RAUL AGAIN!!!!!
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GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
<< <i>can he play shortstop? >>
I don't know- but if not, he'll have plenty of time in about a week and a half to start learning the position in time for next spring.
Go Tigers!
Go Tigers!
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<< <i>can he play shortstop? >>
I don't know- but if not, he'll have plenty of time in about a week and a half to start learning the position in time for next spring. >>
pretty generous estimate for life expectancy there, Dr. Boopotts.
that's poignant stuff.....and sums the postseason up perfectly for the other clubs now on vacation.
<< <i>I just saw that the reported attendance was 47,000. Is this possible? I have no idea how big the new Yankee Stadium is, but is it so mammoth that 47,000 can squeeze in there and there can still be that many empty seats? >>
It is embarrassing to watch the Baltimore or San Fransisco crowds (for example) and then the Yankees crowd. I put the blame on the fact that the avg Joe has been priced out. $1,100 "legend seats"? WTF is that? The regular folks that can fork over $50 are stuck way in the back, and the atmosphere around home plate (the part which can be seen & heard on TV) looks like a damn Chamber of commerce meet up. The people that are there are on their phones half the time...quite embarrassing. But the Yankees can only blame themselves. They priced the average guy out of the park. Now the nation gets to see empty seats.
Here's a story highlighting the problem:
NEW YORK – Gone are mystique and aura, the two temptresses of the Bronx, who blessed old Yankee Stadium with kismet and joy and brilliant baseball. In their stead are apathy and malaise, a couple of hags from Yonkers. They embody the new Yankee Stadium, a sarcophagus if ever there was one: no matter how gorgeous and ornate the outside, it remains filled with lifelessness. No wonder Game 2 of the ALCS featured thousands of empty seats, like Game 1 before it, and like the do-or-die Game 5 of the ALDS, too. New Yorkers understand a fraud when they see it. They pay for expensive seats, drink overpriced beers, buy exorbitant merchandise and fund a $200 million joke, a team that for the second straight game couldn’t score a measly run off the Detroit Tigers’ Nos. 3 and 4 starting pitchers. These Yankees earned every last boo. It wasn’t just the ushers instructed to fill in empty seats so the crowd looked better on TV. The players can tell, too. “This is a very easy place to play now,” Tigers outfielder Quintin Berry said. “Coming from Oakland, the fans there were so rowdy. It was easier to come here.” Oakland Coliseum, where tarps cover the upper deck, more electric than Yankee Stadium. Every other playoff stadium filled to capacity, and Yankee Stadium with entire sections empty, thousands of unsold tickets, even ones as cheap as $15 through resellers.
<< <i>Go Tigers! >>
You have to be happy with a 3-0 lead!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
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<< <i>Go Tigers! >>
You have to be happy with a 3-0 lead! >>
Never ever comfortable but happy just the same. The Yankee bats have to wake up sometime. I hope it's next April. MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......