The Duplicate of the House Ruth Built (split from AON)

[Centerfield]

I was on the Bronx this morning. I can't help but notice that the new stadium they are building is essentially the exact same stadium. You know you don't need a new stadium when they ask you how to build it and you tell them to duplicate one you already have.

[seawolf17]

Well, if they make it the same, then they can still say that Babe Ruth played there.

[Centerfield]

I wonder why people who get chills playing at Yankee Stadium because Babe Ruth played there don't get the same chills at Fenway.

Whatever. I'm sure they'll find some way to spin it.


"It is an honor to play baseball on the same ground that greats like Ruth, DiMaggio and Gehrig might walked across on their way to the stadium..."

[Willets Point]

If we're being strict on ballpark building dates, Fenway was reconstructed in 1934 after a fire. There's even a cornerstone on Yawkey Way that has 1934 as the date. So Babe never played at that Fenway either, although technically he probably played on the same "ground" in each ballpark (but not the same exact specks of dust, and certainly not the same molecular structures!).

[Benjamin Grimm]

Didn't they also shift the field when they rebuilt Yankee Stadium?

I think they did. Which means that Giambi isn't standing where Gehrig stood, and Posada isn't squatting where Berra and Dickey squatted.

[Guest AG/DC]

Posada isn't squat.

[soupcan]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Posada isn't squatting where Berra and Dickey squatted.

But they didn't move the location of the toilets in the clubhouse so....

[Willets Point]

soupcan wrote: ="Benjamin Grimm"]Posada isn't squatting where Berra and Dickey squatted. But they didn't move the location of the toilets in the clubhouse so....

Beat me to the punchline.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I knew I was setting someone up for a joke.

You would have gotten extra points, though, if you had worked Senator Larry Craig into it.

[Guest themetfairy]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I knew I was setting someone up for a joke. You would have gotten extra points, though, if you had worked Senator Larry Craig into it.

The St. Paul Saints are taking care of that chore.

[metirish]

Funny.

[seawolf17]

I can't imagine why anyone would want that, for any reason. Weird.

Centerfield wrote: I wonder why people who get chills playing at Yankee Stadium because Babe Ruth played there don't get the same chills at Fenway.

Babe Ruth never played for the Red Sox! Come on, man! Dude is a YANKEE. Next thing you're going to tell me is that Paulie O'Neill won a World Series with the Reds. Whatever, dude! 26 World Championships, baby!

[metirish]

Looks horrible but I suppose it fits in with that area , all the court houses and stuff.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

="metirish"]Looks horrible but I suppose it fits in with that area , all the court houses and stuff.

What a God-forsaken hell hole! I bet they don't even have a routunda to honor another team's player!

But serously, everything I read about that new dump makes it clear that middle-class folks aren't welcome. All that talk about five-star restaurants and all. Ticket prices that are just stupidly expensive.

I want to go to a ballgame, sit with my friends and family and eat a hot dog. If I want to go to an mega-expensive restaurant, there are plenty in New York.

I'm sure they'll sell out every game and make a bazillion dollars. But they'll take the average fan out of the picture, which is what happened here with the Red Wings.

[Guest AG/DC]

Middle class folks are welcome. They're welcome like they're welcome on Broadway --- if they carefully seek out the best packages and are willing to set money aside for it as something truly special and come out only a few times a year.

With the area's population, and exclusive rights to this market that the Yankees and Mets share, that model may well work.

The problem is that, with Broadway, you pretty much know you're going to get a polished performance every time out. With sports, not so much. But the attendance figures I'm reading this year for the Mets --- for a team getting booed night after night, mind you --- are blowing my mind.

[Willets Point]

And poor folks are welcome to get minimum wage jobs with no benefits in the Stadium!

[Frayed Knot]

="Benjamin Grimm"]Didn't they also shift the field when they rebuilt Yankee Stadium?

I know they dropped the field a few feet so as to have the effect of raising the shell of the stadium and the front row of seats relative to the field. Not sure if HP and the bases are in the exact same spot or not. If they did move it wasn't more than a few feet.

Basically the idea of this new-new version is to construct a stadium with the pre-renovation exterior and the post-renovation interior ... plus lotsa luxury boxes of course.

[metirish]

Going to stick this here , was listening to Steve Somers on the wFan and the day after each Yankee game they have fans call in to guess the " changing play of the game" , Steve played the call from John Sterling that was the play ," it's a high fly ball from Cano to deep center....Ichiro goes back , and it's a two run double....two ribees for Robbie Cano....don't you know , oh it's a ribee for Robbie.......oh wait what am I talking about , that was Jose Molina"....maybe you had to have heard it.