Yankees up 2-1 in the 7th. Runners on 2nd and 3rd for the Orioles with 1 out. Kuroda on the mound. Baltimore’s Chris Davis at the plate. Two strikes. Kuroda really needs the strike out. He gets it! Strike three! The crowd goes wild!
Yankees up 2-1 in the 7th. Runners on 2nd and 3rd for the Orioles with 1 out. Kuroda on the mound. Baltimore’s Chris Davis at the plate. Two strikes. Kuroda really needs the strike out. He gets it! Strike three! The crowd goes wild!
49 Comments
Thom April 30, 2012 22:47
it’s monday…might as well charge the rich asses who dont have a job and can go to the game
Negrodamus April 30, 2012 22:52
Mitt Romney’s kids were quite excited by this game of base ball. Not quite as classy as their traditional cricket match or drassage horse competition as there were quite a few of the poors around the stadium.
Dude April 30, 2012 22:59
Shut your political babble.
Negrodamus May 1, 2012 00:04
Asshole, it was a commentary on the type of crowd in the stadium nowadays. Have you been to that place? Have you been on the first floor at the seating area entrances? It’s like a fucking polo match down there. Fucking vomit-inducing. Nobody there gives a flying shit about the game.
Former NYer May 1, 2012 02:27
You think this is a yankee stadium problem? I remember when the movie Wall Street came out and the whole city was puking that “yuppies” were taking over. Where you see the 200 odd Starbucks used to be neighborhood-specific stores owned by mom and pop’s trying to raise a family. Y was always a beacon of commerce but it had a soul and a hard working middle class. The city died when they cleaned the graffiti off the trains. Ironically, when the city had a heart beating soul – no one would go to Bronx! The LES was jacked up with Hells Angels – now it’s cleaner than Arod’s bleached bung. The City only cares about money and the Steingrabbers fed right into it’s soulless clutches.
Negrodamus May 1, 2012 23:58
The problem is they’ve priced out most actual fans. From my experience the people down below are all there for a status/event thing or because they had corporate tickets. They’re not actually there because they’re fans. Seats down there were always on the pricey side even in the old Stadium, but in this new one it just completely prices out a huge portion of actual fans. Hence the empty seats.
Former NYer May 2, 2012 04:08
My middle class family had four box seats, eight rows behind Yankee dugout from 1981-2006. By 2004, we were priced out and would have to sell the playoff tickets to pay for our share of the season tickets. I have all tickets where the face value is EIGHT DOLLARS a SEAT!!! By 1996, I recall it was Thirty-Five and then it was shooting up ten dollars a seat every year. It certainly is completely relative to other seats but I do remember the year 2000 when my salary couldn’t justify buying it. I sat in those seats when the Yanks got no hit by the Astros and it turned out ironically the last game I saw. We were priced out and when the brochure came for our exact seats in the new stadium. I should have saved all those receipts. But it was close to a quarter million dollars up front.
Michael Moore May 2, 2012 11:26
Affording those seats in the 2000′s? Middle class my ass!
The Truth May 1, 2012 09:50
That’s right brother. Let’s keep our man in office so we can continue to complain of racism while we get all the handouts!
E-Thug May 1, 2012 10:32
Yeah lets keep assuming someone’s sign in and using lame ass lines like it’s all whiteys fault. Mom more lemonade and can I order a pizza?
internet TOUGH guy May 1, 2012 12:16
You are on my turf, you best step holmes.
TSJC May 1, 2012 15:49
I cut nigga’s for less.
Jim Leyritz's Cellmate April 30, 2012 23:00
No excuses. Fuck this new stadium.
The battle rages on... April 30, 2012 23:03
Kuroda threw a pitch!
It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Chris Davis K’d!
internet TOUGH guy April 30, 2012 23:29
I’ll make you taste my ass if you don’t go to the next game. Don’t mess around. I once bitch slapped Chuck Norris and he apologized to me afterwards.
Superfoot May 1, 2012 05:20
Norris is a pussy.
BEXY May 1, 2012 15:50
WHERE IS MY BURRITO!??!
The binder says May 1, 2012 00:15
Its the orioles.
internet TOUGH guy May 1, 2012 00:16
I know some people don’t show up because they are scared of me, but I promise to not crack your skull if you show up.
Joe Páwlikowski May 1, 2012 15:50
Don’t take this the wrong way but I have a crush on you.
Nick santoro May 1, 2012 00:27
Frankie, look at this! Where’s this guy going to land, on the fuckin fairway?
Dog May 1, 2012 00:55
It just shows you how soulless the steinbrenners are that they are happy with this game environment.
Too busy May 1, 2012 01:25
watching New York’s other teams lose.
Mel Hall's Soul-Glo May 1, 2012 04:03
This is absolute gold. This video was taken on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. Yanks were playing Tigers and some D-bag Sox fan comes to Stadium in Sox hat and talks smack all night. It did not end well for her. The vid is pretty short, the real fun starts at about the 1:10 mark, then pay really close attention at around 1:28.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXiQd_Jhubg&feature=youtu.be
Marshmellow man May 1, 2012 05:25
I bet her boyfriend wished she’d go down that hard on him.
Joe Páwlikowski May 1, 2012 15:55
I wish Bexy would go down on me.
BEXY May 2, 2012 10:55
PUT A BURRITO THERE STUD MUFFIN.
A bleacher creature May 1, 2012 07:53
Even our section has gotten lame. For Christ’s sake bald Vinny is our leader and our bodega across the street was shut down.
Duh May 1, 2012 09:16
But the key to all of this is that those seats may be empty, but they are SOLD. Thus, nobody cares. Sure, the concessions might suffer, but that’s about it. Probably not a sellout last night with the crappy weather, but those seats you see on TV are bought and paid for.
CJ May 1, 2012 09:21
And your point is what?
Duh May 1, 2012 09:27
Um … should I write slower so you can better understand? Let’s analyze the chain of events here: The original post was commenting (sarcastically, no less) on the fact that the stadium appears empty and soulless. Several other folks chimed in with their take on the subject. I then wrote a post explaining that while it may not look good on TV, it’s doubtful that the owners care much since those seats are sold. You see, empty but SOLD is a lot better than, say, empty and NOT SOLD. You understand that part, right?
So my “point”, simply, is that while us commoners go about complaining about the lack of noise, lack of soul, empty seats, ticket prices, concession prices, etc., the fact is that the people who own the stadium simply don’t care.
Is that clear enough for you now or should I bust out the crayons?
CJ May 1, 2012 09:37
Crayons.
Moshe Mandel May 1, 2012 09:53
Shabbos.
Amar'e Stoudemire May 1, 2012 10:01
Too busy punching glass.
Ritardi Losses:2 May 1, 2012 10:10
I blame the location. You are building a one billion dollar stadium. You are moving the location from the historic footprint anyway. Why build in the worst of the five boroughs? For 1B you could have easily put your lifeless mall in Manhattan. If I am looking at free tickets (which most of these corporate seats end up being, free handouts to employees or customers) there is no fucking way I am riding into the nasty Bronx to go to an April monday night game against the Orioles when it is forecast to be cold and raw. If you build a stadium for the upper crust, you dont build it in the Bronx. If you build it in the bronx you don’t build it for the rich.
Duh May 1, 2012 14:33
Yeah, surely they could have just razed a few blocks of high rises to put the stadium in Manhattan. Hell, why not just put it in Central Park, it’s such a waste of prime real estate!
Ritardi Losses:2 May 1, 2012 15:01
There was an option to build a pier onto the West side. It would have been awesome. You dont blow up years of history for the shit hole they built. It is a travesty and I am not surprised no one goes. The new stadium sucks.
PS you are the worst poster EVER!
Ki m Last May 1, 2012 15:54
LUMPS
The Truth May 1, 2012 10:35
I think the issue is even on the nights, Boston Tampa and Detroit for example, when the stadium should have a buzz and some passion it doesn’t. I am worried what will happen if this team isn’t competitive, which may come soon with Helmet Head Hal in charge.
Hank Steinbrenner May 1, 2012 10:49
Where’s the gin?
Hal Steinbrenner May 1, 2012 10:50
Muahahahahaha!!!
Mitt Romney May 1, 2012 11:34
A real businessman would pull out all the empty seats, sell them for scrap, and pocket the profit.
Obama May 1, 2012 15:52
Don’t let me run the stadium. It would be bankrupt in 3 months. Solyndra bitches.
Eduardo Núñez May 1, 2012 12:07
DA STADIUM WAS FUL BOT EBERYONE ON THOSE SEATS WEN TO LF WALL TU BE CLOSER TO ME AN SEE ME PLEY
I LOB DA FANS
Mark Teixeira May 1, 2012 12:32
I’m a bum!
Matzo May 1, 2012 15:54
Good thing they’ve taken all that profit from those sold seats and reinvested into the team and the draft. Always fun seeing Garcia last 2 innings every start and Nunez playing 5x a week. And hear about this mythical 189 million threshold like it fucking matters when they are printing money.
Hughes May 1, 2012 16:21
Don’t forget me. 4 2/3 tonight, 101 pitches, 8 hits. Not too bad.
Random Movie Line May 1, 2012 18:28
Where’s the booze? Flowin’ like mud around here…
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