SI: Yankee Stadium is Dying

Credit where credit is due: This is one of the best SI's have seen in a while. Aside from Verducci's piece, Lee Jenkins (who gets better almost with every issue) has a solid story on Peyton Manning reacting to Brady's injury and his own injury fears. Austin Murphy's piece on USC also has some nice moments.

 

I enjoyed Tom's piece. But the whole idea they're tearing down the "old" Yankee Stadium is a crock. They're tearing down the "formerly new" Yankee Stadium. The "real" Yankee Stadium was destroyed in 1974-1975. I was at the real one twice. I was at the current one many times, and frankly, it was a lousy place to see a game and not much of one to work a game, either.

 

Could have been Yankee fans impersonating Braves fans during the latter stages of the last century . . .

 

Ted Williams' first game back at Fenway after the Korean War drew less than 20,000.

 

which proves all yankee fans are assholes.

 

Now my heart is shattered, Tom.

 

come on, dog. i'm a dodger fan. you can't expect any less/more from me.

 

That's true, home-skillet. You go enjoy your all-you-can-eat seats.

 

and i'll counter, my friend, that it's sure easy to be a yankee fan ... until the past few years, of course.

 

Back then a game had to be a draw. Not nearly as many people went to a game just because of the mystique of the Majors. Besides, the A's were basically the Yanks' minor league club for a long time. Ask any old KC fan about that.

 

Outisde of George getting first-run on the $$$$ free-agent market (explaining the late 70s), and the indisputable intelligence of Stick Michael (the late 90s), the Yanks have been fatally-fllawed since post-'64, when all the old farts collapsed in virtual unison.