proud to be an american!
So, hpe youre following along. My friend and i began walking around th whole park. It’s an open concourse similar to what you find at many new stadiums accorss the coutry. nfortunately I felt a little too strong of a resembelance to Cellurar field, which sucks. But there’s a lot f nice perks to the plae too. All of the seating epecetp for the bleachers and te upperdeck are cushoined with cup holders. That’s sweet. And the bleachers are way beter than they were before becauce theyre closer to the field and at a lower eye level.
That’s one thing I miss. The old ankee stadium had a bowl kind of feel to it. You felt on top of the field like you were looking down at the players. Noew you feel like you’re looking them in te eye. Which I guess is better, but there’s something more intimidating abour having a bunch of fans staring and yelling down at you as opposed to looking you in the eye, That makes it hard to curse and yell.
The bombers won. and they bombed away, thanks in large part to mark teixiera who had two dingers, as wel as jeter and shellye motherufkinc duncan. so that was cool seeing the captains first hr in new yankee stadium as well as tex mashing.
Then the audio system broke down around the 7th innning stretch so ymca was not done and everthing was quite and boring. The starting lineup were subbed for a bunch of minor leagegures. My buddy and I walked around the aprk some more sitting in different areas to get a feel for the place (including the mohegan sun bar which is cool for like 4 mintus and then the techno music gets to you and you’re ready to go).
no gambling here, but nice views
aslo you cant see the ball well through the tinted glass and they restrautent blocks the view for te bleacher seats in the back. the tradeoff is that there’s a great bar and eati area smack in the middle of the outfield. prob some of the best views in the whole park.
in all, the digs are nice, but it’s ging to take some getting used to. I still feeel like i’m at another stadium and it just doesnt feel like home. Thats going to take a while. and eve though there’s a lot of conisistency between the old and the new, there are changes that may, with some hindsight, prove to be unfortunate decisions.
one things for sure. i’ll never again experience walking into a dank, low hanging ceilinged conrete mass only to enter an open expanse of grass and air. that was the old stadium. the new one opens up gradueally to you. from the great hall to the open concourse to your seat, you’re always in on the action. which is good, but it leaves a little awe by the wayside.
hope you were able to understand some of this. next time I’ll be writing about this year being the frist time I’,m playing fantasy baseball. so done’t miss it!!!
