Unless the Yankees make a miracle-run into the playoffs, today marks the last game between the greatest rivals in sport at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees host the Boston Red Sox for the final time in “the house that Ruth built.”
What a blunder by Major League Baseball.
The inaugural game at Yankee Stadium was played on April 18, 1923, with 74,200 fans in attendance. Appropriately, Babe Ruth hit the first home run at the Stadium – a 3-run shot in a Yankees 4-1 win. Their opponent? The Boston Red Sox.
So, tell me, why the hell are the Red Sox playing the Yankees for the final time at Yankee Stadium on August 28th – and the Yankees visit Fenway Park for the last series of the regular season in September? Does that make any sense?
Baseball is a game of tradition. History is supposed to play a major role in the sport. How did MLB screw this up so badly when it was obvious that closing Yankee Stadium as it began – with a Yankees-Red Sox match up, was apropos?
Sadly, it appears Yankee Stadium will see it last game on September 21, 2008 between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles.
What was Major League Baseball thinking? They obviously weren’t.
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The other question is “what were Big George and Little Hal & Hank thinking, along with the Yankee fans?” I am not sure if the papa and the boys sleazed any tax-payer dollars to build the new Yankee Stadium. But the fans did not utter a noise when the most storied stadium in all of sports history was set for the wrecking ball. That’s what sets Red Sox fans apart from Yankee fans. Yankee fans are more like those who root for the former Soviet Union. More history unfolded in Yankee Stadium than any venue in the world, and the Yankee fans seemed not to care a snot about that history and legacy. In Boston, even at the thought of tearing down Fenway, fans both rebelled and organized to save the park. Just shows the true color of Yankee fans. Green for money.
Comment by Bostonian — August 28, 2008 @ 11:28 am
I heard a MLB manager recently quoted as saying about Yankee Stadium, “It’s not the building, it’s the players who played here.” DA! That’s what it’s all about. The new Yankee Stadium won’t have that nostalgia of standing in the same batters box as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig or Mickey Mantle. I guess time moves on….
Comment by SDsportsnut — August 28, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
Who cares. Blow the damn place up already!
Comment by mrMet — August 28, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
yankees-redsox…..yankees-red sox……who cares….write about something unrelated to boston and new york
Comment by P. Le Pew — August 29, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
I agree with Pepe
Comment by Ernest T Bass — August 29, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
Pepe and Ernest T are idiots…….
Comment by Lou Costello — August 29, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Hey PLP … take off the blinders and take a look at the categories on the right. There are hundreds of posts not Red Sox - Yankees.
Comment by GMAN88 — August 29, 2008 @ 4:07 pm