View Full Version : Farewell to Yankee Stadium
SteveR
09-21-2008, 03:14 PM
Tonight is the final game at Yankee Stadium. There will be a 90 minute history of The House that Ruth Built on YES at 430, followed by a two hour live farewell, then the game at 815 on ESPN. ESPN is also running a tribute show on right now.
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 03:17 PM
ESPN is running live right up to the game (and the game itself).
NastyEllEssWon
09-21-2008, 03:29 PM
screw yankee stadium. they blew up my vet.:moon:
baddest434
09-21-2008, 03:55 PM
whats the plan for this old historical building? demolition? that would be sad.
RIP yankee stadium and the yankees season :lol:
NJSPEEDER
09-21-2008, 03:58 PM
The old stadium is being knocked down to become parking for the new stadium.
sweetbmxrider
09-21-2008, 05:33 PM
bye yankee stadium. that place was great
NJSPEEDER
09-21-2008, 05:42 PM
screw yankee stadium. they blew up my vet.:moon:
The vet was a cookie cutter dump of a stadium and no one who ever called it home won a championship anyway. :moon:
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 05:56 PM
I took my 7 year old for the first time June 5th. Played hookey from work/school. It was a surprise, and we had a blast! He just came running outside "Dad, today is the last game and it's on TV, get in here!". I'm so proud...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/SIBLY/Kids/Yankee%20Game%206-5-08/th_IMG_5186s.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/SIBLY/Kids/Yankee%20Game%206-5-08/IMG_5186s.jpg)
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NastyEllEssWon
09-21-2008, 06:09 PM
yankees never earned a championship in their entire tenure.
anyone can just spend infinite amounts of money and win.
the only difference now is that other teams now spend the
same amount ny has and now theyre garbage.
:moon:
fyi Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose won the WORLD SERIES in 1980 against the royals. so dont tell me the vet never hoisted a championship flag
NJSPEEDER
09-21-2008, 06:54 PM
Oh, I forgot that one World Series that the Sillies managed to not choke in. lol
Philadelphia should change from the "City of brotherly love" to a choking noise, cause that is what their teams always do.
NastyEllEssWon
09-21-2008, 07:13 PM
well now that the yankees are getting outspent or equaled its your turn losing for years to come.
dont make me have to mention the yankees of the 80s and early 90s. cough cough don mattingly cough cough
NJSPEEDER
09-21-2008, 07:17 PM
What can you say about Mattingly? Regarded for years as one of the hardest working players in the game and has become a great batting coach. Not a showman or ever one to put on flamboyant displays, he simply went out and did his job.
He never got his ring as a player, the season he would most likely have was cut short by the players strike. He retired and the Yankees won it all the following year. He missed out and it is a shame, but he is a Hall of Famer none the less.
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 07:26 PM
Man, that pre-game was something else.
NJSPEEDER
09-21-2008, 07:29 PM
Yeah, I can't believe that is the last time we will hear the line up echo through the old building. I really wanted to go, but the 150+ that bad seats were going for was too much for me.
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 07:32 PM
And Bob Sheppard came back. I don't think he's done a game all year.
A couple very touching moments. The look on the faces of Bobby Murcer's wife & kids as the crowd wildy chanted "Bob-by Mur-cer" was just too much.
NJSPEEDER
09-21-2008, 08:02 PM
I like the idea that Jeter had Sheppard record his coming to bat announcement so that he will always get introduced that way. A lot of people don't realize how much history and what an important part of Yankees history he is.
79CamaroDiva
09-21-2008, 08:02 PM
:( I'm really upset we never got to get there this year. I've never been there, Steve's a big fan, we definitely should have tried harder to go. Kind of depressing.
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 08:06 PM
I like the idea that Jeter had Sheppard record his coming to bat announcement so that he will always get introduced that way. A lot of people don't realize how much history and what an important part of Yankees history he is.
IIRC, Sheppard started in 1951 - last year for #5, 1st year for #7.
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 08:08 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/SIBLY/Yankees/2008-06-05/IMG_5198Medium.jpg
BonzoHansen
09-21-2008, 08:34 PM
The gods....#4, #3, #5, #7, #8
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The Captain, #15
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meghan was there, i was at work
well now that the yankees are getting outspent or equaled its your turn losing for years to come.
dont make me have to mention the yankees of the 80s and early 90s. cough cough don mattingly cough cough
in this age of profit sharing, your argument dosent have a leg to stand on
LS1Hawk
09-22-2008, 05:59 AM
well now that the yankees are getting outspent or equaled its your turn losing for years to come.
dont make me have to mention the yankees of the 80s and early 90s. cough cough don mattingly cough cough
in this age of profit sharing, your argument dosent have a leg to stand on
To add to that, if you look at the championship teams from 98 - 00, there was no A-Rod or Giambi with a huge contract on the team. Jeter didn't even have his big contract then. It was after that for a few years that the Yankees really started to spend the money. And in the 50s and 60s, players made s**t. Most of them had to take side jobs in the summer.
alamantia
09-22-2008, 06:11 AM
i wish they let us onto the field afterwards
BonzoHansen
09-22-2008, 08:22 AM
i wish they let us onto the field afterwards
They took fans on the field pre-game. Did you go?
alamantia
09-22-2008, 05:18 PM
They took fans on the field pre-game. Did you go?
i went but not on the field
SteveR
09-22-2008, 05:19 PM
i went but not on the field
Thats awesome man. That was a great game to go to. How great was it to see Bernie again :D
NastyEllEssWon
09-22-2008, 05:40 PM
it actually makes sense now though. cause in the age of profit sharing now other ball clubs that had no money to spend on big names now do.
i despise the yankees with everything inside of me. BURN YANKEE STADIUM BURN! id go watch the demolition of Yankee Stadium cheering it on with a phillies jersey with a beer in my hand.
NJSPEEDER
09-22-2008, 06:58 PM
After reading your commentary in the Patriots thread you just sound like another Philly sports fan sore loser. It isn't about the Yanks specifically or any other team, it is some idiotic belief that any team that wins is cheating or doing something underhanded.
Was it cheating when the Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams gave up another one of his patented, tape measure home runs and cost the Phillies the series?
alamantia
09-22-2008, 07:36 PM
Thats awesome man. That was a great game to go to. How great was it to see Bernie again :D
i couldnt see him, i was 4 rows from the top in section 19
After reading your commentary in the Patriots thread you just sound like another Philly sports fan sore loser. It isn't about the Yanks specifically or any other team, it is some idiotic belief that any team that wins is cheating or doing something underhanded.
Was it cheating when the Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams gave up another one of his patented, tape measure home runs and cost the Phillies the series?
gary carter is a pimp
NastyEllEssWon
09-23-2008, 03:05 AM
joe carter
never forget that name :-x
cdubbzz
09-24-2008, 07:51 PM
The old stadium is being knocked down to become parking for the new stadium.
Not true.
The old Yankee Stadium will be converted into a park with trees etc and will house multiple ball fields for kids. Certain parts will be torn down (stands) but the Stadium will still remain. Truth is the Yankee Organization doubts the new Stadium will be fully functional by opening day of next year and plan to keep the back end of the old stadium active to support the new one....
SteveR
09-24-2008, 08:38 PM
Not true.
The old Yankee Stadium will be converted into a park with trees etc and will house multiple ball fields for kids. Certain parts will be torn down (stands) but the Stadium will still remain. Truth is the Yankee Organization doubts the new Stadium will be fully functional by opening day of next year and plan to keep the back end of the old stadium active to support the new one....
Where did you read that? I heard that as part of the agreement with the city, the Yankees have to knock the old stadium down and build parks and such like you said on the land and turn it over to the city, leaving only a plaque where home plate was. The Yankees also have to pay to build a new train station for the new stadium.
BonzoHansen
09-24-2008, 08:57 PM
http://www.amny.com/sports/baseball/ny-spystad225853348sep22,0,7834569.story
From Newsday
Old Yankee Stadium will come down slowly
BY ANTHONY RIEBER | anthony.rieber@newsday.com
September 22, 2008
By the time the Yankees open new Yankee Stadium on April 16, 2009, the current Yankee Stadium won't be forgotten.
It won't be gone, either.
The current Yankee Stadium will be demolished relatively slowly, with the main structure still standing well into the 2009 season, according to Yankees executives who have been briefed on the demolition plan but requested anonymity because talks with the city are still ongoing. New York City owns both Yankee Stadiums.
When will the first brick be removed from The House That Ruth Built? Probably not until next March, when the Bronx Bombers are in spring training and the finishing touches are being put on the new Yankee Stadium.
"We're talking with the city about that and we hope to have a resolution this week," one Yankees executive said last night.
The Yankees are scheduled to have a closing ceremony for the Stadium in early November with details to be announced. The team's front-office staff is scheduled to vacate the Stadium in late February/early March to move to the $1.3-billion ballpark being built across the street.
Selective demolition will take place in the spring. Items that are to be sold by the city - including the famed giant bat, a popular meeting place, and the stadium's seats - will be removed during this period. The city has yet to choose a company to handle the work. Nor have sale details been released to hungry memorabilia collectors.
The actual ballpark structure will not be torn down until 2010. It will not be imploded, as other ballparks have been, because the area around the ballpark is residential.
After the ballpark is gone, the city will build a $23-million park with softball, baseball and Little League fields. The parkland is not expected to be completed until 2011.
The timetable of the demolition plan was first reported Sunday by the New York Post.
NastyEllEssWon
09-24-2008, 09:03 PM
NO FAIR
they leveled my vette and they tear this down brick by brick.
BAH HUMBUG LETS TORCH THE EFFER!
wahhhhhhhhhh the only character the vet had was dykestras spit stain
NastyEllEssWon
09-24-2008, 09:33 PM
dykstra ftw
i watched fireworks from his spit stain one year
NastyEllEssWon
09-24-2008, 09:42 PM
shilling ftw
SteveR
09-24-2008, 10:34 PM
dykstra ftw
Dykstra was from NY :razz:
NastyEllEssWon
09-24-2008, 10:53 PM
Dykstra was from NY :razz:
yeah but we stole him from the mets. he never ruined his career by playing for the stankees.
SteveR
09-24-2008, 11:09 PM
yeah but we stole him from the mets. he never ruined his career by playing for the stankees.
No, but you Philly people almost killed him by smashing his car :razz:
NastyEllEssWon
09-24-2008, 11:39 PM
thats what happens when you dont deliver championships. McNabbs next :evil:
SteveR
09-24-2008, 11:44 PM
thats what happens when you dont deliver championships. McNabbs next :evil:
:lol:
NJSPEEDER
09-25-2008, 08:18 AM
thats what happens when you dont deliver championships. McNabbs next :evil:
If that was true there would be no living Eagles and the about 50 Phillies that played one that one magical season left alive. lol
Face it, Philadelphia has a lot going for it, winning championships just isn't one of them. Hell, even a horse closely associated with the city gagged on his oats when it was crunch time in the triple crown. lol
-Tim
BTW Read in one of the papers yesterday that more Hall of Famers played in Yankee Stadium than have played against any other franchise in history.
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