OT: Steiner Sports (Yankees) Article in NY Times

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

You do realize they built a park/field where the old stadium was?

They could have demolished the entire original Yankee Stadium, played at Shea Stadium (and even Citi Field), and built a modern structure on the same site as the original. Even though the building would not be the same, they would still be playing on the same site as the Yankee greats of the past.

[packs]

New Yankee Stadium really is soulless. When you walk in you don't even feel like you're in a baseball stadium. It more closely resembles a mall or the airport.

Citi Field on the other hand is a great place and I really enjoyed the game I saw there. Some guy outside the stadium gave me and my friend free tickets and the security is so lax you can walk around the whole game and take it in in different areas where they even set up tables for you to hang out at.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by packs

Citi Field on the other hand is a great place and I really enjoyed the game I saw there. Some guy outside the stadium gave me and my friend free tickets and the security is so lax you can walk around the whole game and take it in in different areas where they even set up tables for you to hang out at.

Even though I'm a Mets fan and a season ticket holder I have to comment on what you said about security being so lax that you can watch the game from different locations other than your ticketed seat. You can watch the game from different angles, but they have ushers at each and every aisle on the Field Level to check tickets, so you can't go into the seating area and watch the game from an unoccupied seat. And you can't even enter the Excelsior level at all unless you have a ticket for a seat in that level, or you have a ticket that allows you access to the Caesars Club. There's more I can say, but I'll leave it at that.

Which is not to glorify the fake phony fraud Yankee Stadium at all. The last time I was there, I wanted to get a photo from the top of an aisle. I asked the usher, politely, to move a little bit so he wouldn't be in my picture. He responded by yelling "You can't go down there!" even though I never asked, nor attempted, to go down into the seating area.