Comments on: Chopping up the old Stadium

By: steveboyington

steveboyington — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:46:52 +0000

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!

By: Jersey Boy

Jersey Boy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:46:04 +0000

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.

By: bardos

bardos — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:17:36 +0000

actually i am channeling him.

By: ditmars1929

ditmars1929 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:40:45 +0000

Who are you talking to, bardos, Al Gore?

By: bardos

bardos — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:29:09 +0000

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.

By: bardos

bardos — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:23:16 +0000

i would like some freezing facade in my dining room as a conversation piece.

By: murphydog

murphydog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:17:14 +0000

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.

By: Bill Greeves

Bill Greeves — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:16:41 +0000

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!

By: ditmars1929

ditmars1929 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:15:01 +0000

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.

By: Erica - always OPPC

Erica - always OPPC — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:09:55 +0000

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