Security At New Yankee Stadium Gone Crazy
by Al Yellon on May 22, 2009 12:22 PM CDT
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PrintFrom the New York Daily News, reports that security has gone overboard regarding just about anyone who dares to go where they're not "supposed" to at the new Yankee Stadium, from broadcasters to players' wives.
But this part is my favorite:
The combination of food and security collided inside the Stadium Wednesday night. This had nothing to do with high-profile broadcasters or players' wives. This was a rebellion of the rich. In that expensive area downstairs - the one with the empty seats - there are seemingly more waiters and waitresses, serving free food, than there are patrons.
On Wednesday, it got so crazy that the fan-elite started tossing ice cream sandwiches over the moat to peasants sitting in the $400 "cheap" seats. This did not sit well with Toastie security forces, who began scolding their most prized customers. The lecture from security prompted a guy in the rich seats to say: "I paid for this food, I can do with it what I want!"
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I hope that stadium has an electrical short or a heater fire and burns to the ground this winter.
It’d serve ’em right. Make the Yanks play 2010 at Not Shea.
Or maybe I’m just tired of hearing about the new stadium.
No, the first thing.
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury. And all the current slumps.
Bradley watch -- out 10 games of 39
The Curse of the NEW Yankee Stadium has begun.
Gonna be interesting watching for us non-yankee fans for the next 70-80 years.
Didn't a construction worker...
…bury a Manny Ramirez Red Sox jersey in the concrete or something?
"I always tell the truth -- Even when I lie"
Oh yeah
Forgot about that. But yet… afraid so.
That, and a bucket of chicken with trans fats. Trans fats are banned in NY. The place is doomed!
by TheHawkRules on May 22, 2009 1:54 PM CDT up reply actions
I gotta firgure this out
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/sports/baseball/14jersey.html
The sun will shine in '69
Link success!
Red Sox fan Fail!
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury. And all the current slumps.
Bradley watch -- out 10 games of 39
Obviously
All of Big Papi’s homeruns must have stayed with his jersey in New Yankee Stadium.
by The Real Dustin on May 22, 2009 6:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Trickle down concessions economics!
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on May 22, 2009 12:39 PM CDT reply actions
"...from broadcasters to players' wives"
I musta missed that story. Security there has been hassling wives and broadcasters?
"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living." ~Alvin Dark
by DamonBerryhillsMitt on May 22, 2009 12:39 PM CDT reply actions
Ah, okay.
My bad for not doing all of my assigned reading.
"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living." ~Alvin Dark
by DamonBerryhillsMitt on May 22, 2009 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL - what a comical situation.
On an unrelated note, the Yankees have won nine straight.
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
Just another comical yet depressing story...
Of how the Yankees are ruining the fan experience. Everything about that ballpark is a sign of greed that would even make Gatsby blush. I am glad that Chicagoan’s will keep baseball how it should be and not fall to the shameful greed of the Evil Empire.
Very surprising
At the exhibition games at New Yankee Stadium people could walk around and go wherever they wanted. I was surprised by this. I heard at CitiField it was the opposite.
There must have been an incident that forced this to happen.
This is fantastic -- Thanks for sharing!!
Hopefully the Cubs are taking notes on this debacle the Yankees find themselves in. Sometimes teams are better off with the stadiums they have and squeezing every penny out of your fans isn’t the best approach.
I agree with znohitter, I hope this place burns to the ground after the Yankees miss the playoffs again. It is nothing more than a shiny monument to GREED
"I always tell the truth -- Even when I lie"
The place is like Sommon and Gomarrah. There's nothing righteous about
the whole thing and it should be destroyed with balls of fire.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on May 22, 2009 1:23 PM CDT reply actions
These are the same Keystone Kops
that threw a guy out because he didn’t take his hat off for the National Anthem!
Hey, how was the naked run around the block last night?
Nice effort, even if it didn’t pan out…
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury. And all the current slumps.
Bradley watch -- out 10 games of 39
Probably for the best.
When we passed the hat for bail, I started it off with a fiver… and there were three singles and a canadian quarter when it came back…
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury. And all the current slumps.
Bradley watch -- out 10 games of 39
someone
took the Filipino Peso I put in it?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
It's New York, what do you expect
New York City is an animal onto itself. New Yorkers are loud and in your face 24/7. Bad behavior like the aforementioned is what it is like in the Big Apple. That said, I am planning on going to the new Yankee Stadium. I get into the whole Yankee mystique. And while a diehard Cub fan part of my growing up with major league baseball was the years of the “Bronx Zoo” in New York in the 70’s….Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, Sparky Lyle, Sweet Lou, Bucky Dent, Ron Guidry, REGGIE, etc… I admit to rooting for the Yankees. 26 World Series Championships gets my attention. The old Yankee Stadium was awe inspiring to me. To be in that ballpark where Ruth, Gehrig, Dickey, Yogi, Whitey, DiMaggio, Mickey, Maris, Reggie, etc. walked the playing surface gave goose bumps.
Awww, come on guys, it's so simple maybe you need a refresher course. It's all ball bearings ...
Has a place ever been more out of touch?
It seems like they could not have screwed it up more.
Oh Mark DeRosa how we need you at third base.
They could have made obstructed view $400 seats, I guess.
Or sold hot dogs with razor blades.
Or put up a picture of Ruth in his Red Sox uniform.
I’m really struggling to come up with how they could have screwed up this place so bad, for the trillion dollars it cost. That says something.
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