New Yankees Stadium construction photos - Page 2

DR3AMR · 12-08-2006, 10:58 AM

I love the idea of a New Yankee Stadium.

They won 26 WS titles in the old one. So, why not upset the Baseball Gods? This will be great for the rest of the league.

InfiniteJest · 12-25-2006, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by dlb

Are they building it right next to the old Yankee Stadium? It looks like they are. Unless the Bronx has changed, that's a real shame.

It would have been nice to get one in Manhattan. Might have been a good use for the old WTC site.

I wonder where you think they should put the 10 million feet of office space that needed to be replaced?

Timmer · 12-29-2006, 09:42 AM

This was a horrible idea from the get-go. Yankee Stadium isn't bad and I don't see why it needs replacing. Just move the seats in along the 1B and 3B lines, move the OF corners in, deepen CF, put up more facade, and restore the scoreboards that they had in the side wall along the 1B and 3B lines, and you can have luxury boxes on the 2nd and 3rd levels.

Yankee Stadium is hallowed ground. When Josh Phelps or Andy Phillips or whomeaver runs out to 1B, he is playing where Gehrig played. When Damon runs out to CF, he's where DiMaggio and Mantle were. Abreu is on Babe Ruth's spot. Posada is on Dickey's and Berra's and Howard's and Munson's.

The new park, a billion-dollar project, is taking city park land. I see no reason to do this, but George is doing it. (Fans will also lose the ability to see the field from the #4 train platform.) There is a special feel about Yankee Stadium.

BTW, George has promised numerous times that he would build a Metro North stop at Yankee Stadium. Do you see any sign of that happening? Of course not. The Fat Man got what he wanted, so now he has no intention of keeping his promises.

kelleigh1 · 12-29-2006, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I've honestly never been there, but my friend says that the seating there is horrible. Things like... if you're down the third base line near the pole, the seat doesn't face home plate, but instead faces the right field pole. Things like that ticked him off I guess.

Sounds just like Fenway. I'm convinced that there are only about 10 seats in all of Fenway that actually face home plate.

John F · 12-31-2006, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Timmer

This was a horrible idea from the get-go.

And it's an idea that's been floating around since the 1980's.

2 decades of bad ideas. The only thing that would be worse is New York NOT doing this and the Yankees moving to a park at the Meadowlands. THAT would be a bad idea for all parties from the get go.

John F · 05-29-2008, 07:37 PM

It's been more than a year since I or anyone else posted in thsi thread...

I've been followign the construction images from time to time on StadiumPage.com -- where they have new photos every few days and such. The one constant is that actual viewing of the inner bowl construction is impossible.

The outside looks ominous, foreboding, sterile... Almost an epitome fo the "evil empire" moniker. It's odd because just a few miles away, Citifield is open and accessible to the camera eye and it seems warm and inviting even in it's state of construction.

John F · 06-01-2008, 03:53 PM

Admin note: Moved to the Yankee forum.

05-29-2008, 07:37 PM	#21 (permalink)
John F Administrator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tampa Bay area, Florida Posts: 2,497	It's been more than a year since I or anyone else posted in thsi thread... I've been followign the construction images from time to time on StadiumPage.com -- where they have new photos every few days and such. The one constant is that actual viewing of the inner bowl construction is impossible. The outside looks ominous, foreboding, sterile... Almost an epitome fo the "evil empire" moniker. It's odd because just a few miles away, Citifield is open and accessible to the camera eye and it seems warm and inviting even in it's state of construction. __________________ The more they over think the plumbing, the easier to stop up the drain.

06-01-2008, 03:53 PM	#22 (permalink)
John F Administrator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tampa Bay area, Florida Posts: 2,497	Admin note: Moved to the Yankee forum. __________________ The more they over think the plumbing, the easier to stop up the drain.

12-08-2006, 10:58 AM	#16 (permalink)
DR3AMR Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 4,559	I love the idea of a New Yankee Stadium. They won 26 WS titles in the old one. So, why not upset the Baseball Gods? This will be great for the rest of the league.

12-29-2006, 09:42 AM	#18 (permalink)
Timmer Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,727	This was a horrible idea from the get-go. Yankee Stadium isn't bad and I don't see why it needs replacing. Just move the seats in along the 1B and 3B lines, move the OF corners in, deepen CF, put up more facade, and restore the scoreboards that they had in the side wall along the 1B and 3B lines, and you can have luxury boxes on the 2nd and 3rd levels. Yankee Stadium is hallowed ground. When Josh Phelps or Andy Phillips or whomeaver runs out to 1B, he is playing where Gehrig played. When Damon runs out to CF, he's where DiMaggio and Mantle were. Abreu is on Babe Ruth's spot. Posada is on Dickey's and Berra's and Howard's and Munson's. The new park, a billion-dollar project, is taking city park land. I see no reason to do this, but George is doing it. (Fans will also lose the ability to see the field from the #4 train platform.) There is a special feel about Yankee Stadium. BTW, George has promised numerous times that he would build a Metro North stop at Yankee Stadium. Do you see any sign of that happening? Of course not. The Fat Man got what he wanted, so now he has no intention of keeping his promises.