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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

N.Y. Times: Schwarz: Some Players Hold Their Noses to Say Goodbye to Yankee Stadium (RR)

I know a lot of glutaraldehyde was spilled when Jim “The Mummy” Coates was embalmed, but still…

Yankee Stadium is holding up about as well as any 85-year-old can be expected to, but the ballpark’s 1970s facelift has begun to droop. Players found reasons for moving on easy to come up with.

Olfactory issues led the voting, although few players were able to identify what the problem has been. Is one of Babe Ruth’s half-eaten hot dogs still rotting under one of the grandstands? Are the foul lines marked with sulfur? And how long does pine tar keep, anyway?

“Especially when it rains, the smell that comes up through the drainage system is not pretty,” said Jason Varitek of the Boston Red Sox. “It affects your sinuses, I’ll tell you that much.”

Young added: “It depends on the day. The last time we were there, which was a couple of weeks ago, a pipe burst. I was going back up the tunnel, and there was a flood — a sewer line broke or something like that. So I still have that kind of in my nose right now.”

Repoz Posted: July 15, 2008 at 12:47 AM | 8 comment(s)
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   1. Charter Member of the Jesus Melendez Fanclub Posted: July 15, 2008 at 01:28 AM (#2856706)
Varitek, no one care what you think, or what you smell. Go get a real haircut and kill yourself.
   2. With 17th Pick, From LA, 1k5v3L KcoLLoP Posted: July 15, 2008 at 01:53 AM (#2856717)
Dude, you've got issues
   3. It's All Voxter Now, Baby Blue Posted: July 15, 2008 at 01:56 AM (#2856718)
He would have been so much better off if he had just avoided empowering the ######## by avoiding quoting any Red Sox.
   4. It's All Voxter Now, Baby Blue Posted: July 15, 2008 at 01:57 AM (#2856719)
Seriously, the nanny gets ####### and ######## but not horseshit, last I checked?
   5. Rich Posted: July 15, 2008 at 02:22 AM (#2856723)
TMI
   6. freepass Posted: July 15, 2008 at 02:33 AM (#2856728)
As much as I want to rag Varitek, who plays in the toilet known as Fenway Park, the tool looking for attention is Alan Schwarz.
   7. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: July 15, 2008 at 06:10 AM (#2856758)
Is there any appreciable difference between Jason Varitek's performance and sulfurous sewage?
   8. winnipegwhip Posted: July 15, 2008 at 01:19 PM (#2857113)
Wouldn't many of these maintainence issues be addressed if there wasn't a new stadium going up? This is a question which needs to be asked when addressing each stadium problem.
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