Thursday, May 30, 2013
ESPN : Granderson Funds New Stadium For Alma Mater
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posted 3 weeks ago by The Yankee Clapper to ballparks, charity, chicago, college baseball, new york yankees, stadiums
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Read More...University of Illinois trustees have agreed to a deal in which New York Yankees star Curtis Granderson will pay for most of a new baseball stadium at his alma mater, the University of Illinois-Chicago. Trustees voted Wednesday to name the new stadium after Granderson, who announced in February that he will donate $5 million to the project. The total cost is projected to be $7 million. The open-air, brick-and-stone stadium will seat 1,200 and is expected to open in 2015. The plan calls for using ...
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1. Cuban X Senators posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM # hit 0 | hit 0What amazed me most about yesterday's game was the huge number of empty seats in the last few innings, and the number of empty seats behind the plate all during the game. It's like they were combining the worst traits of Dodgers fans with the blase traits of corporate Yankee fans.
I'm also selfish though. I liked that DC was a bad baseball town where I could decide on a whim to go to a game, get cheap seats, and enjoy myself. This happened when they first moved here too, hopefully it will blow over soon.
I wonder what the comparable percentages would be for an NFL game.
My apologies to die-hard Marlins fans. The newbies are letting you down.
I'd consider that a point in favor of Marlins fans.
Which is of course what the team wants them to do, so they can visit the innumerable amenities of the newer parks. At any given point now in Arlington, there are many hundreds of people watching the game in one of several sports bars, or indeed watching on the enormous TV they've set up beyond the new CF sports bar, from which there's no view of the field at all (but easy access to lots of food and drink). So really, getting bent out of shape about returning to a seat is pretty 20th-century :)
In the old Arlington Stadium, I don't remember there being any place to go at all from the outfield seats (which is where I usually sat). If there was anything except restrooms behind them, I've blotted it out of my memory. In the bleachers at OYS, there were a couple of tired hotdog stands next to the restrooms. There was a lot of incentive to stay in your seat and wait for the getcher-peanuts guy to come around.
I really hate the people that try to get the wave going and then I really hate them when they don't know it has failed and to stop trying.
This.
People are going to a sporting event. It's not a jail sentence.
As for Saturday's Yankees-Nats game, it went 14 innings. How many people, especially if they are taking kids to a game, can stay that long without having their spawn start an armed rebellion.
I almost always stay the entire game, but I've had to leave early because:
1) I was getting sick once and didn't feel like spending the rest of the game throwing up in the stadium toilet
2) Promise of picking someone up at a particular time
3) Really awful weather
1) I was getting sick once and didn't feel like spending the rest of the game throwing up in the stadium toilet
Maybe the guy at Citizens Bank Park should have tried that defense.
Throwing up or having small kids with you are legit excuses, but anything else is perverse for as exciting a game as yesterday's, especially on a perfect Saturday afternoon. If the game delays you from picking up someone, well, that's what cell phones are for. And if they won't understand the reason, then #### em.
The combined interleague record of the Yankees, Orioles, Rangers and Angels is now 36 and 12.
So besides the 4 teams you mentioned the AL has gone 58-60.
Colorado is 1-11 so far!
I agree. The races, for instance, I get to at my leisure and leave the same way; no law says I have to stay for the eleventh race if it's a $5000 maiden claimer.
I've left two baseball games early in this century: one where the Rangers were losing 12-0 in the early innings (where I was there as a sportswriter getting material for my column, and had no interest in covering further), and another where I just felt depressed for inscrutable reasons and had to get out of there. Otherwise I stay (I stayed to the last out of the 21-8 game a few weeks ago). But this is solely because I love baseball above all things. I have no contempt for those who are less wedded to the sport.
Seems like an awful lot of effort when a bullet would suffice. Or as Don Drysdale said about IBBs, why waste 4 pitches when 1 will do.
God Bless 'em, really. Casual fans bring money into the game, which helps support it for those of us who actually care. When they leave early, it opens up better seats and easier commutes for the rest of us.
Well, it was my wife. You can interpret that advice in so many different ways.
That said, I've been pleasantly surprised that ushers have started enforcing the "don't walk down the aisle in the middle of a pitch" rule.
I was actually scolded by an usher at a game at dodgers stadium this year for standing at the top of the stairs, waiting for a break.
When I explained (nicely) that I was waiting for the inning to end, there was a look of blank incomprehension, then "Sir, I need you to either step back or take your seat, or I'll have to ask you to leave".
This is one reason the Dodgers don't sell any standing room tickets either.
I'm pretty sure that this is true in Seattle, at least for the field-level seats. It might even be true for an entire at-bat.
I don't understand cities with public transportation that doesn't run all night. Especially an airport line that closes down before the last plane of the night lands.
That's most cities, though, isn't it? In fact, 24-hour transit is peculiar to the few American cities that feature it (especially New York, with its boast that "all stops are served at all times.") London is notorious for its "last buses and trains," and service in Paris is greatly curtailed in the middle of the night. In fact, New York is (at least in my experience) very odd in the way you can step onto a train at any hour, and its "city never sleeps" mentality is uniquely fostered by that fact. Most cities cannot take that for granted, so they sleep once in a while :)
Is that weird? Fenway has very specific SRO areas and if you aren't standing in them an usher will pretty quickly tell you to move somewhere you are allowed to be. I assumed this was standard practice.
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