Chopping up the old Stadium
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This is worse than when they had to shoot Old Yeller.
WCBS’s Tom Kaminski snapped these photos today in the Bronx. They’re taking down the facade at the old Stadium and getting it ready to be chopped up and sold.
For more photos, check out the WCBS.com gallery. Thanks to Roxanne from WCBS for sending along the link and photos.
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Chad Jennings
Sam Borden
NOooooooo!
“This is worse than when they had to shoot Old Yeller.”
Ohhh come on… I haven’t read it yet! Thanks for ruining it!!!!
My god get it over w/ already, hasn’t that stadium suffered enough.
My favorite part was when the buildings fell down.
“This is worse than when they had to shoot Old Yeller.”
PETE!! I never saw the movie I was planing to watch it this long weekend. Thanks for ruining it!!
j/k
so sad
just take the thing down already. I miss that stadium.
You stole my joke, Jennifer. LOL
How long did it take them to tear down Shea? 45 minutes after last season ended?
von you said haven’t read it, I said watched it. Two different things. lol
vin – Shea came down so fast because it was in the middle of nowhere, they were able to literally let the place fall down. YS is in the middle of a densely populated area adjacent to several subway lines. They would be taking the place apart piece by piece even if they didn’t plan on selling everything.
Shea was a mercy killing. This tears my heart out.
And if you act now, you can own that piece of the facade for the bargain price of $50,000. If you order in the next 10 minutes, they will include freeze dried Yankee Stadium grass, a door knob from the executive offices and your choice of Kei Igawa or Kevin Brown game used Gatorade towel only for the price of shipping and handling.
http://www.steinersports.com/e.....ee-stadium
It’s taking long enough.
I wonder how much a section of the facade is going to sell for.
gentrification has ruined this city.
jennifer September 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
“This is worse than when they had to shoot Old Yeller.”
PETE!! I never saw the movie I was planing to watch it this long weekend. Thanks for ruining it!!
j/k
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Exactly! Peter ruin the ending to Inglorious Basterds: I had not idea the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
Tunnel Man
A little Animal House thrown in there huh?
The Facade, now that’s a collectors item I would love to own. Wonder how much they’ll go for.
Where is the Gehrig Bat!
$50k? Ok maybe not.
Erica- you are a wealth of info about your PBF. He was AWESOME last night. I am sure he will be back next year.
Uncle E- way upstate, Potsdam, about as far north as you can go and not be in Canada.
duuuuuuuuuude… those pics are not helping my after lunch coma state…. brutal
I always wanted to replicate the facade as the railing for my deck, try and tell me that wouldn’t be awesome.
Dennis, have a great time in Philly – and let me know where you eat, lol.
Savannah is a definite – I’m going to both Savannah and Charleston in October with my parents. Will you be down there at that time? We are just now starting to think about where we want to stay in Savannah – any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. I would love to hear about any non-touristy places – so thank you very much, and thank Amy as well, in advance.
Trivia courtesy of Joel Sherman
nyp_joelsherman: QUIZ: Yanks have 3 active with 2,000-plus hits (Damon, Jeter, A-Rod). 5 teams have 2 with 2,000-plus Name teams/duos (ans in few hours)
James (One of the Many)
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I always wanted to replicate the facade as the railing for my deck, try and tell me that wouldn’t be awesome
That would not be…
That is not a goog id…
That is sil….
I tried and I can’t.
Cool Idea!
Yea, but they couldn’t chop up Old Yeller and sell his remains for about $10,000 grand apiece.
I’m surprised it’s taken so long to take the old stadium down. Shea was taken apart much faster.
Good point Mike. I understand the demolition process and how it is related to its context (I’m in the architecture business) – I just find it befitting that one place is being taken down piece by piece and the other was wiped away so quickly.
Giants plain landed in Colorado woohoo!!!
Looks like the scene from Animal House when they take apart the Delta House and Bluto is inconsolable.
Bill
Giants plain landed in Colorado woohoo!!!
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It has nothing to do with Marshall.
upstate kate
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Erica- you are a wealth of info about your PBF. He was AWESOME last night. I am sure he will be back next year.
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I know. I was running out of adjectives to describe his awesomeness during the game thread. LOL
Some guy called up WFAN claiming to be a Yankee fan and saw Joe G in the harbor and he ignored everyone, Pena talked to everyone.. goes on and on. Says Swisher ignored everyone asking for his autograph. He mentioned he saw like 10 players (first of all I highly doubt it, i’ve been there a number of times and have only see one player. Joe and Evan for their defended swisha and said maybe he was in a bad mood, you don’t know what happened. They were shocked that he ignored people.
Oh and Joe and Evan are going to talk about what happened between Swisher and the Baltimore pitcher.
This is sad to look at.
What makes me sad isn’t that they’re tearing it down (well, it does, but that’s not the point).
What gets to me is that they’re selling it, bit by bit…
“Trivia courtesy of Joel Sherman
nyp_joelsherman: QUIZ: Yanks have 3 active with 2,000-plus hits (Damon, Jeter, A-Rod). 5 teams have 2 with 2,000-plus Name teams/duos (ans in few hours)”
Just guess, didn’t look.
Seattle, Ichiro and Griffey
Tex, Pudge and Young
LAA, Vlad and Abreu
Col Rox, Giambi and Helton
LAD, Manny and Thome?
Eric – ” … they didn’t chop up old yeller and sell his remains … ”
Good one!
My guesses:
LAA – Abreu, Guerrero
COL – Giambi, Helton
LAD – Ramirez, Thome
TEX – Vizquel, Pudge Rodriguez
SEA – Griffey and Ichiro
also without looking.
I was right about Seattle, LAA, and LAD.
Tex is Pudge and Vizquel (who has a lot more hits then I thought) and Atl in Chipper and Garrett Anderson.
Noooo! I finally get to start wasting time at work & THIS is the first image Cyberspace throws my way? Thank goodness it’s not an off day, or there’d be no way to redeem this Thursday.
Vizquel has 2700 hits! Does he get HOF consideration?
Sad indeed.
I refer to this song often on this blog at the end of the season to explain how I’m feeling. It’s by Paul Simon and it’s on Still Crazy After All These Years. It fits here with those pictures.
Night Game
There were two men down
And the score tied
In the bottom of the eighth
When the pitcher died
And they laid his spikes
On the pitcher’s mound
And his uniform was torn
And his number was left on the ground
Then the night turned cold
Colder than the moon
The stars were white as bones
The stadium was old
Older than the screams
Older than the teams
There were three men down
And the season lost
And the tarpaulin was rolled
Upon the winter frost
ANSKY
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Eric – ” … they didn’t chop up old yeller and sell his remains … ”
Link?
Giambi at 1865.
Murphydog-
Funny but “The Boxer” by Simon and Garfunkel was playing on my iPod as you posted that
Well, atleast they didn’t let Giambi eat the stadium. Boy eats like a goat.
Does anyone keep a running total of how much they’re selling the old stadium off for?
Who actually owned the old stadium? The city or the Yanks?
Be interesting to see how much better they made out on the combined deal (once you add the profits from selling off the old dog’s remains) after it’s all said & done. I wonder if that little detail was originally factored into the funding of the stadium or not.
I always imagine, as I’m crossing the street to NYS, the entire history of the Yankees being played out inside the Original, with all the individual crowds attending those games.
Yankee Stadium, Yankee History, Yankee fans, World Without End. The bones are just bones…
Magic number to clinch:
Playoffs 20 Division 23 Home field in ALCS 24.
If they go 24-5 they match the 1961 team’s record, if they go 29-0 they match the 1998 record.
They can win more raw games than the 1927 team by going 26-3 but because of the shorter schedule back then they cannot have a better winning pct. than 1927 (110-44 .714).
Also: thank you all the people who prayed for and had thoughts for the poster Jonathan, on another site, and a true Yankee fan.
Got some good news: his cancer has not gotten into the bone marrow and is therefore very treatable, and him being 22 gives him an even greater chance for recovery.
To all of you, I know your thoughts and prayers helped, the good news came the very next day.
If you need a heart, and two hands put together in prayer for you or someone you care about, I am yours!
Uncle Ellsworth – he wrote that a few comments before mine
ANSKY
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Uncle Ellsworth – he wrote that a few comments before mine
I know just kidding
I knew-
Abreu/Vlad
Manny/Thome
Pudge/Vizquel
I looked and Ichiro and Giambi don’t have 2000 hits.
Is a DLed player considered active? Sheff/Delgado?
bodhisatva -
I am so happy to hear that good news about your young friend.
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Who’da thunk this team would be what it is today?
I like the picture your imagination creates, bodhi. Now, do you picture it in sepia tones, b&w, or living color, or does it change with the era you’re imagining??
(I’m seeing it in sepia tones, myself.)
I’ve always felt that Yankee Stadium was like the old Bronx High School we all went to at different times; we are all proud graduates of Yankee Stadium. One more Simon and Garfunkel reference, this comes from Bookends and it lasts maybe a minute. It’s called Photographs:
Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you
Time for Rd 3 of Guess the Lineup. Here are the Standings so far
Clint(9/1)
Joe Girardi(9/2)
Submissions until 3:30 PM
I have a question from last night’s game. Why did Phil get a save when the Yankees were up by 8 runs? Is it b/c the score was 3-2 when he came in?
Good news bodhi.
My mom says the rosary daily and we add people to her intentions list all the time. Jonathan was added and her success rate is pretty darn good.
Glad to hear it, bohdi. Good luck Jonathan.
Upstate Kate-
When Hughes entered the game in the 8th it was still a save situation. Even though the Yankees scored so many runs for him in the top of the 9th, once you enter in a save situation the scorers don’t take the save opportunity away
ANSKY, I’m not sure where you’d find a running total of how much Yankee Stadium is selling off for, but it was owned by the City, and the Yankees paid rent (and sometimes defaulted). I read somewhere that the profits of selling it off are something like 60% to the City and 40% for the Yankees.
There was at one point a lot of talk about preserving the Stadium as a landmark and using it for concerts, etc. However, as a stipulation for the New Stadium, the old one had to be razed to replace the neighborhood parkland that the new one took over.
I honestly do not know why everyone keeps calling it the “facade.” You sound IGNORANT when you say this. Please look up the word facade in the dictionary: it’s the front of a frickin’ building. The correct term would be FRIEZE. Ok, class let’s repeat after me me: F-R-I-E-Z-E, FRIEZE!
Erica – always OPPC
“…once you enter in a save situation the scorers don’t take the save opportunity away…”
Man, that was driving me crazy how that could be a save. Thank you Erica.
i would like some freezing facade in my dining room as a conversation piece.
As well, I have it from very reliable sources that once the stadium is down the wind factor, that is, local breezes generated by the heating of the land surface in the Bronx, in combination with global wind patterns resulting from the difference in absorption of solar energy between the climate zones, combined with large scale atmospheric circulation and the differential heating between the equator and the poles, thus causing a jet stream and the associated climatological mid-latitude westerlies, polar easterlies, and the trade winds, will cause the circular motion of air around areas of high and low pressure creating a phenomenon known as “right field porch condition”, which will result in a park factor of exactly 1.00.
Who are you talking to, bardos, Al Gore?
actually i am channeling him.
The Met’s stink so bad they should have stayed in Old Shea. We should be setting up the pitching for the playoffs and W/S.
Do you think they have a bunch of old money bags lying around? The ones that used to hold the money from the fans’ paying for the really expensive seats? If they do, maybe they could sell the money bags to fans as a keepsake!