ESPN First Take comparison between Citi Field and Yankee Stadium. Predictably, Yankee Stadium...

ESPN First Take comparison between Citi Field and Yankee Stadium. Predictably, Yankee Stadium scores a Home Run or Grand Slam in every category, while Citi Field only gets singles, doubles and triples. Ridiculous. Also, I haven't heard a single person say that the food at Yankee Stadium is better than that at Citi, except for ESPN.

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If there's supposed to be embedded video, it doesn't appear to be working.

Not in my browser, anyway.

by JoshNY on Apr 13, 2009 12:35 PM EDT reply actions

But after navigating to ESPN to watch the video...

it should be pointed out that they gave ambiance at New Shea a Home Run.

It should also be pointed out that they’re the only people, as mentioned above, who say the food at New Yankee Stadium is better than that at New Shea. Brother Jimmy’s is shitty.

The Yankees are the clear winners on stadium name though.

by JoshNY on Apr 13, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions

True, but this is obvious.

Almost everyhing else should be Mets

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 13, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Have you been to the New Yankee Stadium or Citi Field? You can not make that kind of comparison without going to both stadiums.

by mjs93 on Apr 13, 2009 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions

What I mean is the Mets should be improved over what it says in teh vid.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 14, 2009 7:32 AM EDT up reply actions

weird

it works for me. And the name thing is ridiculous – I think everyone recognizes that Yankee Stadium has a better name, but does that really contribute to one’s enjoyment of a day at the park? I think Citizen’s Bank Park is a better stadium than Nationals Park, despite Nats Park having a better name (and a team I hate way less).

by cjmulrain on Apr 13, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Two minutes into this video ("i give it a home run!") I was peaved at

this assclown’s otherwise pointless exercise in favoritism. But further in, i just felt sorry for the asshat; he probably kicked his dog all night after they forced him to do this demeaning segment. Selective “reporting.” There seem to be many internet reports and videos of obstructed view seats at Citi too. Did the Yankees avoid the “cash grab”? I guess the .2 billion they took from the taxpayers doesn’t count because they named it after the old stadium.

I visited the old Yankee stadium once before it closed and I was unimpressed, even a bit disappointed—they closed monument park arbitrarily early that day, had flat soda and no mustard for shitty hotdog. And it was ugly.

I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya

by itsmetsforme on Apr 13, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions

I never understood the love for the old Yankee Stadium either

Uglier than Shea IMO

by JoshNY on Apr 13, 2009 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree

I think if they’d never done the renovation in the 70’s it would have had the same type of charm as Fenway or Wrigley or at least old Tigers Stadium, but the renovation killed any of the “old time” charm and turned the place into a crappy 70’s park that didn’t even have some of the (very few) modern amenities that those places had (like decent parking).

by cjmulrain on Apr 13, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Assclown. Asshat.

LOL! I love it. The perfect vernacular to describe this douchelord!

" WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU'VE WITNESSED A GRAND HANDSHAKE PARADE? "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Apr 14, 2009 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions

Heh. Nonbiased.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 13, 2009 4:56 PM EDT reply actions

Anyone watch 1st and 10 today?

Jay Crawford talking about the Citi Field opening, claimed that the Mets are the “mortal opposite of the Yankees” b/c the “immortal Jody Gerut hit the first homerun in Citi Field History” and that “a cloud hangs over the franchise” b/c they lost the final game at Shea and the first game at Citi.

No mention of the immortal Jose Molina hitting the final homerun at Yankee Stadium.

by cjmulrain on Apr 14, 2009 11:29 AM EDT reply actions

I have only one thing to say:

Who in the hell is Jay Crawford? Seriously. I have no idea.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 14, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions