| First off. Didnt cement fall off the balcony in huge chunks like 5 years back? Imagine if that happened in a game.
Not being from New York when I think of the overall aura and presence of the Yankees, literally one of the last things I think of is the actual staduim.
Granted Yankee stadium is old and nostalgic, but when I went there in 2003, there was not one thing that impressed me about it. I thought it was actually pretty much a shithole. It seemed so generic to me.
Blow the bitch up and keep the Yankee Graveyard, that's it.
As far as location. Could you get a fucking worse location than Yankee stadium. I personally wasnt scared when I went there, but I would have a different feeling if I had a pregnant wife and/or a little child with me. It just doesnt feel safe around there.
There also doesnt need to be as many seats as there are now in Yankee staduim.
On a side note, I often times think its downright hilarious that Yankee fans consider themselves the greatest, most diehard fans in the world. Yet with the x million people that live in the city of New York they can't manage to bang the place out game in game out.
What I am saying is. New York CITY has 8 million people (I looked it up), Boston has 589 thousand people.
Here are the numbers......
New York averaged 47,788 people for 83.1% capacity
Boston averaged 35,028 people for 100.7% capacity. (Yup, only stadium in baseball that goes above capacity)
Point being, the stadium doesnt need to be as big when they could lop off 20% and increase ticket demand at the same time.
Also D. Blow up Fenway. Design a park for more than right handed power hitters, and for the love of god make the seats face home plate (right field seats face the right fielder)
Its about the team, not where they play. Nostaligia is for assholes. lol |