Meet the new Stadium - same as the old Stadium

I was so mad when I saw Rex in a Yankees shirt on SNY the other day.

As a Jets fan I have to laugh it off, but it was tough.

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jun 5, 2010 12:02 AM PDT reply actions

Nice pics btw.

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jun 5, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Thanks for sharing your pics!

Bad font usage on the scoreboard makes me sad.

The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09

by pam5981 on Jun 5, 2010 12:24 AM PDT reply actions

What's wrong with the font?

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by OldhamA on Jun 5, 2010 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions

san sarif makes it hard to read

The Giants scoreboard is unreadable. There is not an aspect of it I don’t have a complaint about.

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by Future Ed on Jun 5, 2010 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions

The scoreboard was much easier to read in person

Shrinking the picture makes the scoreboard harder to read. For a better view, try this.

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by doctorK on Jun 5, 2010 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions

My main problem with it is that they're scaling the font disproportionately.

On the Nick Swisher pic you can see the font at it’s correct dimensions. On the Brett Gardner pic they’ve scaled the width down (but not the height) and it looks horrible.

The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09

by pam5981 on Jun 5, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Also IT'S NICK SWISHER IN A FUCKING YANKEE UNIFORM.

Wrong. So wrong.

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by mikev on Jun 7, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Old Yankee Stadium was steeep.

It made for great sight lines, and a touch of vertigo. Looks like they reduced the upper deck slope a bit.

Thanks for the pics, and esp the snark!

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by The Dogfather on Jun 5, 2010 11:46 AM PDT reply actions

I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent view of the field from the upper troposhere

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by doctorK on Jun 5, 2010 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Can't rec this enough!

All that hooey about Yankee fans being better baseball fans than those of other teams is just flat-out crap.

It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.

by Englishmajor on Jun 5, 2010 12:27 PM PDT reply actions

Thanks

One so-called “fan” was more interested in taking pictures of his friends than watching the game – the result of which was he kept sitting way forward in his seat, with his enormous cranium directly between me and home plate.

BEER IS GOOD. BEER IS GOOD. BEER IS GOOD, AND STUFF.

by doctorK on Jun 5, 2010 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions

"hooey"??...!!!

Is kind of like a Bose-Einstein Condensate?? Theorized for years before finally detected?
I’m a bit unclear on the translation :)

Great pictures, Dr. K, and always good to see you and your family out having baseball fun.
Thanks for sharing.

I have a set of “film” photos of Yankee Stadium from a tour I took in 2002. Yankees out of town.

You were brave to wear your A’s gear. Bravo!

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Beane: They believe it because it's true.

by One won lost won on Jun 6, 2010 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions

Cool pictures, BUT

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people go to a game wearing a team’s apparel when that team is not playing in that stadium. I know you’re an A’s fan, but it was a Yankees – Indians game!

Appreciate the snark tho!

by darooster on Jun 5, 2010 1:07 PM PDT reply actions

So what's he supposed to do, wear Yankees or Indians stuff or nothing team-related at all?

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by Flashfire on Jun 5, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

is there something wrong with wearing nothing team-related at all?

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by jlanning17 on Jun 8, 2010 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions

No, but you should be able to wear whatever team's shirt or hat or even jersey you want if you're a fan of that team

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by Flashfire on Jun 8, 2010 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Hm.

Do you buy a piece of overpriced team apparel to visit a stadium where you’re going to see one game?

The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09

by pam5981 on Jun 5, 2010 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn't have gone as overboard as doctorK did, with the A's shirt and hat.

I’d have probably worn the hat though. I see no problem with it.

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

by OldhamA on Jun 5, 2010 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions

wrong

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by doctorK on Jun 5, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions

I have no issue with a baseball fan taking in a game in his team's gear

Regardless of whether his team is playing or not. In a way, if they’re not a fan of either team, it’s kind of nice to know.

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by DMOAS on Jun 6, 2010 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions

no kidding,

I saw a cheese head at a Raider/Broncos game.

Nice pics Dr. K, thanks for sharing.

by sf drift king on Jun 6, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

the only time this bugs me

is when i go to the coliseum and see people in red sox gear

like tonight i saw a guy wearing a beckett t-shirt even though we’re playing the angels

red sox fans annoy the hell out of me namely because 90% are cerca 2004

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by supermarc589 on Jun 8, 2010 2:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Well that's the difference between simply hating the fan as opposed to where he is specifically.

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by DMOAS on Jun 8, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions

dislike

I wear my A’s hat to a lot of places, including Coors Field. I suck, I guess.

by Colorado Fan on Jun 8, 2010 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Apparently, so do I

In Denver

also in Philadelphia

(also in Pittsburgh, although I didn’t get a picture of me there)

BEER IS GOOD. BEER IS GOOD. BEER IS GOOD, AND STUFF.

by doctorK on Jun 8, 2010 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

I would have been wearing scrubs

because at any Yanqui’s game I am rooting for injuries.

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by fridaynightfan on Jun 8, 2010 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Are you serious?

All the effed up things people do and that’s one of your pet peeves?

Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!

by Monday Fan on Jun 10, 2010 1:22 AM PDT up reply actions

Four days late and a few dollars short.

Awesome stuff, doctor.

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Jun 8, 2010 8:10 AM PDT reply actions

Great shots

Yankee Stadium AND a Rex Ryan sighting? Awesome.

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by YonYonson on Jun 8, 2010 11:16 AM PDT reply actions

Thanks

Ryan was shown on the big screen during the game (I heard both cheers and boos for him). As we were leaving, I stopped to take another picture, and noticed this guy with a pass hanging from his neck with ‘Rex Ryan’ on it, so I waited until he walked by before taking his picture. The funny thing was, here is the head coach of an NFL team just walking away from the ballpark after a game like an ordinary Joe – and even though he was clearly labeled (and I assume very recognizable in NY), nobody even seemed to notice.

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by doctorK on Jun 8, 2010 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions