attendance is down but that's because it's $100 for a nosebleed seat on a weekend game
No doubt but those were prices New Yorkers are often willing to pay when the team is better and if they're losing at least 8% compared to last year jacking prices up again is not necessarily an option.
I don't think that satdium is ever selling out. They couldn't even sell it out when it first opened and they had a really good team.
Basically I'm saying Yankee fans suck.
i think the stadium itself is more of a case of ownership hating their fans
True. I amend my statement. (Most) Yankee fans do indeed not suck. The Steinbrenner's certainly do though.
I've been to the real Yankee stadium several times and I have to say those were some of the best experiences I've ever had at a baseball game.
Got to go to Cal Ripken's last game at Yankee Stadium in the pouring rain, it lasted what felt like 20 innings and he played every one of them. Of course we booed the ever loving shit out of him from way up in the bleachers every time he came up to the plate.
almost every yankees fan in tampa that I have sat close to is a detestable shitbag
if I see one more fucker in a jersey recording every Jeter at-bat with a literal HD camcorder from the baseline box, I will do murder
Yankees have easily the worst road fans here
Mets, surprisingly, were a close second
Rangers are a distant but powerful third. They travel in packs.
Red Sox fans are surprisingly decent considering how heavy the rivalry is. I've never had a bad Sox fan. I've had dozens of horrible yankee fans.
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The new stadium can't sell out because it priced a giant percentage of New Yorkers out of the market and you certainly can't blame the fans for low attendance this season. Who the hell wants to pay $120 for a bleacher seat when no less than 30% of the team's payroll is on the DL and they were all underperforming anyway.
Geez, the umpire in the Seattle-Toronto game tonight has nothing even resembling a consistent strike zone, both in regards to PitchTrax and just never calling the same location a strike twice.
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edited August 2013
Fucking shit, benched a home run from Domonic Brown because I couldn't put him in until I dropped someone because he was on my DL and I didn't want to drop anyone until tomorrow.
FUCK! Benched a Gyorko home run too!! I've been so good about not benching home runs this year too!
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Geez, the umpire in the Seattle-Toronto game tonight has nothing even resembling a consistent strike zone, both in regards to PitchTrax and just never calling the same location a strike twice.
What are you complaining about? That is the human element! It's what makes baseball great!
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There is a chance that it could be a Baltimore - Pittsburgh World Series.
Surprisingly it would be the third time those two teams have met, making the matchup one of the more common World Series matchups in history.
They would be tied with Cards v Red Sox, Cards v Tigers, and Reds v Yankees.
These are the four time matchups:
Braves v Yanks
Cubs v Tigers
Giants v A's
Cards and Yanks have met five times
Yanks and Giants seven times
Yanks and Dodgers 11 times.
The amount of things the baseball... industry? community? keep track of truly fascinates and horrifies me. We some times listen to Phillies games at work, and work is a frantic mix of picking orders and stocking rooms and delivering stuff and exchanging carts, but every once in a while, I hear someone utterly insane stat, such as "Jimmy Rollins bats .456 when he he eats chili dogs, the pitcher eats egg rolls, there's a 65% chance of rain in Atlanta, the catcher wears eyeblack and briefs simultaneously, etc"
It helps that baseball games are divided into very clear chunks, and people keep track of all of them. Especially now. Each pitch is its own self-contained event. Each at bat is a collection of pitches. Each inning is a collection of at bats. Each game is a collection of innings. And each one of those things has a very clear and defined start and end point. This makes stat tracking a matter of data entry (and there are tons of places that do this basically instantly) and it also makes it really to take that data and use it in weird and fun ways that don't always tell you anything important (mostly because the really weird stuff is going to be based on a really small sample size that makes the data unreliable).
The hardest stuff to measure is defense, because defense isn't just how many times he fucked up fielding, it's putting yourself in position to make a play, and it's how far you can go to make that play, and those are more nebulous bits of data that nobody can really agree how to measure
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
edited August 2013
I don't know if its true or not, but I still thought it was funny enough to post: David Ortiz was signing autographs pregame when a fan handed over their baby for a photo op. Just then, the National Anthem started up, and...
Yadier Molina should win the NL MVP this year, not only because he's good but my team has played like complete and total shit ever since he injured his knee.
I'm going to get beaten to death by Sweeney this week. It sucks!
Considering how my matchups over the last 2 weeks minimum have gone, I'll believe it when I see it at the end of Sunday. My team has a funny habit now of getting 5 (give or take one or two) hits per game at least twice a week for the last few weeks, and this week I'm already halfway there.
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As an Atlanta native and the fact that I live close to the very first Waffle House ever, I can attest to this.
No doubt but those were prices New Yorkers are often willing to pay when the team is better and if they're losing at least 8% compared to last year jacking prices up again is not necessarily an option.
in fact
Giving Jeter the helm for A-Rod's twilight seasons would be the absolute best thing in the history of baseball.
Basically I'm saying Yankee fans suck.
i think the stadium itself is more of a case of ownership hating their fans
True. I amend my statement. (Most) Yankee fans do indeed not suck. The Steinbrenner's certainly do though.
I've been to the real Yankee stadium several times and I have to say those were some of the best experiences I've ever had at a baseball game.
Got to go to Cal Ripken's last game at Yankee Stadium in the pouring rain, it lasted what felt like 20 innings and he played every one of them. Of course we booed the ever loving shit out of him from way up in the bleachers every time he came up to the plate.
if I see one more fucker in a jersey recording every Jeter at-bat with a literal HD camcorder from the baseline box, I will do murder
Yankees have easily the worst road fans here
Mets, surprisingly, were a close second
Rangers are a distant but powerful third. They travel in packs.
Red Sox fans are surprisingly decent considering how heavy the rivalry is. I've never had a bad Sox fan. I've had dozens of horrible yankee fans.
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FUCK! Benched a Gyorko home run too!! I've been so good about not benching home runs this year too!
What are you complaining about? That is the human element! It's what makes baseball great!
He is on pace for 58 on the season, right now - though he tends to hit them in bunches.
10 more for the franchise record
22 more for the AL record
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As a Braves fan, I'll just say that I've always thought Rocker was a tool and I wish he had never played for us.
Also, 13-game winning streak and 15.5 game lead in the division, wooooooooo
And we swept the Cardinals at the start of the streak, so that's a good sign too.
Unless the Yankees suddenly start playing well.
There is a chance that it could be a Baltimore - Pittsburgh World Series.
Surprisingly it would be the third time those two teams have met, making the matchup one of the more common World Series matchups in history.
They would be tied with Cards v Red Sox, Cards v Tigers, and Reds v Yankees.
These are the four time matchups:
Braves v Yanks
Cubs v Tigers
Giants v A's
Cards and Yanks have met five times
Yanks and Giants seven times
Yanks and Dodgers 11 times.
Fortytwo's blog about fatherhood, life, and everything.
The Yankees have not finished under .500 since 1992
Since 1973 the Yankees have only had six losing seasons.
Since the move to three divisions (1994), the Yankees have never finished worse than third, they have won the division all but five years.
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The amount of things the baseball... industry? community? keep track of truly fascinates and horrifies me. We some times listen to Phillies games at work, and work is a frantic mix of picking orders and stocking rooms and delivering stuff and exchanging carts, but every once in a while, I hear someone utterly insane stat, such as "Jimmy Rollins bats .456 when he he eats chili dogs, the pitcher eats egg rolls, there's a 65% chance of rain in Atlanta, the catcher wears eyeblack and briefs simultaneously, etc"
and I just sort of stumble.
The hardest stuff to measure is defense, because defense isn't just how many times he fucked up fielding, it's putting yourself in position to make a play, and it's how far you can go to make that play, and those are more nebulous bits of data that nobody can really agree how to measure
(I'm going to have five guys blow out their knee over the weekend because of this post, I know it.)
I guess it doesn't help that I just picked up a guy on waivers who is currently on the DL. Although I did drop a DL player to get him.
I'm going to get beaten to death by Sweeney this week. It sucks!
Steam
why did you do that on my bench
I say this as Jed Lowrie and his monster night sit on my bench.