In the sixth inning of Sunday afternoon's Phillies-Yankees game, Yankees' first baseman Mark Teixeira hit a broken bat home run off of Phillies' ace Cole Hamels. Now, if this isn't enough proof that the new Yankee Stadium was designed more for slow-pitch softball than big leaguers, I don't know what is. Hamels said post-game that, "Most of the time you hear a broken bat, its a pop-up." Very true Cole, but in the new Yankee Stadium those pop ups are now home runs.
Yesterday, the Yankees young and naive third baseman hit a game tying home run off of Phillies closer Brad Lidge. The ball went 2 rows deep to the right field porch that measures 314 feet. I'm not sure home much I believe this, "Well the wind patterns are different and they will change when the old Yankee Stadium is knocked down." Okay, and when they don't change, and these bloop homers change the outcomes of games still, then what? They built this big expensive stadium that has developed into nothing more than a joke. Not even the seventeen year-olds who were on Taiwan's Little League team made as big a joke of Lamade Stadium. As the year goes on, and these home run records are smashed we will be left wondering why they still even bother using wood bats, because we would be just as well off letting them do as the college kids do and swing aluminum bats. (Love this video of former Miami player and current Mets infielder Alex Cora crying.)
Anyways, some site news: The Natural went to the aforementioned Stadium for Friday's Phillies game against the Yanks. He will give us a "tell all" like Selena Roberts, but on the Stadium and not on Alex Rodriguez's weight gain from the time he was 16 to the time he was 17. He will let us know if the stadium is worth the 1.5 billion dollars that were spent.
Also, I'm debating starting some sort of "Asshole of the Week" section so stay tuned as I'm sure that will be completely objective like the rest of this tremendous blog.
In the time it took to write this post 7 more home runs just went out at Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees aren't even playing right now!
Later.
do some research, and you will find that the stadium is the EXACT same field dimensions as the old stadium. so was the old yankee stadium also built for softball?
ReplyDeleteSo you don't think the dimensions are shorter at the new place even though they are listed the same? Something is going on whether it be the way the wind blows or what but the stats don't lie... The place is a launching pad and that isn't even debatable.
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