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Vote For New York Mets Citi Field Over Yankee Stadium

The folks over at WNBC’s Web site, NBCNewYork.com sent us a nice note today – and since it’s a “pile on the Yankees day” I’m game.

This year we launched a fun campaign called Golden Local, where we ask station viewers and site users to vote for one of two New York institutions. So far we’ve done bagels, steakhouses, hot dogs and old bars.

But looking ahead to the Subway Series in less than two weeks, I think we’ve got our best debate yet — Best New Stadium.

So I’m writing to you to see if you’d be interested in writing about or at least mentioning or linking to our Golden Local debate page, and asking some of your readers to go to it and vote for Citi Field. 


Since everyone in New York except the New Stadium Insider (who has a really great blog actually, but is blind to relative niceness of stadiums), we all know who should win this contest – however, since there may be other delusional Yankees fans out there, lets make sure the Mets win (even if there are awful obstructed views in the Promenade).

The NBCers sent over some links below….click them so they see that people visited their website from this one – maybe someone over there will notice the obstructed views story.

The main Golden Local page:

Article — Yankees, Mets Fans Talk Trash in Golden Local Debate

Video — David Wright Makes His Case For Citi Field

Video — Yankees, Mets Fans Debate Over Best Stadium

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New Yankee Stadium Crappy For Autographs (Times)

Looks like it’s another “pile on the Yankees” day.  The Times has a nice piece about how you’re unlikely to get an autograph.

Jason Zillo, a Yankees spokesman, said that both players and fans were still adjusting to the new space and that the Yankees were making efforts to better connect players with fans. “Autographs are a part of that,” he said.

Inside the stadium on a recent Sunday, fans tried to get autographs during batting practice, young children and their parents lining up against the right-field wall and calling out to players as they warmed up. When Joba Chamberlain, a promising pitcher known for being somewhat generous with his signature, sauntered into right field, the crowd cried for his attention. After a short warm-up, he departed without signing an autograph.


Among the disappointed were David Thoreen’s two sons, Sam, 9, and Henry, 13.


Pile on the Yankees by reading the article here.

Me, I met Tom Seaver when I was 4.

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Yahoo Sports Is Killing New Yankee Stadium

Yahoo Sports is one of the most read websites every day – so I’m sure that the Yankees are thrilled that they are being killed.
 
Here’s the story and here’s an excerpt:
But the Yankees? There are serious questions about why the home of the most decorated team in sports is playing like a Little League field. This isn’t some non-issue, and it’s not going away. Players think it’s crazy. Executives think it’s crazy. Fans think it’s crazy. There must be an explanation for how this happened. Something went wrong somewhere, and the Yankees will remedy it.


“I understand your point,” McGillion emailed, “but we are not going to comment.”
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Much of Rybarczyk’s findings center on the new Yankee Stadium’s dimensions. The Yankees continue to say publicly that they are the same as the old stadium. Rybarczyk argues otherwise, using modeling software to show that the fences in right field and right-center field are four feet closer than the House That Ruth Built – and 17 feet closer than the average fences on the right side of other ballparks. The left and left-center fences, Rybarczyk said, were moved in three feet. The Yankees did push the center-field fence back 3½ feet, though only 11 percent of home runs land there, so it doesn’t exactly offset the launching-pad effects of the gaps and lines.

Wow there’s so much here.  That’s just a small taste.  You have to read the whole thing.

Maybe New Stadium Insider will stop being the only person who thinks New Yankee is better than Citi Field.  You guys have a lemon, and will have a lemon until 2070.

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"Did You Ever Serve A Subpoena On The Mets?"

I like the new Yankees defense:  â€œDid you ever serve a subpoena on the Mets?” Carpinello asked.

I don’t understand what any of this is about but that quote is from the Times story below:

By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Published: June 2, 2009

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky and the New York Yankees are engaged in an acid, bruising court battle over access to a wide array of documents relating to the team’s new stadium.

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Mailbag: Sweet Caroline, Attendance, Centerfield Maz Blog

The idea that Sweet Caroline might be gone forever is exciting – “Sweet Caroline Not Dead Yet?“: 

I was as the game last night, and I was pleased that my sectionmates (in Left Field Landing,) all sang along to Meet The Mets, even though I don’t think we could see the words.

The song should be played every game, and a new generation of fans should learn the song too…

I read the comment about it being played at the beginning of the game–not a bad idea. Maybe the end of the game too, as I CAN NOT STAND the cliched song, Taking Care of Business, over and over and over…

My 8th inning song–Helter Skelter, crowd would love it. Kidding. 



DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Wallace Matthews On New York Mets and Yankees Atte…“: 

Do you think that Wilpon & son and the Steinbrenner brothers heard voices in their head saying “If you build it, they will come”?

None of this is a shock to me. It’s almost like the recipe for a perfect storm – stadiums that were built to cater to the rich more than the hardcore (if you ever went on the Citi Field experience tour at Shea last year, you know) with ridiculously higher prices (put aside sight lines and such), people becoming more tired of ordering and processing ticket fees, and the fact that this isn’t the roaring 20s (far from it, but I don’t think the current economy is a complete factor aside from the missing corporate types). for the football stadium, the price structure is calculated a bit differently with PSLs, but it’s the same idea.

I’d love to see a Subway Series just to see whether either stadium fills up at World Series prices.



Finally, Centerfield Maz let us know what jersey he was wearing when he caught the foul ball:




contact @ [email protected] has left a new comment on your post “Centerfield Maz Blogger Catches Foul Ball At New Y…“:

Thanks for the kind words. My goal is to keep the Mets & NY Giants history alive. Let’s remember all the great moments there were.

As for the jersey I am wearing, it’s an official 1969 Tom Seaver, grey Mets road replica. It’s made of flannel so its hot and I can only wear it seasonally.

Make sure you check out the Centerfield Maz blog.  


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