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Submitted by mike b, Mar 9, 2007 02:13

my comment is, it's hard to tell what this sportswriter is writing about, much less what his point is in writing it. you can't get sentimental about a ball park? True, if you're as cynical as tim marchman apparently is. I stayed with him until the sentence in the last paragraph about "It's still always worth keeping in mind that when anyone involved in baseball starts talking a lot of bosh about history..." That's when I got lost. Who is he talking about? Himself? Baseball fans? Critics? Owners? And why is talking about history, tradition and heritage bosh? Sports contain these things, as part of their testament to the people who played them. Surely Citibank (I mention this in relation to re-naming the new Mets Stadium, as just one example of sports owners' selling out their heritage) shares nothing of this heritage, and the naming of the new field after a banking corporation was surely an obeisance to the mediocrity of not wanting to forego the extra bucks the "name your price" deal afforded the Mets owners. No, Yankee Stadium should unquestionabler stay as it is. The greatest baseball players who ever lived, amongst them Ruth, Di Maggio, Mantle and Maris, played and lived their lives at the "old" Yankee Stadium. Their memory, and where they played, is worth preserving. I advise sports writers to be unambiguous, please, when they state their case.

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if by " mostly what's gone on at Yankee Stadium is great baseball" you mean a bunch of gorssly overpaid... [MORE]	farbermiller	Feb 13, 2008 09:30
Stop your crying - this article is really an attack on "rich" George Steinbrenner. Sounds like mostly jealous sour grapes... [MORE]	Dave Alan	Apr 20, 2007 13:16
Were they supposed to not replace anything in the stadium since Ruth played there? Should we be sitting on the... [MORE]	simon	Apr 1, 2007 10:36
In addition to the structural changes that came with the renovation even the FIELD was changed. It was lowered by... [MORE]	Doug	Apr 9, 2007 00:15
TIM MARCHMAN'S ARTICLE, I FELT, IS ACCURATE AS FAR AS THE STADIUM REALLY NOT BEING THE STADIUM IT WAS. THE... [MORE]	MIKE IN CONNECTICUT	Mar 21, 2007 09:11
my comment is, it's hard to tell what this sportswriter is writing about, much less what his point is in...	mike b	Mar 9, 2007 02:13
I've been to "The Stadium" twice in my life, and will go there again before its gone. My trips were... [MORE]	Pete	Feb 19, 2007 00:14
The reason, as you say, Yankee Stadium is not the same stadium but it is the same field... it is... [MORE]	chris ippolito	Feb 12, 2007 23:44
Tim Marchman made some very good points in his article regarding Yankee Stadium, and I strongly agree with one in... [MORE]	Eddie	Feb 9, 2007 00:40
Mr. Marchman: You read for all the world like one of the authors of contemporary books about ballparks. And in the... [MORE]	Jim Meyer	Feb 8, 2007 20:07
i first visited yankee stadium in april of 2001 and i enjoyed it very much. i had 2 of my... [MORE]	joyce harper	Jan 31, 2007 13:27
The old park, the new park. I'm not old enough to remember what the park was like, but I am a... [MORE]	Brian D	Jan 19, 2007 20:17
Your facts are only half-true. A lot of what was there before is still there now. And don't forget that... [MORE]	Joe Pep	Jan 18, 2007 16:21
While it's true that the new Yankees stadium will feature an upper deck farther from the action than the House... [MORE]	Neil deMause	Jan 18, 2007 07:29
or does the upper deck start at AA? I can't remember [MORE]	rich	Mar 30, 2007 08:07
Egads! The thought of professional baseball wanting to charge higher prices to attend their events. Something that has happened since...oh...the... [MORE]	James	Jan 18, 2007 00:10
You hit it on the head, man -- very well put about how nobody mentions the '70s era-blandness of the... [MORE]	Greg	Jan 17, 2007 15:54
This is what I have been saying all along. If you are old enough to remember the original stadium, then... [MORE]	Mark Pierce	Jan 17, 2007 01:56
Nice article about the stadium. I never was at the 'old' stadium, but I never felt the history at the... [MORE]	Baseball Fan	Jan 24, 2007 02:04

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