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Wino you know wrote:That's going to be the case again this year, as it is every year.
The Mets & Yankees will play six games-three each at their own stadiums.
Same with the Cubs & White Sox.

got ya now.....i thought you posted the Cubs interleague special!!!....whats funny is i haven't been to Citi Field since it opened...it's been only 2 years...but still....i've been by it dozens of times though!!

I've been to Citi Field 7 times since it opened in '09 - I got comped for the first game played there (St. John's & Georgetown), a Paul McCartney concert in '09, the premiere of the movie about Billy Joel's last 2 concerts at Shea Stadium was at Citi Field last year and I've seen 4 Mets games, 1 each of the first 2 years and 2 this year.

Wino you know wrote:You should, really.

I really wanted to get to a game at old Yankee Stadium before they tore it down, and never did.
I'll try someday soon to get to the new Yankee Stadium, but it won't be the same.

I hadn't been to Yankee Stadium in years, I'm not a Yankees fan and it's the Bronx. But I did go to 1 game in 2008 and when the new stadium opened in 2009 I went to 1 game that year too.

DAMN, LARRY,
You never told me you weren't a Yankee fan.

BTW, if the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, I think I'd have yet ANOTHER favorite team. Something about that Brooklyn mystique and it's ethnic aura.

LIPH wrote:

Wino you know wrote:You should, really.

I really wanted to get to a game at old Yankee Stadium before they tore it down, and never did.
I'll try someday soon to get to the new Yankee Stadium, but it won't be the same.

I hadn't been to Yankee Stadium in years, I'm not a Yankees fan and it's the Bronx. But I did go to 1 game in 2008 and when the new stadium opened in 2009 I went to 1 game that year too.

I went to one game at the old Yankee Stadium, back in September 2001.
It was supposed to be Cal Ripken's final game ever,
but due to 9/11, MLB postponed a week's worth of games and it
became Cal's final game at Yankee Stadium
(his final game ever was played a week later
Camden Yards ... I went to that game too).

The game at Yankee Stadium was cold, rainy,
had 3 rain delays and ended in a 2-2 tie
after being stopped in the 6th inning!

Yankee fans could not have been more generous and nice
(I can't believe I am writing this) as I wore my
#8 Ripken jersey that day.

The team with the best record in the American League went home last night, the team with the best record in baseball is going home tonight. The 2 league championship series should be interesting.

LIPH wrote:The team with the best record in the American League went home last night, the team with the best record in baseball is going home tonight. The 2 league championship series should be interesting.

Remember when the teams with the best records would automatically go to the world series? (Before the advent of division play-pre 1969).

I have to say, however, despite my team being eliminated last night, I do like it better this way. At least if a team is 10 games out by mid-September, they still have incentive to keep winning. It's better for baseball, I.M.O.

JollyMon66 wrote:Did everyone see the electronic Christmas card I received this year?

Couldn't stop thinking about this last night

On this day in 1956, Yankees pitcher Don Larsen pitched a perfect game. He faced 27 batters and not a single one made it to base. It remains the only perfect World Series game — indeed, the only perfect post-season game — and one of only 20 perfect games in baseball history.

For the fourth time in five years, the Yankees were playing the Brooklyn Dodgers; it was Game Five and the series was tied two games to two. According to Larsen, he didn't even know he would be pitching until he got to the ballpark. He'd had a disastrous Game Two, lasting only two innings and allowing four runs on four walks. The Yankees had been up 6-0 when he took the mound, and they ended up losing, with a score of 13-8. Larsen was as stunned as anyone when he reported to the park for Game Five to find that manager Casey Stengel had tucked a baseball in his spikes. In the locker room after the game, Larsen said, "When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful."

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I've been to The Old Yankee Stadium many times....1st game there was Old Timers Day game in 1972 against the Orioles. My dad ( who hates the Yankees) use to get tickets a couple of times a year through a business contact. Great seats 1st row, 2nd deck, even with 1st base.....i've been to the Remodeled Stadium twice and haven't been to the new...Shea Stadium i've been to quiet a few times.

except for last year ..it seems that a Wild Card team gets into the WS quiet a bit...i think there was a string of 5 years....Red Sox won as a WC in 2004!!

nycfeat wrote:I'm not a huge baseball fan but I do like seeing the stadiums, especially the ones with history (took a tour of Wrigley; tour and game at Fenway; which one next?).

i've toured Fenway , but didn't get the full tour, due to, they were home that day , Also toured Turner Field and The Georgia Dome!!

On my bucket list-
Yankee Stadium (DUH)
Shea Stadium (DON'T give me the "Citi Field" crap-it'll ALWAYS be SHEA STADIUM)
Fenway Park (obviously)
Camden Yards (heard many nice things about this place
Comerica Park (Tiger Stadium)
PNC Park (Pirates)
Miller Park (Brewers)
Royals Stadium
Target Field (Twins)

Stadiums I love to return to:
Wrigley Field
Dodger Stadium
Petco Park (Padres)
Busch Stadium (I've actually been to all 3)
Comiskey Park (AGAIN, it's COMISKEY PARK-I don't do the corporate crap-the loser prostesters on Wall Street would be proud of me)
Anaheim Angels Stadium

Stadiums I miss:
Old Comiskey Park (best Polish Sausage & draft beer in the world)
Old Tiger Stadium
Crosley Field (Reds original stadium)

Stadiums I've never been to that I wish I would've been to:
Old Yankee Stadium
Ebbets Field
Old Shea Stadium
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
Kansas City Municipal Stadium

Not a fan at all of Comerica Park, Garry. It kills me, because I loved Tiger Stadium and that neighborhood.

Garry, I think I'll take your list for ideas for future trips. Thanks! As for Shea/Citi Field, if you go, there is a free water taxi from the lower east side of Manhattan to the marina near the stadium. It's free but you have to get tickets for it. It's a nice ride and you go right by the runways at LaGuardia Airport.

When I toured Fenway, the Sox were away so we got to go on the warning track. Right in front of the scoreboard and the AL EAst standings board. That was very cool.

Fenway Park - AL East Standings, on Flickr

Coors Field is an awesome place to see a game, if I do say so myself.

chippewa wrote:Not a fan at all of Comerica Park, Garry. It kills me, because I loved Tiger Stadium and that neighborhood.

Yeah, me too. I say Comerica Park (which I refer to as NEW Tiger Stadium) just because of the history of baseball in Detroit. It LOOKS like a nice stadium, and I do have friends and (I'm told) distant relatives in the area, so maybe someday soon.
OLD Tiger Stadium was a thrill for me. I was at a Tigers/Oakland Athletics game there in 1990, and enjoyed it immensely.

Sang: Thanks, hopefully when I retire in 3 years that will be one of my first stops.

Penny: Yes, I always did like Denver. We drove by the old Mile High Stadium in 1997 on the way to the Las Vegas concert. Spent the night in Denver at a Super 8 (I think), and the next morning had breakfast, toured the mint, and headed west for Sin City & Jimmy Buffett. I remember going by Mile High Stadium, and, if I remember correctly, Coors Field was under construction at the time.

SMLCHNG wrote:Coors Field is an awesome place to see a game, if I do say so myself.

Penny, I'd love to go to Denver for any reason!