I Can No Longer Call Myself A Yankees Fan...

[T-Bone _]

Tonight is the last series that will ever be played at Yankee Stadium before they tear it down.

[pan!c139]

:sob:

HOW TERRIBLE! Where will they play now?!?!

[T-Bone _]

They're getting a fancy new stadium.

Nevermind the history...

I hope Babe Ruth haunts the new place and the Yankees never win again.

[CatherineM]

I think he's already started. I'm kind of glad that Derek Jeter got the Yankee Stadium hits record. I think he may end up being the last real Yankee.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1659698' date='Sep 19 2008, 08:22 PM']I think he [Jeter] may end up being the last real Yankee.[/quote]

Yep!

[Selah]

What awful news!

[aalpha1989]

It's about time you converted. NYY's are the biggest cheaters of all time.

[icelandic_iceskater]

I wish they didn't have pudge!

random fact: Jeter went to catholic schools K-8.




P.S. why is this in the debate table?

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='icelandic_iceskater' post='1660309' date='Sep 20 2008, 07:53 PM']P.S. why is this in the debate table?[/quote]

I was aiming for the Lame Board and missed?

[Mercy me]

I stayed up late and watched the whole thing. It was really sad. No more will the players round the same base path that Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, the Mick and the others greats did. They will not sit in the same dugout that Casey Stengle, Billy Martin , Joe Torre and the other great managers did. They will not throw from the same mound that Whitey Ford, Don Larson, Ron Guidrey, Catfish Hunter (I admit that I am a Catfish Hunter fan.), Boomer and so many other great pitchers have thrown from. Yankee Stadium is sacred baseball ground and it is now leaving us. The link to history is broken.

As for me this year I root for the Dodgers

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Mercy me' post='1661244' date='Sep 22 2008, 04:22 PM']As for me this year I root for the Dodgers[/quote]

The [s]Brooklyn[/s] Dodgers?

[corban711]

i don't like the yankees now and i never will. but that stadium pretty much sums up all the greatness of the sport. so much happened there! and because they are getting a new stadium they have next years' all star game too! (on a side note...after that, the all star game will be at angel stadium....just 10-15 mins down the street from me! so excited!) unfortunately i never got to see a game played at yankee stadium. i was going to try to go this year but it didn't end up working out.

[Autumn Dusk]

I never would go to the stadium b/c of the anti-abortion chant that the blood runs under yankee stadium.

As much as I know that was a literary device I still can't help but feel relieved that its going down.

[CatherineM]

My dad grew up in NYC and used to have such great Yankee Stadium stories. Our family has been watching Yankee games since they were the Highlanders. My dad was 8 years old when the stadium was built. His best story was going to the game with an uncle when he was 13. His uncle was NYPD, and got him a seat by the Yankee dugout where he was standing. Babe Ruth hit a foul ball that went onto the roof of the dug out, and my dad jumped for it, and ended up falling in the dugout. That was back in the day when players took care of problems like that rather than call security, and his uncle just got him out of there before he got killed. He almost broke his wrist in the fall. He said that dugout was a couple of inches deep in tobacco spit.

[Mercy me]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1662176' date='Sep 23 2008, 09:29 PM']The [s]Brooklyn[/s] Dodgers?[/quote]

Joe Torre.

[White Knight]

I strongly feel like I souldn't be anti-sympathetic, however I feel as if I have got to say good rittens to bad rubbish.


[color="#FF0000"][b] I'm strongly disliking right now any professional sport that cares more about the money than they do about the game or fans, they dont care anymore about what sports are all about, which is to have fun, to show good team work, and how to survive in the real world, unfortunately this has been corrupted by, Drugs, and Overpaid salaries, when that money sould be going to our troops in Iraq, or rebuilding our roads, contributing to fixing healthcare, going to education, investing in the alternative energy, strengthing national defense, building more homes, building more hospitals,etc etc etc.[/b][/color]

[color="#0000FF"][b]Instead these players complain about not getting a two million dollar raise in their annual salary, and they go on strike if they dont get their way.


Sports are suspost to be FUN, not CORRUPT.[/b][/color]


[b][color="#2E8B57"]I dislike where sports these days are going. cheating in sports is another increased statistic in the past 25-50 years.... Steriods are almost are expected now to be taken by majority players, and thats not right.


I'm not a Yankees fan, but what angers me the most about baseball is when they complained about their salaries being cut or not being raised...



Save the Sports industry before its too late.[/color][/b]



[size=4][b][color="#FF0000"]I'm just furious how downhill everything has become in Professional Sports, and College is going downhill too, ya they dont get paid, but they certianly take it out of context, which is even worse.



One last thing.

Why spend all that money on a sports stadium, when it could be going to something else![/color][/b][/size]

Edited October 6, 2008 by White Knight

[knightec]

We can all look at it this way. This year Alex Rodriguez has a legitimate excuse for not showing up in October. He wasnt invited.


[color="#FF0000"][size=7]Go Red Sox!![/size][/color]

[Mercy me]