unlucky enough to be in the RF grandstand, have fun looking out at CF.

 

Yankee Stadium, on the other hand, is just a filthy vile place to watch a game...and after the game you take your life into your hands as you venture into the 'hood. SHoulda gone to Jersey a long time ago.

[jacksonianmarch]

fair enough. I have been to Fenway a few times. I played there and I got to go into the underbelly of it. It really is a historic place, but it was in bad shape back then. Its insides were worse than the local municipal stadium where I grew up.

[BoSox21]

I've only been to Fenway twice so I appreciate the entire lore of it but if I went to it 20-30 times a year, yea I'd be clamoring to take it down

[26 to 6]

Yankee Stadium, on the other hand, is just a filthy vile place to watch a game...and after the game you take your life into your hands as you venture into the 'hood. SHoulda gone to Jersey a long time ago.

Oh god, another one complaining about the "hood" surrounding 161st and River Avenue. Whatever, it's not the greatest neighborhood i nthe city, but it's not that awful. And besides, the blocks surrounding the Stadium are infected with police presence and public safety, so no one has any need to worry. The subway runs right along the outside of the Stadium, and all of the parking lots and garages are in a close proximity, it's not like people are forced to venture out into the projects and risk having a cap popped in their ass.

 

Some people just ign'ant

[BoSox21]

Are there any bad neighborhoods in Manhattan? I know there are some if you venture into the other boroughs but last time I went to NYC, it didn't even seem like Harlem was that bad of an area

[26 to 6]

Anyway, here's Gate 6 beautifully lit up.

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScJLg8hbL6I/AAAAAAAAF_Q/KRFzEDolsf8/s400/3365741752_dae9723428_b.jpg

 

Here's a shot of one of the video boards.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScJLMnr3tXI/AAAAAAAAF-o/nLwkvbEsWLE/s400/3364912435_e51bedc58d_b.jpg

 

Overhead daylight

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScJJmJGvuTI/AAAAAAAAF-g/jcdu113fo9Y/s400/4061215.jpg

 

Overhead beside the old Stadium

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScJJl_GOGxI/AAAAAAAAF-Q/aLxycykHOmw/s400/4061216.jpg

 

Signage

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScJLNiO2oGI/AAAAAAAAF_A/B2LGEauybOI/s400/3365741734_9a80e0a94d_b.jpg

 

now idk if anyone's noticed over the past few weeks, but as you can see there are those Pepsi and Delta signs, which at first I found interesting. For years, since we Yankee fans lost the privilege of having RC Cola served as the official Cola at the Stadium, we've been graced with the presence of Coca-Cola products, even up until last season. It looks like Pepsi is replacing Coke at the big ballpark in the Bronx. My guess is that the Coke deal was through Centerplate, the concessionaire serving the ballpark. As some of you probably know the Yankees ownership and jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys have ventured into that business and formed Legends Hospitality, a new concessionaire service that will be featured at both the new Stadiums of the Yankees and Cowboys, as well as several Minor League parks (I know PNC Field in Scranton is one of them), and eventually into other big league sports stadiums. I guess LH is hooked up with the Pepsi people now. Also Continental has been the official airline of the Yankees for quite some time, and it appears Delta now holds that "honor."

 

idk, I know it's nothing serious or relevant, just the things I notice. The advertising industry has always intrigued me for some reason. And I truthfully don't give a s*** about what soda's they have at the Stadium, I don't even drink Soda.

 

Here's a shot of the Melk-man scoring on a Ramiro Pena single in Tuesday's game against Pittsburgh.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090318/capt.5b0573e06d4d40e48f6bc61d66c58897.pirates_yankees_spring_baseball_flkw119.jpg

 

Here's a shot of Teixeira's double in that same game.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090318/capt.f64dbf030e994c108dd67769d702e5b4.pirates_yankees_spring_baseball_flkw110.jpg

 

Here's a shot of A.J. in Saturday's game against Houston, in which he was spectacular.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090314/capt.cdf6fb994d0949e788bc38cf7a31b118.astros_yankees_spring_baseball_flkw106.jpg

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Are there any bad neighborhoods in Manhattan? I know there are some if you venture into the other boroughs but last time I went to NYC' date=' it didn't even seem like Harlem was that bad of an area[/quote']

Sure there's bad areas in Manhattan, there's bad areas anywhere you go, especially in the City of New York. All of the boroughs have their good and bad, but a lot of the bad is exaggerated due to stereotypes brought upon during the crime-ridden 80's and 90's. Giuliani when he was a mayor did a great job of cleaning up the streets and making the city for the most part a safe place. Sure, sometimes bad things happen throughout the city, but that usually can be attributed to the people involved in these incidents. There's roughly over 9 million people living in the city, plus millions others visiting at any given time. Not all of them are good, upstanding people. Just the law of large numbers.

[rician blast]

Oh god' date=' another one complaining about the "hood" surrounding 161st and River Avenue. Whatever, [b']it's not the greatest neighborhood i nthe city[/b], but it's not that awful. And besides, the blocks surrounding the Stadium are infected with police presence and public safety, so no one has any need to worry. The subway runs right along the outside of the Stadium, and all of the parking lots and garages are in a close proximity, it's not like people are forced to venture out into the projects and risk having a cap popped in their ass.

 

Some people just ign'ant

 

Not the greatest is an understatement. Of course they don't build stadiums in "Fort Apache the Bronx", but just because it isn't the worst doesn't make it good.

 

Compare that to the Fenway neighborhood, where you could not know where you're going and still be relatively comfortable.

 

And ing'ant is defending the s*** hole known as Yankee Stadium.

[ORS]

Seriously, I'm from DC and you wouldn't have found me extolling the virtues of the Anacostia area around RFK. That place is like The Wire, and this is coming from someone who went to a few warehouse parties in west Baltimore and has been to where The Wire took place.

[a700hitter]

Walking around Fenway alone at night when there is no game is much different than walking around Yankee Stadium, which would be quite fear inducing.

[BoSox21]

now idk if anyone's noticed over the past few weeks, but as you can see there are those Pepsi and Delta signs, which at first I found interesting. For years, since we Yankee fans lost the privilege of having RC Cola served as the official Cola at the Stadium, we've been graced with the presence of Coca-Cola products, even up until last season. It looks like Pepsi is replacing Coke at the big ballpark in the Bronx. My guess is that the Coke deal was through Centerplate, the concessionaire serving the ballpark. As some of you probably know the Yankees ownership and jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys have ventured into that business and formed Legends Hospitality, a new concessionaire service that will be featured at both the new Stadiums of the Yankees and Cowboys, as well as several Minor League parks (I know PNC Field in Scranton is one of them), and eventually into other big league sports stadiums. I guess LH is hooked up with the Pepsi people now. Also Continental has been the official airline of the Yankees for quite some time, and it appears Delta now holds that "honor."

 

There's 45 seconds of my life I'll never get back...

 

Sure there's bad areas in Manhattan' date=' there's bad areas anywhere you go, especially in the City of New York. All of the boroughs have their good and bad, but a lot of the bad is exaggerated due to stereotypes brought upon during the crime-ridden 80's and 90's. Giuliani when he was a mayor did a great job of cleaning up the streets and making the city for the most part a safe place. Sure, sometimes bad things happen throughout the city, but that usually can be attributed to the people involved in these incidents. There's roughly over 9 million people living in the city, plus millions others visiting at any given time. Not all of them are good, upstanding people. Just the law of large numbers.[/quote']

 

Obviously. I mean, walking back from Times Square to my bus on New Years Eve two years ago, about a thousand of us saw a guy climb up a fire escape and smash a window to get into a hotel room in Hell's Kitchen. I'm talking about places you wouldn't walk alone once the sun sets.

[David Bowie]

do people still care about the yankees? They haven't won in nearly a decade.

[26 to 6]

The Yankees today acquired Chris Stewart from the White Sox for a ptbn. Stewart, a catcher, appeared in 1 game for the Yankees last year after signing a Minor League deal after Spring Training. He spent the entire season in the Yankee system. This offseason he signed with the White Sox, the team that originally drafted him who he had been with his entire career prior to last year.

 

Anyway.....he's back.

[David Bowie]

good, maybe he'll lead them to #27

[26 to 6]

Hey mayyyyyyyyyybeeee. That'd be nice.

[26 to 6]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScehQRkuMyI/AAAAAAAAGJw/BCbLdvrRINw/s1600/4079159.jpg

 

That right there is one very disturbing picture.

[a700hitter]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fsh7GWfK4f0/ScehQRkuMyI/AAAAAAAAGJw/BCbLdvrRINw/s1600/4079159.jpg

 

That right there is one very disturbing picture.

Tearing down a field that is 32 years old is disturbing? My house on LI is older. The original stadium -- the House that Ruth Built---has been gone since 1973. That's where Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Dimaggio and the other All Time greats played. Once they tore down the original stadium, the majesty was gone. If you attended a game in the original stadium, you know what I mean. In the '76-08 stadium, there were no monuments in CF with a CF more than 460 feet from home plate and a left center field 457 feet away. Only a bona fide star power hitter could hit the ball out to Left Center Field. The stadium from 76- 08 was a pathetic replacement of the original. What's disturbing is that people treat that crappy place like it was the real Yankee Stadium.

[26 to 6]

Whatever you say man. Just because you lack fond memories there doesn't mean you have to be sour and spoil them for the rest of us. Sure, it's not the original. but it's the only Yankee Stadium I know. Certainly I wish I lived in a time where I could have seen a game in the pre-renovated stadium, but that's not the case. Does that mean my fond memories over the past 20 years of my life visiting that ballpark have no merit or value? f*** off man, so what if your house is older. Your house can be brand new, if it got torn down it would be a sad and disturbing sight for you. This place, whether or not it does a good job of mimicking the original, is home to many of my fondest memories in life, and I don't need you to critique or tell me I'm not entitled to these feelings simply because of my age. Either way you look at it, those grounds were home to the Ruth's, Gehrig's, Huggins's, DiMaggio's, Ruffing's, Ford's, Berra's, Dickey's Mantle's, Reggie's, Munson's, Mattingly's, and Jeter's of the world despite the surrounding image of a pre-'73 structure, or a post-'76 structure. yeah, it's not exactly the same, fine. But a lot of the old ballpark still existed in the renovated version. The shell, a lot of the rooms, the ground itself. So just because you're miserable doesn't mean you have to infect all of us with that misery, especially when it comes to something like this. When the day comes that Fenway is torn down I would never think of devaluing the feelings of grieving Sox fans. s***, the same can be said for Mets fans and Shea, Seattle fans and the Kingdome, Giants fans and Candlestick, Pittsburgh fans and Three Rivers, etc. Hell, I know none of those places are especially appealing or special to me, but if that's where someone has fond memories of watching their team play for so long who am I to say otherwise.

 

I do truly feel bad for you.

[David Bowie]

I thought it was like 109 years old.

[David Bowie]

Tearing down a field that is 32 years old is disturbing? My house on LI is older. The original stadium -- the House that Ruth Built---has been gone since 1973. That's where Ruth' date=' Gehrig, Mantle, Dimaggio and the other All Time greats played. Once they tore down the original stadium, the majesty was gone. If you attended a game in the original stadium, you know what I mean. In the '76-08 stadium, there were no monuments in CF with a CF more than 460 feet from home plate and a left center field 457 feet away. Only a bona fide star power hitter could hit the ball out to Left Center Field. The stadium from 76- 08 was a pathetic replacement of the original. What's disturbing is that people treat that crappy place like it was the real Yankee Stadium.[/quote']

 

yeah, well for some reason they decided it wasn't safe to have obstacles in the outfield. I'm not sure why. Plus we all know homeruns are what sell, so a 457 foot center frield didn't really make sense either.

 

I'm not sure what you don't understand about why they did what they did.

[26 to 6]

yeah, well for some reason they decided it wasn't safe to have obstacles in the outfield. I'm not sure why. Plus we all know homeruns are what sell, so a 457 foot center frield didn't really make sense either.

 

I'm not sure what you don't understand about why they did what they did.

He's just old and slow, that's all. He thinks it's a good idea to have people running through monuments to field balls.

[David Bowie]

It appears to me that he's bitter of something. Perhaps he was raped in his childhood in the new yankee stadium.

[a700hitter]

Whatever you say man. Just because you lack fond memories there doesn't mean you have to be sour and spoil them for the rest of us. Sure, it's not the original. but it's the only Yankee Stadium I know. Certainly I wish I lived in a time where I could have seen a game in the pre-renovated stadium, but that's not the case. Does that mean my fond memories over the past 20 years of my life visiting that ballpark have no merit or value? f*** off man, so what if your house is older. Your house can be brand new, if it got torn down it would be a sad and disturbing sight for you. This place, whether or not it does a good job of mimicking the original, is home to many of my fondest memories in life, and I don't need you to critique or tell me I'm not entitled to these feelings simply because of my age. Either way you look at it, those grounds were home to the Ruth's, Gehrig's, Huggins's, DiMaggio's, Ruffing's, Ford's, Berra's, Dickey's Mantle's, Reggie's, Munson's, Mattingly's, and Jeter's of the world despite the surrounding image of a pre-'73 structure, or a post-'76 structure. yeah, it's not exactly the same, fine. But a lot of the old ballpark still existed in the renovated version. The shell, a lot of the rooms, the ground itself. So just because you're miserable doesn't mean you have to infect all of us with that misery, especially when it comes to something like this. When the day comes that Fenway is torn down I would never think of devaluing the feelings of grieving Sox fans. s***, the same can be said for Mets fans and Shea, Seattle fans and the Kingdome, Giants fans and Candlestick, Pittsburgh fans and Three Rivers, etc. Hell, I know none of those places are especially appealing or special to me, but if that's where someone has fond memories of watching their team play for so long who am I to say otherwise.

 

I do truly feel bad for you.

You are entitled to feel however you want, but so am I. The '76-08 stadium was a poor excuse as a replacement of the original Stadium. Unlike the original Stadium, the '76- '08 Stadium is a place where I have some of my fondest baseball memories. Am I sorry to see it go? No, it was an architecturally ugly stadium in a blighted neighborhood, so I don't give a damn. The original stadium was majestic. The '76-'08 stadium resembled a bedpan. I don't know why my feelings and opinion would invalidate your feelings and opinion. The '76- '08 field was completely different from the original stadium except for some superstructure. The field itself was also replaced-- several times.