For my buddy Glencar.....It's been great knowing the place.  Only 13 more games left...As I write this, Sox are now up 11-2, in their next to last game at the Stadium...The Sox really should have closed the place out at the end of the year, instead of the Royals of all people.  Glenny, really, I've been there over eight times, I did like the place.   Geez, does Joe Girardi look tense, will he usher in the new place?....Will Liza sing often?..........Developing...as they say....

big time lost tonight.  things look grim for the bommers.

:wtf1

Gonna be sad to see it go.

http://umpbump.com/press/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/yankee-stadium.jpg

the Yankes are like Notre Dame......an old team that no one under 50 roots for or can even remember when they did not suck...out with the old....

Thanks Nelly but I wish the vermin had stayed off this thread! I was just telling a good friend last night how it's really a bit of sacrilege to tear down the House That Ruth Built. It was only renovated 3 decades back & it really still was a beautiful place. I'm not able to go to any games but I am going to the last weekend at Shea which they're also tearing down. I was actually at Fenway back in the 80's (before all that faggy "Red Sox Nation BS!) & it would have been a shame to do a teardown on that too. Or Wrigley. Or MSG...

I didn't list every single old stadium, you asshole.

I'd be bitter too if I were evil enough to root for the Spankees.

lotsajizz wrote on Aug 28^th, 2008 at 1:31pm:

I'd be bitter too if I were evil enough to root for the Spankees.

hello sean!

meet your new overlord:

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/03/10/K4HXcGcU.jpg

twins edge the sox for the wild card!

Bucky, how do you have time to post?
I thought you were fighting couch poster crime?

Makes me remember those great days at Jarry Parc in Montreal!...The House That Staub Ate

hey...they pulled it off this afternoon,  thats good........right?

damon and giambi are this teams saviors as far as i'm concerned.


:wtf1

A-rod sure ain't! Today's Post gave him the razz!

wrote on Aug 28^th, 2008 at 12:29pm:

I was just telling a good friend last night how it's really a bit of sacrilege to tear down the House That Ruth Built. It was only renovated 3 decades back & it really still was a beautiful place. I'm not able to go to any games but I am going to the last weekend at Shea which they're also tearing down. I was actually at Fenway back in the 80's (before all that faggy "Red Sox Nation BS!) & it would have been a shame to do a teardown on that too. Or Wrigley. Or MSG...

Yeah, Yankee Stadium coming down just doesn't seem right.

Credit Red Sox ownership for polishing up that jewel rather than forsaking it for another coupla thousand seats.

Shea, on the other hand, is a generic 60's multi-purpose dump that needed to go.

Went to MSG recently and was surprised at how run down it's gotten.
That Cablevision funded renovation can't happen soon enough...  

I used to get a throb seeing it as I drove in by the GWB.

andrews27 wrote on Aug 28^th, 2008 at 7:25pm:

I used to get a throb seeing it as I drove in by the GWB.

Same here when taking the A train past 155th.

Starbuck wrote on Aug 28^th, 2008 at 1:38pm:

lotsajizz wrote on Aug 28th, 2008 at 1:31pm: I'd be bitter too if I were evil enough to root for the Spankees. hello sean! meet your new overlord: http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2008/03/10/K4HXcGcU.jpg twins edge the sox for the wild card!

You huffing Liquid Paper again, Bucky?  Read it and weep....

Boston       77 56  .579    -
Minnesota  75 58  .564   2.0

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio,
Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson.
Jotting Joe has left and gone away,
Hey hey hey.

Will they make another stadium or the Yankees got to move to another place??

this is funny.

i just wrote a whole blog about this on my new baseball blog.  i figured this would be the best way to kick things off.

http://wholenewgame.blogspot.com/

Ju, I think the new one's right across the street, or at least also in the Bronx.

What is going in its place.

even as a lifelong yankee hater, i cannot help but feel a tremendous sense of loss at the end of this stadium. the thought that it will be reduced to a parking garage makes me feel a bit....

:pukey

i regret never having had the chance to see it. more history there than in any other venue in sports history...by far...nothing even close.

wrigley and fenway....the only two left standing....

You are late to this topic...

http://rocksoff.org/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1219888971

The place had a lot of history, but it was a dump.  Big Dump.

robpop wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2008 at 3:32pm:

The place had a lot of history, but it was a dump.  Big Dump.

kinda like yo mamma's bathroom?

oh smack! winslow's still got it.

ManzielStud wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2008 at 4:11pm:

robpop wrote on Sep 22nd, 2008 at 3:32pm: The place had a lot of history, but it was a dump.  Big Dump. kinda like yo mamma's bathroom? oh smack! winslow's still got it.

Niggie, lets talk after you win a game.

i watched the closing ceremonies yesterday afternoon and i quite enjoyed it.  i even went as far to buy the daily news newspaper today because they had a very nice 25 page spread about the whole to do.

:pullanolte

Starbuck wrote on Sep 21^st, 2008 at 10:44pm:

wrigley and fenway....the only two left standing....

Fenway is Eternal. God's Chosen Stadium.

" ...  it was a dump.  Big Dump . "


Say no more !!!! :


*** ABRUPT END TO TRANSMISSION !!!! ***

Twins dig long ball, at least for one night
By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports

MINNEAPOLIS – Inside the Minnesota Twins dugout, they figured the roar was for Jason Kubel. His teammates were telling him to take a curtain call after his second home run, and everybody was so busy patting Kubel on the back and slapping his hands that they missed the real reason for the commotion.

Back-to-back home runs for the Twins? That’s like two straight laughs at a Dane Cook show. The Twins don’t hit home runs. They nibble and pick and gnaw. They’ve turned small ball into a verb. And here they were, in the game their manager deemed the most important this season, a game that could’ve shattered their glass slipper, launching balls like they hadn’t all year.

Delmon Young’s homer pre-empted Kubel from doffing his cap and put the Chicago White Sox on notice that the Twins weren’t going down without a fight, not in their own building. The din from Kubel’s homer hadn’t ceded when Young put the exclamation point on the Twins’ 9-3 victory Tuesday to pull them within 1½ games of the White Sox in the AL Central with two remaining in this series at the Metrodome.

“I was in the dugout, giving all the high fives, and I looked up and Delmon had hit one,” Kubel said. “When you hear the crowd, you know.”

Though they weren’t packed to the rafters, 35,225 strong witnessed the Twins’ 50th home win in 76 games. And they saw an offense that somehow scored the fourth-most runs in the major leagues in spite of hitting the second-fewest home runs.

Sure, there were signs of typical Twins baseball: Nick Punto laying down a squeeze bunt that scored a charging Young, and Joe Mauer lacing an opposite-field single before coming home on a Justin Morneau gapper, and three more hits with runners in scoring position, bringing their major-league-best total to 444.

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It’s just that, well, the Twins’ starting lineup combined for 85 home runs – which is exactly as many as Jermaine Dye, Jim Thome and Alexei Ramirez have hit this season. And the White Sox had another 51 in their lineup, plus nearly 100 more on their bench.

“We don’t win by hitting bombs,” Twins outfielder Michael Cuddyer said. “It’s playing the game right. Getting guys over. Doing the little things right. Nine runs is not uncharacteristic. Three home runs is. It was a big game by big players, and we needed it.”

Before the game, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire fielded a question about Kubel’s place in the lineup. He entered the game in a 2-for-18 slump. Cuddyer, an important cog who has spent most of the season on the disabled list, was available. Kubel’s career average against starter Javier Vazquez: .095. Cuddyer’s: .343. Was now the time to switch?


No, Gardenhire growled. Kubel was the Twins’ designated hitter. Maybe he’d even hit one over the baggie in right field.

Prescience isn’t generally Gardenhire’s forte, though he did have the foresight to emphasize the importance of this game, just in case his cache of young players didn’t grasp it. This series is the Twins’ season. They entered the year minus ace Johan Santana, franchise center fielder Torii Hunter and starter Carlos Silva and long shots behind Cleveland and Detroit. No one in their rotation is older than 27. They have gone 10-18 over the last month. The Republican National Convention sent them on the road for two weeks. They haven’t recovered.

Or maybe hadn’t.

“If you’re not motivated to do that, then you shouldn’t be here,” Gardenhire said. “Our guys get pretty pumped up playing at home in front of our crowd. We’re playing the White Sox. All those good things – it should be easy for you. We came out with a lot of enthusiasm.”

Chicago, meanwhile, played the shell-shocked favorite rather well. Leading up to the game, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen called out starter Vazquez for his poor performance in big games, and he proceeded to get shelled for five runs in four innings.


Guillen’s nonchalance before the game – “We’re in first place, man,” he said, “and they’re the ones that should worry about us” – quickly turned into early-stage panic, his history with the Twins flashing before him after every bat crack.

Remember, Guillen nicknamed the 2006 Twins the “piranhas” because of their incessant nibbling at leads, though boll weevils might fit better, as the Twins are pests of the highest order.

How they’ve turned into a run-scoring juggernaut, 810 and counting, symptomatic of their .311 batting average with runners in scoring position, which would be the best in major-league history. It makes the Twins the small kid on the playground who knows jiu-jitsu and can fell the big bully with one strike.

“We scored over 800 runs playing our Twins baseball, bunting and stealing and all that kind of stuff,” Morneau said. “It’s nice to hit those homers and put the game out of reach, but we can’t expect to do that every night.”

No, it was a special evening at the Metrodome, from the homers to the seven great innings from starting pitcher Scott Baker to the cavalcade of overweight security guards trying to chase down an interloper during the ninth inning. The fan popped out of the left-field stands during the ninth inning and spent a good minute outrunning 10 guys in white shirts. He waved his arms and engaged the crowd and even caused a smile to spread across Kubel’s face.

The fight was over. The slipper was intact. And there would be two more to play

Starbuck wrote on Sep 21^st, 2008 at 10:44pm:

even as a lifelong yankee hater, i cannot help but feel a tremendous sense of loss at the end of this stadium. the thought that it will be reduced to a parking garage makes me feel a bit.... :pukey i regret never having had the chance to see it. more history there than in any other venue in sports history...by far...nothing even close. wrigley and fenway....the only two left standing....

You're like a lil girl sometimes! How did you NEVER make it to the hallowed ground??? WTF???