The Gods Were There: Yankee Stadium 9/21/08
Appropriately, the baseball gods decreed that their hallowed heroes of this pastime of these great United States of America should not qualify for this year's playoffs.
The gods wished it: the national audience of this most reverent game witnessed it. The heart of baseball that is the New York Yankees and their devoted fans always deeply knew and felt this. A celebration of the game that goes beyond winning. A celebration at Yankee stadium in a non-playoff season. Who would have thunk!
There was Andy Pettite in a losing season receiving a standing ovation. There was Robbie Cano handing his gloves to an eight year old over the dug out. Before, you saw Reggie Jackson sitting in the stands with the fans, taking pictures.
And then there was Derek Jeter, who fittingly was the last Yankees batter, speaking to the crowd, telling them that memories are there so that the pride, tradition and victory which is the New York Yankees glory, could continue.
You felt the ghosts of Gherig and Ruth and the other greats.
And as Derek finished it so verily, "to the greatest fans in the world".
You gotta love this if you are a baseball fan.
As tonight the baseball gods signed it in the book of life.
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September 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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September 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
was the rebbe there?
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Alph,
In 2004, the Red Sox fans asked the Yankees to allow them to celebrate longer at the stadium, saying, “they earned it.” Geroge Steinbrenner allowed this to happen. It is called respect. It is called baseball. You are acting like the assholes you claim Yankee fans to be.
Respect, dude. Yankee Stadium was the venue of the greatest show ever put on in sports.
respect, dude.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
well i guess respect means tearing it down. if you want respect look to fenway where they’ve sacrificed revenue for history.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
shit has a point. & the new stadium has less seats than the original! what the fuck?
would you tear down the original 770 to build one that holds less people, but with fancier bathrooms?
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Silly ZoroIslamoYid, Seats are for Kids.
The new Yankees Stadium has tripled, quadrupled the number of skyboxes in the stadium, Making it a money generating machine for the Streinbrenners.
The House that Streinbrenner is building is a shrine to opulence and a slap in the face to baseball fans.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
class? is this what you call class “also noticeably absent from mention was former manager Joe Torre, who guided the Yankees to 12 straight playoffs and four World Series victories”?
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
Asshole, he’s in LA. And, were it reversed in 2004 the classless Red Sox brass would not allow Yankee fans to stay.
The issue is not whether the freakin stadium should be razed or not, the issue of the post was what happened on that night. read it again: drill it into your head.
Because the ghosts that would come out in the same sort of event at Fenway, would have been Yankee greats who were once with the Sux.
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Yiush,
Shitalphin’s right. You sound like one of those pathetic apologists who defend all things Yankees. This isn’t Mike and the Mad DOg.
The fact that there was no mention of Joe Torre goes a long way to show you that the Yankees Amazing run during the late 1990s was in spite of the classless Streinbrenner and not because of him. Brian Cashman should get the hell out of that cesspool while he can.