This is an issue we touched on earlier in the year, but it was something that was painfully obvious during the ALDS, especially in Game 5: The crowd at Yankee Stadium sucks.
Never was this more evident in the bottom of the 9th with the Yankees trailing by a run, or with Jorge Posada’s last ABs in the pinstripes…no standing, no cheers, no hype…nothing.
We don’t mean to imply that EVERYBODY who goes to the Stadium is like this, but the overall atmosphere is severely lacking. How many times do you turn on a game and the seats on the first and third base sides are half full? The place is dead the majority of the time. The ALDS was a prime example of this.
It’s sad to see.
It’s a 5-star experience!
82 Comments
Michael Moore October 9, 2011 21:00
#OccupyYankeeStadium
Johnathan October 9, 2011 21:01
My dad is a season ticket holder, and gave my brother and I both opportunities to purchase his playoff tickets for him because of the insane prices. We both passed. This is what happens when you price out the real fans. And we aren’t rich, my dad has season tickets in the upper deck, and the playoffs this year were retarded. In the past we always bought come postseason. That upper deck was rockin’ in the 2001 World Series.
Charlie October 9, 2011 21:38
2001 World Series was off the chain.
Edchiro October 11, 2011 08:16
MLB sets the post season ticket prices.
John Henry October 9, 2011 21:01
Our stadium is always packed…no big deal.
Kevin October 10, 2011 00:03
You’re stadium has as many seats as a Little League field
The Grammar Policeman October 10, 2011 10:59
The correct word should be YOUR. YOU’RE is a contraction of YOU and ARE. YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
John Henry October 10, 2011 15:35
You’re mother give good jobs.
The Grammar Policeman October 10, 2011 21:32
Your team collapsed.
Pete October 11, 2011 09:52
You’re right!
Security at Yankee Stadium October 9, 2011 21:08
We’ve been instructed to remove all of the so called “real fans” so that our real fans can enjoy the total Yankee Stadium visiting experience. An experience that includes, shopping, sushi, steak, and sucking when it matters most.
The idea guy October 9, 2011 21:09
Maybe the Yankees could set homeless people on fire between innings, or have bum fights in the bullpens. That would get the crowd going.
Otis "Hobo Harry" Jones October 10, 2011 10:35
I will fight vagabonds and get lit on fire for spare change, but don’t forget my hobo option Mr Levine.
Rufus The Stunt Bum October 11, 2011 08:11
So not funny…
Matzo October 9, 2011 21:12
The joint is a mall.
Not a rich person October 9, 2011 21:13
How much are they for ALDS/ALCS tickets? I’ve never priced them out because as the saying goes “If you have to ask you can’t afford them”
Also to add to the ‘cheese and wine crowd’ theory, I do think the day game crowd adds to that factor. Yeah I know the Yankees record in day games, but we need the younger,drunker more energized crowd to show up, not the Wall Street Journal reading day time business cubicle jerk MFers.
potatoes October 10, 2011 03:33
Hey! don’t discriminate against the Wall Street Journal!
It kicks the shit out of the New York Times, which btw, are part owners of the faggot red sox!!!
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:14
You have a point about the journal. The news reporting is second to none.
If only they would do something about the nazi’s on the editorial staff.
Call me Crazy October 10, 2011 10:05
…but I’d pay playoff-ticket prices to see a Krugman/Rove fight to the death. Especially if the winner got fed to sharks afterward.
potatoes October 10, 2011 11:01
It took me a second to realize that the loser would already be dead from the fight, so i approve of this.
LeonS October 10, 2011 22:38
Yeah all that Krugman jerk does is be right more than any one else. What an asshole.
http://www.hamilton.edu/news/polls/pundit
Pete C. October 11, 2011 05:23
You’re right about Krugman, besides I’d like to curb stomp fat Carl myself.
Secret Muslim October 11, 2011 10:43
Right… Because he loved the bailout before he hated it. lol. I love the minimally informed, keeps retards like me in power!
Pete C. October 11, 2011 19:49
I thought Krugman said we needed a bailout, and was glad the country was getting one. But that the money was going to the wrong places.
Maybe I’m minimally informed, but then I’m not the one calling myself a retard.
Manager without braces says October 11, 2011 15:43
Krugman was right about what?? He thinks obama didn’t spend enough on the stimulous (aka payoff to politically connected cronies). Krugman is the high priest bridge troll of Keynesian economics which has been a bigger failure than Swisher in the post season. They should give him a Noble Prize for being a left wing drone disguised as an economist.
Pete C. October 11, 2011 19:45
One of the biggest problems with the stimulus was, the white house larded it with tax cuts in order to get the republicans to vote for it. So it was no money for projects, love that term “shovel ready”. Too much of it went the aforementioned tax cuts and another chunk went to the states because they were hemorrhaging red ink too.
I’m not defending the President, as far as I’m concerned he’s fucked up by the numbers from the get go.
Especially when he and the rest of D.C. kiss wall streets ass like they do.
Now, forgive my ignorance, but isn’t the way Keynesian economics works , simplified,
when times are good the govt. raises revenue, and supposedly saves it for bad times.
And when bad times come the govt. cuts taxes and spends on things like infrastructure projects, to keep people in jobs, until the economy picks up again?
If I’m wrong I apologize, but if I’m right what the fuck is wrong with what I just described?
Manager without braces says October 11, 2011 15:37
I think the common sense constitutionalism of the ediditorial staff makes up for some of the Commie reporters.
Pete C. October 11, 2011 19:30
You know you may have had something there except your “common sense constitutionalism” from the editors was inbred.
It’s funny how most of the people I know of their ilk feel that way because, they or any of their acquaintances only contact with any physical labor of any kind is when they deal with the help. To use a baseball metaphor they were born on 3rd base thinking they hit the triple.
The reason I bring up the labor part of this, is I’ve been a tool and diemaker for the last 38 years, and have seen the denizens of the wall street journal editorial page espouse the very policies that have gutted the middle class, destroyed our manufacturing base, and excuse the corporate communism that’s going on right now.
So maybe your right I shouldn’t have called them Nazis,(although Rupert Murdoch does own the paper now) I like that thing about the corporate communism better.
The way it is October 9, 2011 21:22
they’ve priced out the real fans & made yankee stadium a place to conduct business dinners.
painfully obvious since it’s inception.
DJ3K October 9, 2011 21:32
How do you expect the team to pay for the twilight of my career?
DormantUlcer October 9, 2011 21:51
The crowd went insane for Posada for his last at-bats during the regular season. Shows the difference in demographic come playoffs.
Then again, I’m sorry to be the asshole in this, but the crowd in baseball really shouldn’t make much a difference as it does in other sports. In baseball, you can’t make the offense jump offsides, or distract during a free throw attempt. Crowd noise and momentum have about as much a factor in baseball as heart and raw adrenaline.
Russ October 10, 2011 02:41
Totally agree, if these are professionals they shouldn’t need people screaming, cheering, or being loud to get ready for a huge game like any post season game. It looks good for the fans and nice on TV but I am sure the players really don’t care, they are focused on the next play or at bat to be bothered with crowd noise.
Little Leaguer October 10, 2011 03:35
That’s right. It’s me, the pitcher, and the third base coach. I didn’t hear my parents screaming until i struck out.
Brett Pedroia October 11, 2011 01:04
That must have been a sad moment for you. Why don’t you come into my van and help yourself to some candy?
Little Leaguer October 12, 2011 02:08
Touche
Jake Harper October 12, 2011 02:08
TOUCHE!!!!
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:20
Yeah, all due respect, if my choice was to go to work and be surrounded by 50+ thousand maniacs screaming for me to do something good, or a fucking morgue where the attendees were more worried about who’s going to see them, and should they leave before or after the 7th inning stretch, gotta say I’d prefer the former.
Russ October 10, 2011 15:21
Screaming fans are all well and good, but as a professional if you need them to know its a big spot in a game, say down by one two outs with the bases loaded, and you need the screaming and the yelling to make you care about getting a hit then you shouldn’t be on the team. Its not like the crowd noise is going to distract the pitcher, or the fielder to give you an advantage.
Pete C. October 11, 2011 05:26
I didn’t say I needed them to understand the situation.
I said, if I had my druthers I’d play for a team that had an excited crowd.
Anthony Montana October 9, 2011 21:55
In America, first you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the women.
55 October 9, 2011 21:58
You want $200M to burn? Deal with it.
And the stadium doesn’t look like that, despite everything.
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:22
Yeah, it does look like a mall, a really nice mall where they have great memorabilia, that’s clean, and has big wide walkways. But it’s still a mall.
Harbinger of Bad News October 9, 2011 22:02
And on top of this, Bald Vinny is leaving the Bleacher Creatures. Probably for good.
Howie Mandel October 11, 2011 01:06
I might replace him. After all, all bald men look the same. So what do you say? DEAL or NO DEAL?
nervous contestant October 11, 2011 19:47
Yes! Wait, no! Uhhhhh…
Jorge Posada's Butler October 9, 2011 22:14
The real fans are busy building mansions. The fake fans show up at the stadium.
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:23
It’s because they’re going to the games that they can’t build their mansions.
Bud Selig October 9, 2011 22:20
Look, I don’t care what you have to do or who you get to pay for it, but you owe me $100 million each and every year whether you win or lose so stop whining and get me the money.
Jeffrey Loria October 9, 2011 22:22
Are those stingy Steinbrenner kids late with their revenue “sharing” again Boss? I have a payment due on my Tuscany villa this month so they damn well better get to it.
David Glass October 9, 2011 22:24
LOL at poor little Jeffrey, with only one Italian villa. I use the Yankees’ money to buy me a private jet, a second yacht, and a diamond stickpin that used to belong to Idi Amin.
Joe Torre October 9, 2011 22:48
It was such a difference seeing the fans in Detroit, with the towels waving, everyone cheering. I went to game one of the ALDS expecting the experience to be amazing, I got floor seats and it was a bit expensive but it was a nice experience, but nothing compared to years before where the fans were amazing.
Correction October 11, 2011 01:06
Don’t you mean ‘diapers waving’ ?
Mike Ax isa October 10, 2011 00:03
I was in the Legends seats, cause RAB pays me mad $$ to link to other guys storylines…suck on it NoMaas
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:25
Ever notice: ax isa, asskissa.
Mike Ax isa October 11, 2011 11:52
Ever notice: Pete C on his knees hungrily devouring the jizz from me
Pete C. October 12, 2011 10:35
You sure you don’t have me confused with binny k, or joe the pollak? Because I’m an old fat, bald guy. I’m flattered, but your just not my type.
See you are a pussy, and in order to be my type, you need to have a pussy.
Why don’t you run along to rab and play with the other misfits.
Mike Ax isa October 14, 2011 22:33
I like old, fat, bald guys….open mouth bitch
Nick Swisher fans October 10, 2011 01:53
You’re judging by 2 playoffs in 3 years ?
SMALL SAMPLE SIZE !!!
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:27
Speaking of small, that’s how you came up in the play-offs.
Russ October 11, 2011 12:26
sick Burn!
Sherman McCoy October 10, 2011 02:37
I took a wrong turn on my way out of the Stadium and ended up in… The Bronx!?!?!
Laura Posada October 10, 2011 03:39
My tits would attract a rowdier crowd at The Stadium!
Pete C. October 10, 2011 05:27
true.
Clara Rivera October 10, 2011 15:43
That’s not saying much.
Pete C. October 11, 2011 05:27
Just enough.
Carlos Beltran October 10, 2011 06:32
Maybe I can draw some real fans.
rocky dijon October 10, 2011 08:41
all you had to do was tune into game 5 of Phillies/Cards and you could not hear the announcers over the crowd….that’s been missing at the new Yankee stadium….no denial.
The Truth October 10, 2011 09:08
No Kidding the corporate assholes come out for Boston & the playoffs. Hell the new Yankee Stadium has become like the Forum in LA. I had a guy tell me not to yell bad things at Youkilis. Honestly who the fuck are these people & how did they infest the stadium?
Hobo Harry October 10, 2011 10:55
If you are half as annoying in real life as you are on this site, I am not surprised someone told you to shut the fuck up.
The Truth October 10, 2011 12:58
You must be one of the wine & Cheese crowd but with a fucked up name like Hobo Harry. Or is it Homo Harry?
Hobo Harry October 10, 2011 15:52
I do like some Ripple in a bag, and I make my own Fromunda cheese!
Charles Montgomery Burns October 10, 2011 13:41
Oh poppycock NoMaas!
I found my most recent trip to the ball yard in New York quite hospitable. Oh look how far we’ve come since the days I went to see Christy Mathewson hurl the sphere at the Polo Grounds!
Brian Cashman's Vocabulary October 10, 2011 15:41
Its a process. Due dilegence. God help the rest of baseball.
AnthonyD October 10, 2011 17:21
DS tickets were ~10% more than my season tickets. I didn’t feel “priced out”.
The single biggest issue is the tickets that are $250 (season price) and up. These are nearly all corporate tickets, they are what you see on television and are the focus of what everyone sees when they are at the stadium. The Legends seats (and now Champions seats) while a cash flow boom, are miserable for overall fan morale.
Good times October 10, 2011 18:06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SPSJpNyySQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Listen to that crowd. Do the guys at 0:14 look like corporate douchebags to you? That was when fans were fans.
Jon Papelbon October 11, 2011 13:09
my retarded glare is never affected by you yankee fan pussies.
Robert Andino October 11, 2011 19:54
They don’t have to. I already fucked your shit up.
Michael P. October 11, 2011 20:17
I’m not a wine and cheese guy but lets be real here. I didn’t hear much complaining about the fans inability to “will” the team to wins when they led the league in comebacks in 09. Yeah the old stadium was louder. The Yankees still had many memorable collapses from 01 till it was knocked down.
Awesome October 11, 2011 21:13
i miss this yankee stadium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdOTnH41UWY
rocky dijon October 14, 2011 00:19
that Yankees Stadium is dead and gone and this new one will never be that one…we know that now for sure…
Asshat Hero October 17, 2011 00:10
Ohh man. I was at that game. Biggest celebration that I’ve ever been a part of. Lol.. yep that 2-2 to pitch to Tino still looks pretty freakin close to me.
Lou October 25, 2011 13:28
Go to a game if you are going to get on the crowd. Don’t for a second you can get a feel for the stadium based on what you saw from your living room. The Upper Deck was rocking. Every Yankee at bat from the bottom of the 4th on the upper deck was on their feet. Hope was not lost until A-Rod stepped to the plate with 2 outs in the 9th, but not until Cano’s broken bat line drive hung up a little too long did the crowd deflate.
And now for the required blogger joke:
Maybe if you weren’t trapped in your Mother’s basement you would actually have a feel for what the stadium was like.