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Im going to drive to Irving, set up my cooler, and have a big cry when Texas Stadium closes.
Ok, maybe not.
...re ed
Crying at the end of the last game at Yankees Stadium.
Get over it, it's just a ing stadium
Lakers fans didn't give a when Spurs officially closed the Forum
Last edited by lefty; 09-21-2008 at 11:09 PM.
Im going to drive to Irving, set up my cooler, and have a big cry when Texas Stadium closes.
Ok, maybe not.
Lefty you need help and lots of it
Lefty and Ducks seem to have something in common "Hate, hate, hate"
I don't need help.Lefty you need help and lots of it
They do.
There are more tragic things ; it's not like someone died for sake
No appreciation for history.
Crimeny, I hate the Yankees but that stadium has seen a lot. It's not some 25-year 'wonder' like Texas Stadium. Babe Ruth hit a HR in the first game ever played there, for crying out loud, and even if you hate the Yankees you have to respect all the championships they won there over the years. So some fans got emotional, what skin is it off your nose? There's a reason "fan" came from "fanatic," after all.
Non-Yankee fan Lefty is ...
clueless
jealous
petty
disturbed
all of the above
I live in NY and am a huge Yankees fan. My father was emotional about the stadium being tore down because of all his memories as a kid going to the ball-park. Mantle was his favorite player and he has fond memories of Summer's at Yankee stadium watching the Mick hit em out. If you grew up a Yankees fan and have been to the stadium more times than you can count over the years, you would have an appreciation of the history and tradition. Yankee Stadium is one of the most iconic ballparks of all time. It is not just another stadium. If you see it that way, that's fine, but there is nothing wrong with people getting emotional because it means much more to them than it does to you.
Being a die-hard Red Sox fan for almost 25 years I can say this.
I am sad to see Yankee Stadium go, it was a piece of history, I actually think it should be a historic landmark. To think of all of the legends that have played there over the past 85 years is astonishing.
I got a chill when I saw Whitey Ford and Don Larsen on the mound and Berra behind the plate. Absolute legends of the game, and Im glad I got to see it, albeit on television.
My grandfather would have been emotional to see the end of Yankee stadium. He went there when he was a litlte kid to see Ruth play and took my dad there to see Dimaggio and Mantle. If you love baseball and you love New York, it's an important moment.
Can someone tell me why it is being torn down? If they like it so much, why don't they keep using it?
Someone that understands what i was saying
Buildings get torn down. New buildings get built.
You can appreciate history without being a ing tool crying over bricks and dirt.
Because it is really old and starting to cost more to keep running than it should. The Yanks are the richest team in all of baseball so they decided to cut their losses and privately finance a new stadium. The Red-Sox one day will tear down Fen-Way and the Cubbies one day will part ways with Wrigley Field and their fans will be very emotional about it as well.
Last edited by dbreiden83080; 09-22-2008 at 03:52 PM.
I'm nor saying it's not a great building, or that it doesn't have lot of great memories.
In fact, I wish they kept Yankee Stadium, as It's really authentic
But still....
"Still" what??
I explained to you why it means so much to some people. What else do you wanna know? If you are not a huge Yankees fan that has been there countless times, of course it means nothing to you.
I'm a Yankees fan
Sure you are
That's what I said
Duh
Right before you said thisThat's what I said
Duh
And...?Right before you said this
What's your point?
I' m a Yankees fan who thinks that those other Yankees fans who were at Yankee Stadium crying last Sunday are ing re s
I'm a fan, not a homer
I am 37. I am a Cubs fan, and I have been ever since my family had cable installed in 1982. We lost our AAA team (fed Detroit) two years later, so I have been a pretty hardcore Cubs fan for some time now.
Objectively, there are two major obstacles in the way of the Chicago National League Ballclub:
1) Tribune Co. ownership; and
2) Wrigley Field.
Over the years, due to the Tribune's manipulation of Wrigley Field as a National Historical Landmark and media frenzy generally, I have only seen the Cubs at Wrigley Field once. (That was against the Expos in 1988, for crying out loud.) When I have seen the Cubs in person any other time in the last twenty years, I was at Busch Stadium, Busch Stadium II, Riverfront Stadium, The Great American Ballpark, Three Rivers Stadium, Miller Park, Turner Field, New Comiskey, or U.S. Cellular Field.
When you factor in all of the Cubs' games I watched at the old Busch Stadium and the years I lived near Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg (Spring training), I have seen more Cardinals' games than Cubs' games in person.
Bottom Line: Burn the Urinal to the ground, for all I care. The Cubs' fan base justifies a 50,000+ facility. If they had a decent stadium and its corresponding revenues back in the 1980's, it wouldn't be 100 years since the last Cubs' last world championship.
Compared to Fenway and Bosse Field (the only other stadiums anywhere close to 100 years old), Wrigley is a moldy dump.
I made my point clear multiple times yet you still seem not able to get it or just looking for an argument. Hardcore Yankee fans that have great memories of Yankee Stadium, as kids or adults it means something to them. I have been to Yankee Stadium probably 50 times since i was a kid, my father more than a hundred times and i explained the specifics of that already. It means a of a lot to certain fans. Fans that i can tell are much bigger than you are claiming to be. You get it NOW???
I don't.
But thanks for trying
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