Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
There are six games left at Yankee Stadium including tonight's. Last night Alfredo Aceves was the story. Tomorrow night it will be Phil Hughes, but tonight, with Andy Pettitte pitching what amounts to a warm-up for the Stadium's finale on Sunday, there is nothing else. Yes the White Sox are in a tight race for the AL Central. Yes, Robinson Cano is back in the lineup after his disciplinary benching. Yes, Brett Gardner is finally getting another look in center field and making his fourth-straight start there tonight, but with the Yankees on the brink of elimination (nine games out with 12 left to play), I think we're finally at the point tonight at which the Stadium will become the primary focus.
The Yankees have a record of 4,128-2,429 at Yankee stadium. That's a .630 winning percentage. They have to win four of these last six games to avoid dropping below .630. That's utterly meaningless, but maybe it's something for them to play for. For a variety of reasons, I'm going to find these last six games very hard to watch, and the six season-concluding road games that follow them will be even harder.
It kills me. Because I think about next season maybe, or whenever they next have some glorious post-season moment, and I know that it will be at the new place, which won't have the ghosts of the old place. And I guess, really, who cares? They are just buildings. But, then again these are just games, right? Not quite.
As far as the remainder of the season goes, I pretty much don't watch anymore anyway. It annoys me when they stink and now it annoys me when they do well, since it's pointless.
and we can finally stop hearing about that quasi-important record .... sheesh
Er...shouldn't he have learned that already? Sometime in his four years as a minor league player and three years as a college player?
I think we might be seeing the end of Andy Pettitte.
[8 My Dad refuses to call the place now being built the "New" Stadium. He says that's where the team plays now, and so he is not that torn up.
I am though. As much as I agree with the Hawk - they should have rebuilt on the old lot AFAIC - they didn't, and so the place I watched hundreds of games on TV is going to be gone. Its going to take a long time to see that many games in the new place.
I'm not so upset the Stadium will close with a play out the string game--heck, that's what the pre-renovation Stadium had for its swan song. Rather, I don't want to see all the manufactured nostalgia and theatricality. If they just played the game--with no speeches or ceremonies, no prime time, no ESPN special broadcast, no swirling music or retrospectives--I would tune in. Otherwise, no way.
I go to a game or three every year. I went to two this summer. Good games, exciting, but overall just typical ball games. That's the way I want to remember the Stadium.
15 not exactly WilliamNYY23 but keep at it sir!
Bos-Tampa 1-1 in the 8th...
Oh - since they already demolished the original, rebuilding on the same spot would at least guarantee the same tract of land, which is essentially all that's left from the original. (The ground is gone due to all the times the dirt has been changed over the years.)
I toyed with trying to get tix for the last game, but I'm not a season ticket holder and my efforts were half-hearted.
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