i am really "frustrated" right now. i need a girlfriend or at least a friend with benifits. it sucks only getting it on rare occasions. and i think the worst part is the week or two imidiately following the opoprtunity when the sex is fresh in your mind. 
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In June of 2005 the New York Yankees announced plans to build a brand new Yankee Stadium that will open in April of 2009. This, in turn, means that the old Yankee Stadium will then be torn down. Yankee Stadium is one of the most hallowed grounds of baseball along with Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. To tear down the house that Ruth built would be, to all Yankee fans, as heinous a crime as ballplayers using steroids. I am not a Yankee fan though I am one of the biggest Red Sox fans you will ever find and therefore I hate the Yankees with a passion. I will also tell you that at first when heard this news I was giddy with the thought of that stadium, where the Red Sox have had some of their most crushing defeats, being torn down. But, along with being a steadfast Red Sox fan I am also a believer in the sanctities and traditions of baseball. Though being a Red Sox fan and a Yankee hater, I believe that it would be historically wrong for Yankee Stadium to be torn down. I feel that other Red Sox fans should feel the same way too.
The differences between the new Yankee Stadium and the old Yankee Stadium are going to be minimal. The Stadiums will look exactly alike from the outside and the field dimensions will be exactly the same. The only real differences will be the size of the concourses and a decrease in the amount of seats (roughly 56,000 now down to roughly 52,000). There will be almost no differences in the two stadiums other than the fact that it will look newer so there is no real reason to build a new one, in my opinion. I believe Red Sox fans should not want Yankee Stadium to be demolished either. There are a few reasons I can give for this. The first reason being that even Red Sox fans have personal memories attached to Yankee Stadium. Another reason is because there is a lot of great baseball history that has taken place there. And finally because there are memories of great games (wins or losses) that the Red Sox have had there.
I have been to five games at Yankee Stadium and have fond memories of them all. I was 14 when I saw my first game at Yankee Stadium and it was one of the most memorable games I have ever been to: Mo Vaughn had hit a lead off home run in the second inning and the Red Sox had held onto this 1-0 lead until the bottom of the ninth inning. With two outs and a man on first the Yankee batter hit a fly ball to left field where Mike Greenwell caught it for what we thought was the third out. Apparently though, right before the ball was let go of by the pitcher, two Yankees fans jumped onto the field of play and the third base umpire called time out, thus negating the play that had just happened so the game continued and the Yankees rallied and won the game. I remember being heartbroken after that game but I would not change anything because it is one of my most vivid Red Sox memories. Other friends of mine also have similar fond memories of Yankee Stadium as Im sure many other Red Sox fans do.
In discussing this topic with some of my friends they came up with some good memories that they have of Yankee Stadium. My friend Liz told me of her favorite Yankee stadium memory: I went to college in New York City, starting at a time when the Yankees were in the midst of their record breaking 1998 season. That fall, I was a leader in a program known as Columbia Urban Experience - entering freshmen would come to school a few weeks early, and we would work with them at various community service activities during the day, and then take them out at night to see and get to know New York City. One of those evening activities was a trip to a Yankees game. I had never been to Yankee Stadium before and, being the hardheaded girl that I am, I had to wear my Red Sox cap, even though the Yankees were playing the Mariners. I knew I was going to get harassed for it, but I didn't care. I started getting targeted as we rode the subway to the game, and it just got louder and more frequent as we settled into our bleacher seats. Not being one to back down from anything, I acknowledged all the yelling and insults, usually with a thumb-up and a smile. Roger Clemens was pitching and the Yankees were beating the Mariners unmercifully. I was keeping score, as I always do and some of the fans in the bleachers began to taunt me with things like, Say Chowdah! or Say Pahk Yah Cah! So, after a while of more smiling and listening, I stood up in the middle of the Yankee bleachers and yelled CHOWDAAHHHH! The entire section erupted into applause. I can't be certain, but I think I may be one of the only Red Sox fans to ever elicit such a response from the notorious Yankee Stadium bleachers. And for that, I'm proud.
Another friend of mine, Joe, has fond memories of his visit to Yankee Stadium too: My memories are also of the 1998 season. I had a friend who was an attorney in NY while I was there in grad school. He was a diehard Yankees fan; I'm 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Nevertheless I found myself splitting season tickets with him to Yankee Stadium. I booed the Yankees loudly at every single game, especially when Clemens (a former Red Sox ace) took the mound. Sure, he couldn't hear me from the upper deck but I did my best. I didn't have the gumption to rock the Sox gear like Liz but I did invariably wear something from either the Paw-Sox or the Red Sox AA team, the Trenton Thunder so I could display my Red Sox pride, even if, indirectly.
Im sure there are a lot more of Red Sox fans out there that have fond memories of Yankee Stadium who would also like to see it preserved.
To me one of the most important aspects of Yankee Stadium is its history. There can be so much baseball history felt at Yankee Stadium that wouldnt be truly realized at a new Yankee Stadium. Babe Ruth, one of, if not the, greatest players ever to play the game of baseball, produced most of his incredible offensive numbers at Yankee Stadium. Lou Gehrig played most of his record setting 2,130 consecutive games at Yankee Stadium. Most of Joe DiMaggios record 56 game hitting streak happened at Yankee Stadium. Also, Roger Maris hit his, then record, sixty first home run at Yankee Stadium, (some people still consider it the most home runs hit without the use of steroids). These four men are some of the games great players and they had some of the games great seasons and careers and all of them played at Yankee Stadium. Even if you are a Red Sox fan and Yankee hater you cannot deny the fact that a lot of baseballs great history is attached to Yankee Stadium.
Along with there being a lot of Major League Baseball history at Yankee Stadium there is also a lot of Red Sox history at Yankee Stadium. There have been many classic baseball games between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees that have taken place at Yankee Stadium. These classics include games such as the one that took place on May 28th, 2000. It was a classic pitchers duel between Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens both of whom pitched complete games with a combined 22 strikeouts and only 9 total hits. Clemens stared down Trot Nixon in the first inning, and then Nixon hit a home run in the ninth inning to win the game. I get chills every time I think about that game.
Another game that comes to mind is game seven of the 2003 American League Championship Series where the Yankees came back from a three run deficit to win on a Aaron F. Boone home run in the bottom of the 11th inning. Some Red Sox fans may want to forget that particular game because it is painful, but I truly believe that, that game needed to end in that manner for us to truly appreciate this next game, game seven of the 2004 American League Championship Series. This game will always be known by Red Sox fans as the game that we finally broke the curse of the bambino. The Red Sox had been down of in the best of seven series three games to none but had won the next three to even up the series. The Red Sox won this game in convincing fashion ten to three and clinched a trip to the World Series where they swept the St. Louis Cardinals. As you can see there have been Red Sox memories, good and bad, at Yankee Stadium.
The memories and the great baseball history that have taken place at the storied Yankee Stadium should be enough for any Yankees fan to not want a new stadium. But along with Yankees fans, Red Sox fans should also appreciate and admire the memories and mystique that surround Yankee Stadium and not want it to be replaced.
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In June of 2005 the New York Yankees announced plans to build a brand new Yankee Stadium that will open in April of 2009. This, in turn, means that the old Yankee Stadium will then be torn down. Yankee Stadium is one of the most hallowed grounds of baseball along with Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. To tear down the house that Ruth built would be, to all Yankee fans, as heinous a crime as ballplayers using steroids. I am not a Yankee fan though I am one of the biggest Red Sox fans you will ever find and therefore I hate the Yankees with a passion. I will also tell you that at first when heard this news I was giddy with the thought of that stadium, where the Red Sox have had some of their most crushing defeats, being torn down. But, along with being a steadfast Red Sox fan I am also a believer in the sanctities and traditions of baseball. Though being a Red Sox fan and a Yankee hater, I believe that it would be historically wrong for Yankee Stadium to be torn down. I feel that other Red Sox fans should feel the same way too.
The differences between the new Yankee Stadium and the old Yankee Stadium are going to be minimal. The Stadiums will look exactly alike from the outside and the field dimensions will be exactly the same. The only real differences will be the size of the concourses and a decrease in the amount of seats (roughly 56,000 now down to roughly 52,000). There will be almost no differences in the two stadiums other than the fact that it will look newer so there is no real reason to build a new one, in my opinion. I believe Red Sox fans should not want Yankee Stadium to be demolished either. There are a few reasons I can give for this. The first reason being that even Red Sox fans have personal memories attached to Yankee Stadium. Another reason is because there is a lot of great baseball history that has taken place there. And finally because there are memories of great games (wins or losses) that the Red Sox have had there.
I have been to five games at Yankee Stadium and have fond memories of them all. I was 14 when I saw my first game at Yankee Stadium and it was one of the most memorable games I have ever been to: Mo Vaughn had hit a lead off home run in the second inning and the Red Sox had held onto this 1-0 lead until the bottom of the ninth inning. With two outs and a man on first the Yankee batter hit a fly ball to left field where Mike Greenwell caught it for what we thought was the third out. Apparently though, right before the ball was let go of by the pitcher, two Yankees fans jumped onto the field of play and the third base umpire called time out, thus negating the play that had just happened so the game continued and the Yankees rallied and won the game. I remember being heartbroken after that game but I would not change anything because it is one of my most vivid Red Sox memories. Other friends of mine also have similar fond memories of Yankee Stadium as Im sure many other Red Sox fans do.
In discussing this topic with some of my friends they came up with some good memories that they have of Yankee Stadium. My friend Liz told me of her favorite Yankee stadium memory: I went to college in New York City, starting at a time when the Yankees were in the midst of their record breaking 1998 season. That fall, I was a leader in a program known as Columbia Urban Experience - entering freshmen would come to school a few weeks early, and we would work with them at various community service activities during the day, and then take them out at night to see and get to know New York City. One of those evening activities was a trip to a Yankees game. I had never been to Yankee Stadium before and, being the hardheaded girl that I am, I had to wear my Red Sox cap, even though the Yankees were playing the Mariners. I knew I was going to get harassed for it, but I didn't care. I started getting targeted as we rode the subway to the game, and it just got louder and more frequent as we settled into our bleacher seats. Not being one to back down from anything, I acknowledged all the yelling and insults, usually with a thumb-up and a smile. Roger Clemens was pitching and the Yankees were beating the Mariners unmercifully. I was keeping score, as I always do and some of the fans in the bleachers began to taunt me with things like, Say Chowdah! or Say Pahk Yah Cah! So, after a while of more smiling and listening, I stood up in the middle of the Yankee bleachers and yelled CHOWDAAHHHH! The entire section erupted into applause. I can't be certain, but I think I may be one of the only Red Sox fans to ever elicit such a response from the notorious Yankee Stadium bleachers. And for that, I'm proud.
Another friend of mine, Joe, has fond memories of his visit to Yankee Stadium too: My memories are also of the 1998 season. I had a friend who was an attorney in NY while I was there in grad school. He was a diehard Yankees fan; I'm 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Nevertheless I found myself splitting season tickets with him to Yankee Stadium. I booed the Yankees loudly at every single game, especially when Clemens (a former Red Sox ace) took the mound. Sure, he couldn't hear me from the upper deck but I did my best. I didn't have the gumption to rock the Sox gear like Liz but I did invariably wear something from either the Paw-Sox or the Red Sox AA team, the Trenton Thunder so I could display my Red Sox pride, even if, indirectly.
Im sure there are a lot more of Red Sox fans out there that have fond memories of Yankee Stadium who would also like to see it preserved.
To me one of the most important aspects of Yankee Stadium is its history. There can be so much baseball history felt at Yankee Stadium that wouldnt be truly realized at a new Yankee Stadium. Babe Ruth, one of, if not the, greatest players ever to play the game of baseball, produced most of his incredible offensive numbers at Yankee Stadium. Lou Gehrig played most of his record setting 2,130 consecutive games at Yankee Stadium. Most of Joe DiMaggios record 56 game hitting streak happened at Yankee Stadium. Also, Roger Maris hit his, then record, sixty first home run at Yankee Stadium, (some people still consider it the most home runs hit without the use of steroids). These four men are some of the games great players and they had some of the games great seasons and careers and all of them played at Yankee Stadium. Even if you are a Red Sox fan and Yankee hater you cannot deny the fact that a lot of baseballs great history is attached to Yankee Stadium.
Along with there being a lot of Major League Baseball history at Yankee Stadium there is also a lot of Red Sox history at Yankee Stadium. There have been many classic baseball games between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees that have taken place at Yankee Stadium. These classics include games such as the one that took place on May 28th, 2000. It was a classic pitchers duel between Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens both of whom pitched complete games with a combined 22 strikeouts and only 9 total hits. Clemens stared down Trot Nixon in the first inning, and then Nixon hit a home run in the ninth inning to win the game. I get chills every time I think about that game.
Another game that comes to mind is game seven of the 2003 American League Championship Series where the Yankees came back from a three run deficit to win on a Aaron F. Boone home run in the bottom of the 11th inning. Some Red Sox fans may want to forget that particular game because it is painful, but I truly believe that, that game needed to end in that manner for us to truly appreciate this next game, game seven of the 2004 American League Championship Series. This game will always be known by Red Sox fans as the game that we finally broke the curse of the bambino. The Red Sox had been down of in the best of seven series three games to none but had won the next three to even up the series. The Red Sox won this game in convincing fashion ten to three and clinched a trip to the World Series where they swept the St. Louis Cardinals. As you can see there have been Red Sox memories, good and bad, at Yankee Stadium.
The memories and the great baseball history that have taken place at the storied Yankee Stadium should be enough for any Yankees fan to not want a new stadium. But along with Yankees fans, Red Sox fans should also appreciate and admire the memories and mystique that surround Yankee Stadium and not want it to be replaced.
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finch:
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i'm glad that i could help a bit.
i'm glad that i could help a bit.
finch:
awesome! i actually think it worked out really well for you. i'm really glad that you could get closure from the situation.