Today’s schedule at the Stadium
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10:00 a.m.: Gates open to ticket holders
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Yankees batting practice
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.: Cubs batting practice
12:50 p.m.: Lineups announced
12:54 p.m.: Presentation of colors by SUNY Maritime Color Guard
12:54:30 p.m.: Introduction of Challenger the American Bald Eagle
12:56 p.m.: Moment of silence for Arthur Richman and Johnny Blanchard
12:56:30 p.m.: National Anthem: Robert Merrill Tribute Video
1:02 p.m.: Umpires and Managers to home plate
1:05 p.m.: Yankees take the field / ceremonial first pitch by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger
1:08 p.m.: First pitch
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Chad Jennings
Sam Borden
stupid question but who’s pitching today? my guess was AJ but i wasnt sure..
Pete, thanks for all the perspective both from inside the stadium and the clubhouse afterwards. Interesting comments on the smaller scoreboards and monument park.
AJ and Pettitte are splitting.
I am leaving soon, weather looks pretty nasty. I am bummed.
Expect rain today at stadium…..
Pete the manual/auxiliary scoreboards although functional is mainly there for character and show. Yes it’s small and hard to see from a distance but I don’t think the Yankees intended for it to be relied on.
There are other places in the park where you can see how many outs and what the score is.
Look at it on the other hand it gives someone a job.
Someone put some weights around Edwar’s ankles-it’s windy outside! Wouldn’t want him to blow away.
Today’s schedule update:
9:30 am.: Murphydog climbs up on the backstop behind home plate and cuts a giant hole through it for the cameras.
Since I cannot afford to go to the stadium on a regular basis (or so my wife tells me), I get my Yankee fix via YES, Michael Kay’s contrived excesses notwithstanding. I recall Pete’s post a few days ago that there was talk about lousy camera lines of sight at the new place, but I thought: “C’mon. How bad can it be? HOK Sport are the best in the biz. They wouldn’t screw this up.”
Well, let me tell you that watching shots of the field through a backstop net is pure Bush League in a Billion Dollar State of the Art Brand Frikkin New Major League Stadium. It absolutely ruins – RUINS – the broadcast. When does this get fixed?
I assume they will fix the net issue soon, at least I hope they do. It is very spring training-like.
I don’t know if anybody else noticed, but the camera shots on the balls down the line appeared to be at a very odd angle. A much different perspective on those balls than the old stadium, or any other stadiums, for that matter. I didn’t really like it, anybody else notice that?
murphydog,
The camera shots through the net are really bad. Here’s hoping they get addressed soon. Was it me, or did it sound like there was less crowd noise too? Being less than a full house, cold and rainy could have factored into it.
“Was it me, or did it sound like there was less crowd noise too?”
Yes, of course, there was less crowd, too. Hopefully that was due to the weather and the fact that it was an exhibition game. I would hate to see nothing but beautiful, comfortable, padded, and very empty seats from the centerfield camera all year long.
Mark in Tampa:
I guess this was all part of what Pete was hearing the other day: odd/bad camera angles. It’s funny that everybody who has been to the new stadium in person says it’s very reminiscent of the old stadium. Unfortunately, the experience of the new stadium on TV is very different from the old stadium and much, much poorer, IMO.
It is not unusual in modern stadiums – including in Washington and San Francisco – to have this problem. Nets these days tend to be larger than they used to be.
“The lower camera position eliminated the wires but we still have the netting and chose to do that because it was a much better view than the first one,” YES spokesman Eric Handler said Tuesday.
“The height of the screens is a function of the way these new stadiums are built, which factor in safety concerns. It’s a concern. I haven’t seen that shot in a telecast setting so I can’t project how it will look. Sure, we’d love to have a clean shot.”
http://weblogs.newsday.com/spo.....raham.html
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I don’t think the netting is going away, but I guess we will see.
Drive 4-5, on the post game show Bob Lorenz said that a lot of fans were exploring the stadium and walking around the great hall. There were a lot less people in their seats watching the game. It was more about the stadium than the game last night. That’s why the crowd was quieter.
Red Sox ballpark-envy:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sp.....position=4
Tim Kurkjian LOVES the Yankees. Thinks the pitching will win the AL East for all those concerned.
See there is some use on ESPN
I’ll be interested to hear fans’ opinions after attending games there. The new concourses look terrific. I’m sure it’s much roomier and more comfortable than Yankee Stadium was. I’ll defer judgement on the new place until I attend games there later this summer. All I know about the new building itself is that I caught a glimpse on tv last night of where my tickets have been relocated to and wanted to puke. We were shoved from Tier 2 behind home plate to section 4313B in the last row near the left field foul pole.
I’m sure improvements will be made as time goes on. The tv camera shots that look through the netting should be addressed. You really should be able to see the retired numbers too. All I really want to know is what happened to the bat on the top of the flag pole??
I’m anxiously awaiting attending games. Crummy seats notwithstanding, I’m sure there will be things I like about the new ballpark more than Yankee Stadium.
about Lou:
“He was hoping he would not be disappointed by the new Yankee Stadium, the gussied-up version for the new century. Inside the blue Cubs jacket is a swatch of striped uniform, after 15 years of working for George Steinbrenner, but it is all right for a baseball man to have multiple loyalties.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04.....ref=sports
too cool
Drive 4-5:
I’m sure part of the sound issue is that the crowd noise microphones in the new stadium needed a real crowd to test the sound. Consider also that the new seating arrangements will definitely produce different acoustics. Until YES and WCBS get the “mix” just right, it will sound different. So I’m going to consider last night a sound check.
But along with different acoustics, there will be different park effects. I think the old stadium was considered pretty neutral as far as park effect. It sure didn’t look like a pitcher’s ball park last night. The ball was traveling pretty good even to left center in cold damp weather as Coney and O’Neill noted after the game. But it could also be that it was a ST tune up and the pitchers were more interested in getting their work in than keeping the ball in the park. It’ll be interesting to see what the new stadium turns into. I’m not sure anyone really knows yet.
I’ll chime in as well regarding the TV site lines. Maybe someone who can actually do something about it pays attention to this blog.
The view through the net is appalling when you consider the planning and $$$ that went into that stadium. I’m not convinced its a quick fix as the net appears to span a much larger area than in the old stadium. And given that the decks are recessed, its hard to imagine they can place a camera over the net and close enough to the field to get the same view as with the old stadium. The camera shots to the corners is also vastly inferior to the old views where you could follow the ball down the line and into the corner. The centerfield shot towards the batter is too low..you can’t see the plate. I kept hoping the umpire would wipe off the plate… but i guess that wasn’t the problem.
But the net problem is by far the worst… perhaps if they continue to have problems filling those seats behind the plate they could just take the net down.
“But the net problem is by far the worst… perhaps if they continue to have problems filling those seats behind the plate they could just take the net down. ”
In my best Ronald Reagan voice: “Mr Steinbrenner…tear down this net!”.
Hey Pete, I was hoping the new stadium would at least bring a new rendition of God Bless America. Did that happen or will we still be listening to Kate Smith every game?
Peter,
LOVE your blog. Makes keeping up with the yankees very easy for a fan based in California. However, I have to disagree with you 100% when you refer to the field crew’s tradition of rocking “YMCA” as “lame.” Personally, I think it’s a wholly unique part of the Yankee Game Experience that I was psyched to hear followed the team over to the new stadium. Think about how many players, let alone fans, visit the hallowed ground of Yankee stadium – the staid home office of this business like franchise – and are surprised to see them break out the Village People mid-game. Right up there with the bleacher creature “roll call.” Let’s hope the new digs inspire a whole new set of traditions.
“Take the wave to…Citi?”
What happened to the vendors, somebody tell em where cousin brewskie is??? No hot dog vendors, peanuts, at all down on field level
The crowd was quieter because the Yankee Stadium sound was not working from the fifth inning on. It was quite hillarious. “Cotton Eye Joe” to “Quiet Eye Joe” or something like that. There was no PA as well.