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For the second year in a row over the Fourth of July weekend I was able to watch the Yankees play in their new ball park vs. the Toronto Blue Jays. Here are some sights and sounds that you might find interesting, not so interesting, and/or just a little strange, as I did.
1. Last year was the first year for New York in the "new Yankee Stadium". This year I paid HALF the amount for tickets for exactly the same section and row of seats as I did a year ago. Do you think prices for the opening season at the new place were jacked up a bit?
2. I'm not a beer drinker, but would you pay $9.00 for a cold beer?
3. You know how every stadium, regardless of sport, has some variety of music playing at strategic points in the contest? When Brett Gardner hit a grand slam and the crowd was jazzed up, the Stadium music director started blasting "The Venga Bus" and the 48,500 got even more juiced. Who would have thought that song would do it?
4. Young kids were selling bottles of water outside the stadium for $1. Stupid me, I didn't buy any and ended up paying $5 for just a little larger bottle inside the big house. I could have had five bottles instead of one.
5. The game we saw was the second in a three-game series with Toronto and the visitors took the opening game. Fortunately, the Yanks won the game we attended plus the final of the three to take the series, 3-2. How badly would a team named the Yankees feel if they lost their big holiday weekend series to a team from another country? That wouldn't be very patriotic.
6. One of the great things about being at a baseball game in New York is that it brings together so many different types of people. There was a young couple (20s) in front of me and the guy had a big tattoo of "718" the length of his forearm, signifying either Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx or Staten Island, while behind us were two older couples from Canada, cheering for the visitors, and they had strong accents from "across the pond." One lady kept asking the other throughout the game, "Now is this guy a designated hitter?" I think she was trying to act like she was into it. Lady, there is only one DH per team, OK?
7. It seems like the tradition of the Yankees' ground crew stopping their freshening up of the infield to march in rhythm and execute shaping the letters to "YMCA" during the seventh inning stretch has lost its popularity. We need to think of a new routine for them.
8. On the other side of the coin, there is nothing like the original, scratchy recording of Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" to salute those who provide public service to NYC and our country in the middle of the seventh inning.
9. When are we going to stop having idiots pop a surprise marriage proposal to their significant other over the big screen TV during games? I'm waiting for one woman to reach back, slap the guy, and stomp on out.
Folks, as Harry Carey used to say, you just can't beat good old fun at the ballpark.
1. Last year was the first year for New York in the "new Yankee Stadium". This year I paid HALF the amount for tickets for exactly the same section and row of seats as I did a year ago. Do you think prices for the opening season at the new place were jacked up a bit?
2. I'm not a beer drinker, but would you pay $9.00 for a cold beer?3. You know how every stadium, regardless of sport, has some variety of music playing at strategic points in the contest? When Brett Gardner hit a grand slam and the crowd was jazzed up, the Stadium music director started blasting "The Venga Bus" and the 48,500 got even more juiced. Who would have thought that song would do it?
4. Young kids were selling bottles of water outside the stadium for $1. Stupid me, I didn't buy any and ended up paying $5 for just a little larger bottle inside the big house. I could have had five bottles instead of one.
5. The game we saw was the second in a three-game series with Toronto and the visitors took the opening game. Fortunately, the Yanks won the game we attended plus the final of the three to take the series, 3-2. How badly would a team named the Yankees feel if they lost their big holiday weekend series to a team from another country? That wouldn't be very patriotic.
6. One of the great things about being at a baseball game in New York is that it brings together so many different types of people. There was a young couple (20s) in front of me and the guy had a big tattoo of "718" the length of his forearm, signifying either Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx or Staten Island, while behind us were two older couples from Canada, cheering for the visitors, and they had strong accents from "across the pond." One lady kept asking the other throughout the game, "Now is this guy a designated hitter?" I think she was trying to act like she was into it. Lady, there is only one DH per team, OK?
7. It seems like the tradition of the Yankees' ground crew stopping their freshening up of the infield to march in rhythm and execute shaping the letters to "YMCA" during the seventh inning stretch has lost its popularity. We need to think of a new routine for them.
8. On the other side of the coin, there is nothing like the original, scratchy recording of Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" to salute those who provide public service to NYC and our country in the middle of the seventh inning.
9. When are we going to stop having idiots pop a surprise marriage proposal to their significant other over the big screen TV during games? I'm waiting for one woman to reach back, slap the guy, and stomp on out.
Folks, as Harry Carey used to say, you just can't beat good old fun at the ballpark.
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