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After 85 Years, Yankee Stadium Is Going…Going…Gone

[thevicar1]

YANKEES SAWK

[docpeter1953]

The economy is in suchbad shape and all over the country they are building new mega-stadiums and tearing down stadiums , some that are only 30 yrs old. You KNOW someone''''s making money off of this. Texas Stadium, Giants Stadium, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, The Orange Bowl Stadium, they are all history. hmmmmm

Posted by sly_64 at 08:00 AM : Sep 22, 2008
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Well here in Texas it is Jerry Jones making all the money. You should get a load of the contract the City of Arlington signed and it''s citizens agreed to by voting for the new stadium. It will cost the City of Arlington Texas citizens plenty while Jerry Jones pockets several billions.

[evaine-2009]

America tears down all its history. There appears to be no reverence at all for anything other than the dollar. Very sad. But money is what prevails here. They will put a stadium in its place with a commercial advertising name that has no character and will be unmemorable.

[airboatboy1]

Hey Fenner, why don''t you get a life? Go to a dating service or something instead of wasting your life behind your computer.

[sly_64]

The economy is in suchbad shape and all over the country they are building new mega-stadiums and tearing down stadiums , some that are only 30 yrs old. You KNOW someone''s making money off of this. Texas Stadium, Giants Stadium, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, The Orange Bowl Stadium, they are all history. hmmmmm

[tonic1111]

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, SOMEONE IS GETTING A VERY LUCRATIVE CONTRACT TO TEAR IT DOWN AND REBUILD IT. THEY DID THE SAME THING WITH THE STREET CARS IN NEW ORLEANS. TORE THEM OUT, PUT THEM BACK.

THE REASON THEY TEAR DOWN OUR HISTORY IS BECAUSE OUR POLITICIANS HAVE TO MAKE MONEY.

[fsw3]

When I was a kid, I thought Yankee Stadium was the only real baseball park in the nation and I thought all the other teams existed only to play the Yankees. When you look at the records from the 20s, the 40s-50s-and the early 60s, that just about the case. So some may say that this is just another, another set of seats set row on row, a press box and a baseball diamond. There are some things that add up to more than the sum of their parts, the great games, the great memories, the great joys and tribulations, make Yankee Stadium so much more.

[soldat44]

It is not a building or a stadium or a plot of ground.
It is not a date and time or a decade or a century.
It is not one of the "wonders" of man or a mountain in nature.

But it IS a compilation of human acts, nature''''s events, Gods creations and more.

Istory is any people, event, or place or time when human souls were stirred or hearts were thrilled or broken,,, or thoughts sparked,,, or ideas lighted.

History was ineeded Yankee Stadium. But only because of th cotton candy, the cup or beer and the hotdog and all the things and people who lived Yankee Stadium where-ever baseball took the players like Ruth and Berra.

Sad though. Not because it is history now. But because our society has changed sio much it values history so little asa to allow such a symbol to perish. Tear down the parthanon! No one meets there anymore. I don''''t even know how to spell it. Whats the difference anyhow?

It''''s only history.

No need to save it.

Posted by brundage3 at 03:34 AM : Sep 22, 2008

Very well put. Thanks.

[crazycwp]

RIP Yankee Stadium. Off ya go to history.

[credibility2]

This is sad. I remember when the original Comiskey Park in Chicago was demolished. No effort was made to try and re-use portions of the original structure into the ugly one that has replaced it. The same will be true of this historical and venerable stadium. This is a problem with our nation. We destroy history in the name of the future and generally replace the history with structures that are hideous reminders of the present and future. No wonder we don''t have that much historic architecture. I guess we''re ashamed of our past because there aren''t any intelligent individuals being taught about it except through the Internet.