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Saturday, March 27, 2010

The upper deck in old Yankee Stadium is officially no more

HIT DEEP TO RIGHT! THIS COULD BE IT!

The destruction of Yankee Stadium continued on Thursday when the last section of the upper deck in right field came tumbling down. But while a few Tweeters happily danced upon the rubble when I sent this video out earlier, I can’t work up anything but nostalgic schmaltz. It’s a sad thing when a stadium dies and it’s strange to think of how many games that section was packed with fans — or caught by a panning camera as a home run soared into right field.

Repoz Posted: March 27, 2010 at 11:51 AM | 32 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Juan V Posted: March 27, 2010 at 12:56 PM (#3487074)
This is an ex upper deck.
   2. villageidiom Posted: March 27, 2010 at 01:23 PM (#3487079)
No it's not. It's resting.
   3. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: March 27, 2010 at 02:04 PM (#3487087)
That exit there was where I left the field section of Yankee Stadium for the final time.
   4. Swoboda is freedom Posted: March 27, 2010 at 02:30 PM (#3487095)
The deck is pining for the fields.
   5. AndrewJ Posted: March 27, 2010 at 02:48 PM (#3487101)
That stadium wouldn't move it you put four thousand volts through it. It's bleedin' demised.
   6. TerpNats Posted: March 27, 2010 at 02:58 PM (#3487104)
Cue Frank Sinatra's "There Used To Be A Ballpark."

It will be interesting to see how this work will affect wind currents at the new Stadium.
   7. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: March 27, 2010 at 03:15 PM (#3487108)
It will be interesting to see how this work will affect wind currents at the new Stadium.

That is the new Stadium. What a horrible, horrible mistake.

Seriously, though, wind currents were never the problem. It's that little section of right-center that's shorter than it was at the old park, because the wall goes straight instead of curving.
   8. Sam M. Posted: March 27, 2010 at 03:28 PM (#3487113)
Cue Frank Sinatra's "There Used To Be A Ballpark."

Or Tim McCarver's!!!

Be afraid. Be very afraid.
   9. robinred Posted: March 27, 2010 at 03:32 PM (#3487114)
There are samples at Sam's link. I listened to one. Sort of sounds like a guy trying to imitate Jack Jones.
   10. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: March 27, 2010 at 03:45 PM (#3487117)
There are samples at Sam's link. I listened to one. Sort of sounds like a guy trying to imitate Jack Jones.

If one is going to emulate a singing Jones, the only reasonable choice is Tom.
   11. Repoz Posted: March 27, 2010 at 03:51 PM (#3487120)
It's that little section of right-center that's shorter than it was at the old park, because the wall goes straight instead of curving.

I still find it hard to believe that Trostvine went around lying about the dimensions...and never caught shiit.

Francesspool still says the dimensions are identical to the old Stadium "because Lonn Trost told me so and who are you going to believe?!"
   12. Gamingboy Posted: March 27, 2010 at 03:58 PM (#3487123)
I just got this great idea for a detective novel: A old stadium is knocked down, and in the rubble is found the scapegoat of a heartbreaking October loss- and he's tied up. It could only be...... murder.

Needless to say, it would not be about the demolition of Yankee Stadium. Still, a great idea. Feel free to steal it.
   13. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: March 27, 2010 at 04:06 PM (#3487124)
I just got this great idea for a detective novel: A old stadium is knocked down, and in the rubble is found the scapegoat of a heartbreaking October loss- and he's tied up. It could only be...... murder.

Needless to say, it would not be about the demolition of Yankee Stadium. Still, a great idea. Feel free to steal it.

I'd like to see Kevin Brown disposed of in that manner. Or Randy Johnson.
   14. esseff Posted: March 27, 2010 at 04:07 PM (#3487126)
Or Tim McCarver's

Tim McCarver has a right to be nostalgic about Yankee Stadium. The biggest home run of his career was hit there (pre-'70s renovation).
   15. Swedish Chef Posted: March 27, 2010 at 04:23 PM (#3487129)
I just got this great idea for a detective novel: A old stadium is knocked down, and in the rubble is found the scapegoat of a heartbreaking October loss- and he's tied up. It could only be...... murder.

Needless to say, it would not be about the demolition of Yankee Stadium. Still, a great idea. Feel free to steal it.

For a more of a paranormal twist they could find the room where the space alien put on his Mariano Rivera costume before each game.
   16. Greg Goosen at 30 Posted: March 27, 2010 at 04:37 PM (#3487134)
When they finally knock it down, they will find a George Burns Red Sox jersey buried in the foundation.
   17. Rough Carrigan Posted: March 27, 2010 at 05:57 PM (#3487178)
No. Harry Frazee's soul.

The first yankee team to win the World Series in 1923 featured 4/5 of its rotation, and its starting catcher, shortstop, third baseman and, of course, right fielder that had been acquired from the Red Sox.
   18. Random Transaction Generator Posted: March 27, 2010 at 07:57 PM (#3487223)
I only went to one game at Yankee stadium (2004, vs Seattle), and that's the section we sat in.
   19. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot Posted: March 27, 2010 at 10:19 PM (#3487273)
No. Harry Frazee's soul.

The first yankee team to win the World Series in 1923 featured 4/5 of its rotation, and its starting catcher, shortstop, third baseman and, of course, right fielder that had been acquired from the Red Sox.

Good times!
   20. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: March 27, 2010 at 11:22 PM (#3487296)
I only went to one game at Yankee stadium (2004, vs Seattle), and that's the section we sat in.
I'm glad to hear you got out in time.
   21. Jose Can You Seabiscuit Posted: March 28, 2010 at 12:59 AM (#3487325)
I went to two games there, never sat in the upper deck but that section looked to me like a great spot to watch a ballgame.
   22. TerpNats Posted: March 28, 2010 at 01:05 AM (#3487329)
Many of my best times as a baseball fan have been spent at that site (I use that term because my first two MLB games were at the original Stadium, the one the new one tries to emulate, in 1970). Cone's perfect game, an unassisted triple play by Randy Velarde, Bernie Williams homering to beat the hated Orioles in game 1 of the 1996 ALCS (aka the Jeffrey Maier game). Plus, a guy I once worked with whose grandmother was an avid Yankees fan snuck into the ballpark during the offseason and deposited her ashes there after the '96 Series.
   23. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: March 28, 2010 at 01:27 AM (#3487338)
I believe the home run George Brett hit off Rich Gossage is still lodged up there.
   24. Liver of blaspheming 'zop Posted: March 28, 2010 at 01:47 AM (#3487342)
Watching a high, arcing homerun drop into the upper deck was one of the trademark sights of baseball on television. It's a shame those days are gone.

I wish they'd cantilevered the upper deck at NYS in RF over the lower deck to capture the feeling of the old short porch.
   25. Steve S. of TYA Posted: March 28, 2010 at 01:52 AM (#3487343)
People are watching this in Boston and having a party, cheering and getting drunk as we speak.
   26. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: March 28, 2010 at 02:33 AM (#3487354)
People are watching this in Boston and having a party, cheering and getting drunk as we speak.

Patriots Day isn't for three more weeks.
   27. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: March 28, 2010 at 02:34 AM (#3487355)
My main objection to the new Stadium is that the view of the courthouse from the upper deck behind home plate isn't as good. The vista of 161st up to the Concourse was one of my favorite things.
   28. Flynn Posted: March 28, 2010 at 02:49 AM (#3487362)
People are watching this in Boston and having a party, cheering and getting drunk as we speak.

Why would I want to see the stadium that hosted the greatest moment in Red Sox history get town down?
   29. RB in NYC (Now with New iPhone!) Posted: March 28, 2010 at 02:51 AM (#3487364)
I sat in that section for a game in August once, and it must have been--I'm approximating here--10 million degrees. It was a 7 o'clock start but it was just hot as hell.

Looking it up, it was this game. And it was brutal. My parents and I all brought like 3 water bottles each and went through in the first 5 innings.

Also, that game was a CMW Special. 8 IP, 17 ground-outs.
   30. Whaddaya think of that, John Moore? Posted: March 28, 2010 at 03:01 PM (#3487487)
Holy cow... they did it.
   31. Bhaakon Posted: March 28, 2010 at 09:46 PM (#3487621)
What a waste, the Reds could have used that section to patch up the hole in their park.
   32. bunyon Posted: March 28, 2010 at 09:58 PM (#3487623)
I'll second RB's point. I sat in the upper deck at the Stadium for an afternoon game (the day before the Cone perfect game, dammit). I really thought someone was going to die it was so hot.

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