Yankee Stadium, RIP (the concert is Nov 9th)

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don't understand why me a taxpayer still ends up paying
for yankee stadium. when i don't care about baseball
and these guys are making HUGE amounts of maoney

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Could only be a comment from some talentless "artist" who moved to Brooklyn within the last year (likely from Ohio)......or a Met fan.

The Yankees are sell outs. They already made mass profits in that stadium. Is the new one just to increase corporate buyers? Since when does the average tax payer have to bail out George Steinbrenner for a new stadium? Old one worked fine even today.

Go Red Sox!

9:28... kill yourself (in brooklyn)

well you know the city council is getting breaks
on boxes and season tix
it was in the times? last week

9 34p

toilet log

fuck the Yankees.

and Yankee Stadium, for that matter.

Yankees SUCK!

midwesterners and transplants, voice your opinions now!

as someone actually born and raised in brooklyn, yr not supposed to be yankees fans. ive been to the stadium maybe 10x...mainly over the last few years for work and i always hated it. its a bitch to get to, the fans are slimeball gumbas and the yankees suck.

fuck this place.

daft punk will be playing the final concert. miles benjamin anthony robinson is opening.

its the same scam as here in pittsburgh the little people have to pay for these god awful taxpayer funded sports stadiums so that the rich can eat a higher grade of caviar and idiots that are obsessed with sports can have their ticket prices subsidized by the public.

ALL OF YOU MOVE BACK TO OHIO

But isn't it all worth it if I get to dine in style in a luxury box whilst watching the Yankees/entertaining corporate clients?

"it's a bitch to get to"

The 4 and D trains go right to the stadium.

LET'S GO METS

LETS GO METS.

my first time at yankee stadium was to see the pope back in april... it took divine intervention to get me to enter that cesspool.

...and the Yankeess win it!

yeah! sports are stupid! all people who don't like sports are smarter than people who do! if i see another one of those comments i am going to move to brooklyn and rape someone.

The reason Yankee Stadium and Shea are getting torn down is their lack of revenue generating luxury boxes. Who buys most of those kind of big money season tickets in this city? The big money wall street types. Ruh roh!

Lets go Mets? First place! Oh yeah, in the wild card. A big game and a half ahead! Playing the Cubs this week! Ruh roh!

Having a concert as the last event at Yankee Stadium is a completely shitty move (almost as bad as Krist bailing on Flipper). The last event at Yankee Stadium should be a goddam motherfucking BASEBALL GAME. Kind of makes a mockery of the whole "last night festivities" thay had tonight, doesn't it?

That said, all the festivities are pretty much bullshit anyway, since THERE IS NO REASON TO TEAR YANKEE STADIUM DOWN.

Good night.

HAHAHAHA

A Mets fan calling YANKEE STADIUM a shithole? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life. I went to that dumpster in Queens that you call a stadium back in 2000 to see my Yankees anally ravage your Mets, and it's fucking disgusting there. Plus, if you think Yankees fans are Goombas, Mets fans are all bridge-and-tunnel trash - especially their skanky, greasy/curly-haired, orange female fans.

The original Yankee stadium was dismantled in the '70s. Why be nostalgic about a 30 year old stadium?

I can't believe the money I earn working 50-60 hours a weeks is going to bail out these retarded stadiums. So wonderful being an american citizen in nyc. Why doesn't Stein brenner pay out of pocket?

Because Stein can't pay $1.3 billion or however much it's costing out of his own pocket.... That's more money than the Yankees are even worth as a franchise.

Regardless, as a NYC tax payer, why the fuck should I have to pay for someone's hobby!? It's just a game, and not everyone likes said game, and it's not a federally mandated game.... pisses me off

"The original Yankee stadium was dismantled in the '70s. Why be nostalgic about a 30 year old stadium?"

Because home plate was the same place it was when Babe Ruth went up to bat. No more.

And to answer all your questions about your tax money paying for blah blah blah--because America is a socialist country. Did you not read the news last week?

"Kind of makes a mockery of the whole "last night festivities" thay had tonight, doesn't it?"

Exactly and the 'festivities' were brutal and embarrassing as a Yankee fan. They hired actors to impersonate the famous dead ones? Thank fuck i didn't catch Gehrig and the Babe's fake trot out. The whole night was clumsy overkill with soaring bullshit even if you can try to forget for a second that everyone knows this is more of the same 'wealth being redistributed upward' boondoggle that stadium are. Socialist alright, when we need to save capitalism from itself again.

12:52 was just fired from Lehman Bros. and is bitter over his lack of 2009 luxury box action.

All of you faggots who scream "HURR SPORTS ARE DUMB" can go suck a fucking fat ass cock. If you are a male and you don't like sports you should kill yourself since you are a pussy.

LETS GO METS.

baseball is fine with me as long as i don't have to pay
for a stadium for a game i have no interest in
and as for going back to ohio
I was BORN in BROOKLYN in 1959

^^That's nice, Gramps. Now take your meds and lie down for your nap.

I think not youngster.
why don't you suck my ass instead

After the World Series is over, the Mets & Yankees should have a farewell subway series for the fans.

Anon 11:39 PM

It's so funny to joke about rape. Fuck you asshole. Move back to Ohio.

WILL BERMAN is playing the last show at the old stadium and the first show at the new one. MGMT is opening for both.

Mets Suck! Phillies Rule!

Up 1.5 games and will increase the division lead tonight!

ps - Shea is a fitting dump for a bunch of losers like the Mets!

Bunch of crappy comments. I like the Yankees and indie rock. I was there last night and the whole night was wonderful, a great send off to one of the greatest stadiums in history.
See you at MBV tomorrow!

Tears of laughter are steaming down my cheek, thank you Anon 7:46.

As for the final show at Yankee Stadium...

(fingers crossed painfully tight) Please be Vampire Weekend, Please be Vampire Weekend, Please be Vampire Weekend

An appropriate send off for you douche bag Yankee fans.

Q: NAME THE ONLY MUSICIAN TO PLAY YANKEE STADIUM, SHEA STADIUM *and* GIANT STADIUM.

Yankee Stadium has better baseball history, but Shea has better music history (Beatles, Clash/Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Police, Stones/Living Color, Elton John & Eric Clapton)

Oct 7th 2008 is the scheduled CD release date for
"The Clash: Live At Shea Stadium", a recording of the band's second night opening for The Who at Shea in 1982. The original recordings were unearthed by Joe Strummer while packing for a move.

Eddie Layton

the best non-baseball event at a ballpark?
Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey 7/12/79

During the event, rowdy fans surged onto the field, and a near riot ensued. It would ultimately prove to be one of the most notable promotional ideas and one of the most infamous since "Ten Cent Beer Night" in Cleveland in 1974.

Local radio station WDAI went to an all-disco format, and fired popular disc jockey Steve Dahl. Dahl was subsequently hired by rival station WLUP. He created a mock organization called "The Insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army" to oppose disco, in which Dahl and partner Garry Meier regularly mocked and heaped scorn on disco records on the air.

Dahl and Meier, in conjunction with Mike Veeck (son of then Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck) devised a promotion that involved people bringing unwanted disco music records to the game in exchange for an admission fee of 98¢, representing the station's location on the dial, 97.9. The records would be collected, placed in a large crate in center field, and blown up by Dahl.

White Sox management was hoping for an additional crowd of 5,000, but a total of 75,000+ turned up instead. Thousands of people were climbing walls and fences in order to get into Comiskey Park, and others were locked out.

White Sox TV announcers Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall commented freely on the "strange people" wandering aimlessly in the stands. Mike Veeck recalled that the pre-game air was heavy with the scent of marijuana. When the crate on the field was filled with records, staff stopped collecting them from spectators, who soon realized that long-playing (LP) records were shaped like frisbees. They began to throw their records from the stands during the game, and the records often struck other fans. The fans also threw beer and even firecrackers from the stands.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fEtF9NKfc

10:26pm
i like your train of thought, but NOT the late, great Eddie Layton.

Tho he did play a mean-ass organ for the Yankees, Knicks & Rangers. This made him the answer to a popular trivia question among NY sports fans: "Q: Who was the only person to play for the Yankees, Knicks, and Rangers? A: Eddie Layton."

uhhhmmm so is bruce actually playing this thing or what?