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Down the swanny goes Ollie.

I'm with Swanie , the sound is rubbish . Not a bad thing if it were YES I suppose.

I like JCL's theory .

Coors Field East it's being called. Cashman on the study that was done. ] "They didn't indicate anything about rightfield the way they're talking, the way it's playing right now," Cashman said. "I can tell you that." "There was nothing in the study that indicated the ball would be jumping to rightfield," Cashman said. "There was a curiosity about leftfield, to be honest, over time, once the old stadium came down, whether that would have an effect or not on the balls carrying to left. But nothing to rightfield. There was no indication that this [stadium] would play any different than the other ballpark."

Just wondering here .... 1) Do Mets fan care too much about stuff like this , Doc's signature , no HOF in the park ect? 2) Are Mets fans an ungrateful lot , get a new park and still bitching.

It is a good start and nice to know that they are listening to the fans , or hearing them at least.

Schneider just like Clemens gave all his kids names that start with K for all his strike outs.

I agree , I am five minutes from Pelham Park and there are fields there for all the school sports.

="Swan Swan H"]Can metirish restart this thread and call it MFYs to high school team: bugger off? If I were a Brit I would say bugger off....I might say feck off. Anyway this is the third year of All Hollows being homeless as it were.

Oh wow , love that post....some great lines in there , so many in fact.... ] The Stockard Channing girl turned around to me. "Are you all right?" "Yeah, yeah," I go. "It's just... boy they were squeezing Cookie out there." She goes, like, "Whatever." Probably didn't know what "squeezing" or "Cookie" meant. that just made me laugh out loud . If you have not read this take the 10 minutes or whatever and read it. There is a story behind it and I know I asked the last time but I have forgotten.

Hardly convenient for kids in the Bronx to trek over to Staten Island though. Juan Gonzalez in the Daily News reported this weeks ago and in general has been on the yankees and cities case over broken promises in regards to that area.

Sheffield is hitting .182 , if gettign mad helps him hit better then great.

What about the new girl?

They have no O Friday nights game Zimmerman and Dunn have NATINALS on their Uniforms Thanks to D.C. Sports Blog http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/04/nationals_uniform_fail.html

A guy I know here at work with a 15 game plan was turned away from the Acela Club , said he felt like an idiot.

It means little to us but the configuration of the bullpens and especially the visitor bullpen is weird. SNY can't even capture who is warming up most of the time. Apparently the players can't see the game from there either. I'm interested to know if any players have complained about that.

I kind of thought CF was being a bit tongue in cheek.

I spent Easter Sunday with my brother-in-law and his family. Brother-in-laws sisters husband had originally got the 15 game plan in the same section you were in, IIRC 526 or something close. He said the very same things you are saying about what you can't see form there. He argued with the Mets and got sent to a different part of the park with similar results. Third time changing and after a 40 game ticket upgrade he is happy with his seating. I talked to a guy in the cafe this morning who has a similar tale.

I can't be bothered getting into a bad mood over a loss . I took a nap with my son during the game yesterday and missed most of it.

Can a stadium open a week have lore?

They just keep on giving. Meet the latest douchebag Jorge Posada's homer helper, Brian Doyle, joins Yankee Stadium lore BY ROGER RUBIN DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Monday, April 20th 2009, 2:25 AM The Yankees have a new angel in the outfield. Brian Doyle isn't about to supplant Jeffrey Maier in Yankee annals, but his role in the decisive home run of Sunday's 7-3 win over the Indians is undeniable. Cleveland right fielder Trevor Crowe tracked Jorge Posada's high drive to the wall in right field. As the ball came down, it hit Doyle before it got to Crowe's outstretched glove. "I've still got the mark," said the 33-year-old from Scotch Plains, N.J., pointing to a red mark on the inside of his left wrist. Crowe said he could have made a play if not for Doyle's outstretched hands. "I would have caught it," he said. Doyle's take? "I think he might have." The ball hit off Doyle, the top of the wall and Crowe's glove before coming down on the field. First base umpire Tom Halloran signaled home run. Cleveland manager Eric Wedge argued interference. Crew chief Jerry Crawford reviewed a replay, something MLB allows on home run calls. The review confirmed Halloran's judgment and Posada's two-run shot had the Yankees up 4-3. If the ruling went the other way, it would have been a ground-rule double and the Yankees still would have trailed 3-2 with runners at second and third. All parties agree that Posada's ball would have come down a home run if untouched, the reason Crawford upheld the initial call. In that way it's different from the Maier play, where the dispute was whether the kid from Old Tappan, N.J., reached into fair territory and deflected a ball that was coming down in outfielder Tony Tarasco's glove. Crowe was miffed because he believed he could have caught the ball before it hit the top of the wall. "My glove was over the wall and above it. But (Doyle) was above (my glove)," Crowe said. "I didn't even take into account having to get above the fans to catch it." Did the play remind Jeter of his feted longball that tied Game 1 of the ALCS that the Yankees eventually won in extra innings? "Nope, because it went over the fence," he said. Jeter and the Yankees don't see Doyle as an angel at all. Their contention is the ball clearly would have been a home run and the result only came into question because Doyle deflected the ball. Doyle, who works in the technology department at an investment bank, has been coming to Yankee games since he was a kid. His brother Bo has been a season-ticket holder and this year Brian bought a share. They always have been on the outfield wall, but in the original Stadium the seats weren't in fair territory as they are now. He said the fan next to him was wearing a baseball glove and that in reaching for the ball he came into contact with it and possibly Crowe's glove. Crowe said, "There was definitely contact between me and (the) glove." Doyle, not to be confused with the Yankees' 1978 World Series hero of the same name, and his brother have actually discussed what to do in situations where they have a shot at a ball that might be in a player's reach. "It's funny because my brother always yells at me to make sure I knock the ball or do what I need to do to help the Yankees win," he said.

Thought some of you might be interested in this. ] Define Baseball in 150 Words A Slate contest. By John Dickerson Updated Monday, April 20, 2009, at 6:57 AM ET My 6-year-old son is playing baseball. I'm delighted. I didn't push him into it. Honest. I'm trying hard not to be one of those fathers. I even stood out of sight at his first T-ball practice, so he wouldn't see me and feel pressure. (It was harder to hide the film crew.) But I'd be cruel not to play with him, right? So I roll him grounders and teach him how to squash the bug. Like all first-time players, he's fuzzy on the rules. He hits the ball and runs with the bat. (In these troubling times, who'd blame him?) When I explain the rules, I can't get them out fast enough to hold his attention. Or I'm just not a talented explainer: "I was listening," he said, jumping from home plate to second on the imaginary field we'd created on the bed. "It's that I don't understand you So, a Slate contest of precision and brevity and sport: Explain the game of baseball in 150 words or less (the precise length of the previous two paragraphs). The best effort will win the thanks of a grateful father and his son. Use the form below to submit your definition. Please send it by 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22. Slate will publish the winning entry�and some of the most valiant attempts�in a follow-up article. Play ball! http://www.slate.com/id/2216333/

This is the kind of thing that the Mets handle very badly , like metsmarathon noted they should roll with it. Get as many Mets and former Mets to sign on that area , turn it into a cool thing. EDIT - what Greg said

You couldn't make this stuff up.