Sunday, September 21, 2008

Yankee Stadium Closes It's Doors....


Say Goodbye to a Legend....
After tonight's game against the Baltimore Orioles, Yankee Stadium will close it's doors forever, when the new Yankee stadium will open in 2009. We Yankee fans were hoping that the last game would be a playoff game, but management decided to spend the money on the new stadium, instead of starting pitching, but I digress.....
If you never went there, you missed visiting a magical place. Few places in sports have 85 years of memories on it's turf, and no other place had Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Jackson and Jeter play there..
It has been a long time since I went there, but I remember my first game pretty vividly. I was eight years old, and I went in 1976 with my neighbors (Dad worked at the race track n weekends). It was a doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers. They pounded them in both games, and I got to see Hank Aaron play in his final season -he flew out.
You had to go to the game by subway... You spend two hours underground, and when you finally get out of the subway tunnel, there it is - the Taj Mahal of baseball sitting right in front of you. For a little kid, it's pretty amazing.....
ESPN has a whole day of programming to celebrate the last day of Yankee Stadium. Guess when you don't have Sunday football, you have an open slot for such things. Cool.... Will I go to the new stadium? Probably, but it won't be the same... There will be other memories, but it won't be the ones I have: Chris Chambliss walk-off HR in the '76 Championship, Reggie Jackson's 3 World Series HR's, Thurman Munson's memorial, The Pine Tar Game, Tino Martinez and Derek Jeter's Mr. November and Scott Brosius the next night in 2001, and "Aaron Fucking" Boone in 2003.....
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now you know I aint a Yankee fan but I hate to see it close. I have been by the new and old stadium to check it out in the last few weeks

Thoroughbred 401k said...

I was expecting you to title the post "Not a Yankee Fan Moye'...


You're a Cardinals fan, right?

Anonymous said...

and don't forget the time that George Costanza skipped on his job and his car was covered with flyers and pigeon shit and Jerry and Kramer came to rescue the car but the yankees had already put out a missing persons bulletin, that was classic.

Anonymous said...

and don't forget the time that George Costanza skipped on his job and his car was covered with flyers and pigeon shit and Jerry and Kramer came to rescue the car but the yankees had already put out a missing persons bulletin, that was classic.

Thoroughbred 401k said...

The Yanks haven't been the same since they traded George to the Astros for all that Tyler Chicken.

Anonymous said...

The New York Yankees are absolutely classless. Not one mention of Joe Torre last night. No class, absolutely zero!

Thoroughbred 401k said...

Yeah, not mentioning Torre was a bad move. He deserved something last night.

Anonymous said...

screw the yankees

Thoroughbred 401k said...

That's mean...