Anyone know if the the New York Yankees are getting a new stadium? if so, where abouts and when?
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Yes.\n\nLimestone walls rising like a fortress, standing sentinel in refurbished parkland. It's the view Babe Ruth had when he went to work in the house they built for him.\n\nOn the inside, a mix of modernity and antiquity has officials from City Hall, Albany and the Bronx gushing: the old frieze hanging from the roof like copper lace, bullpens back in the outfield where they used to be, but with open concourses (with six times the space for concession sales) and sight lines to the field from almost anywhere in the park.\n\nThis is the new Yankee Stadium, almost ready for prime time, all but signed, sealed and to be delivered by Opening Day 2009\n\nRegards
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Yankee Stadium!!! It has SO much history in it! \n                    GO YANKEES!!!!!
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I see your point, and perhaps it's time they just change their names, but the location of the games does not determine the area they chose to represent.\nThe Giants and Jets rent the stadium known as Giants Stadium, or the Meadowlands if the Jets are home. However, this is primarily due to financial reasons that make it more profitable to play in Jersey while not actually becoming a Jersey team due to tradition of the teams' names. Remember, neither the Giants nor the Jets own the stadium; they just rent it from the NJ Sports and Exposition Authority. It's cheaper to do that than to try and build a new stadium somewhere in NYC.
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We can't say...officially. But we try to move the dates up (opening sooner) rather than back.  For the improvements, well, we'll have to keep you in suspense for that - don't want to tip our hand. But stay in touch with the team at our sports blog - http://360.yahoo.com/ysportsblog
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I think the new stadium was most definetly needed although I was sad to see it go.  I like the feel of the new park.  It gives me the feeling of, "this is what a modern day ballpark is supposed to feel like".  The atmosphere is just so fresh, and a great place for the cardinals to kick ass!!!
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I believe this is the final year of the contract with the company for the use of their Umpire Information System. Only 10 stadiums/fields use the system Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Chase Field, Fenway Park, Jacobs Field, McAfee Coliseum, Miller Park, Minute Maid Park, Shea Stadium, Tropicana Field and Yankee Stadium. If the service is retained(contract renewed), most likely all stadiums/fields will be provided the service, as has been discussed and promised.
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Fenway Park and it's not even close. There is nothing that distinguishes Yankee Stadium from any other park out there. It's a cookie cutter stadium with no charm and no personality. It's in the middle of a shithole section of the city and there are some truly terrible seats in that place. I've climbed Mt Washington before, but I still don't think I was ever as elevated as the day I was in the upper deck at Yankee Stadium. \n\nOn the other hand, Fenway has one of the most unique fields in the majors. Everything from the green monster to the right field pavilion seats to the foul terrortory make the place stand out. The Red Sox own most of the surrounding neighborhood so they typically keep it clean and make sure that there's plenty to do. \n\nThe fans for both teams are considered to be the best and most knowledgable in the game...but mostly they're both just really annoying. They'll be really into the game at either place, but that doesn't make them any smarter. \n\nIf you really have to just pick one, go with Fenway and you won't regrett it. But the two are only five hours apart. You could always spend part of your trip in Boston, take the drive down to New York, and spend the rest of it there.
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A lot of pitching, No. Enough pitching, yes. The Yankees are a perennial playoff team and I don't see that changing. Their offensive is so explosive that they can win with a sub-par pitching staff.
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Greetings from inside the Yahoo Brain in New York City!\nHope you're catching the live webcast at: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\nWhile I'd love to say the Yankees will win, unless they pick up Barry Zito soon, it's not going to happen.\n\nGotta love those St. Louis Cardinals.\n\nHope this helps!\n\n--J.
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Eventually the Jays are going to be the better team because their players are younger and are entering their prime years. The Yankees have a good team but the players are older and soon they'll be past their prime years. Also the Yankees are stuck with a lot of expensive and lengthy contracts that eventually will prevent them from signing new free agents for once.
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Good question.  Remember that the '94 Yankees were not the same "dynasty", Derek Jeter coverboy Yankees to which we've all, unfortunately, grown accustomed -- '94 was the first year after many VERY bad years that the Yankees were again a true contender, so I'm not really sure how they would have handled the postseason.  Plus, '94 was to be the first year with the wildcard added to the playoffs, so who knows what would have happened.  And the '95 Yankees weren't yet polished enough even to beat Seattle.  As for the '94 Expos?  Well, this sounds strange to say now, but pre-'94, the Expos actually were a decent team with an okay attendance figure from the late 80s until then.  But like the '94 Yankees, they were a team that hadn't come near the playoffs in years.  So, there's actually a good chance that neither team would even have made it to the world series.\n\nThe real weird thing about it is that the strike year, in retrospect, seems like a major turning point in the game -- the two best teams were comprised of one that would go on to spending record amounts of $$ year after year in pursuit of the title (I can't fault them only, though, since they weren't the only team doing spending so much) and another team that saw its payroll quickly diminish more and more year after year, eventually forced into relocation.  You can't really get two more disparate teams then the Expos and Yankees -- yet in '94 the economic factor hadn't yet become too great a divide.
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The most unneeded thing in a stadium is that concrete field in Montreal.  I know they don't use it anymore but it is still standing.  I remember watching an Expos game against the Braves and Chipper Jones hit a sky high ball and the outfielder lost it in the lights and when the ball came down, it bounced so high that Chipper was at 3rd base by the time they were able to field the ball.  If you are talking about current stadiums is Petco Park's gaps.  Those things are like a mile away from the plate and 422 in the Left Center gap is absolutely ridiculous.  Second is that hill in Center Field in Houston which is also a ridiculous number of feet away from the plate.
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C'est tres vague comme question (vu la creation plus recente de certains sports), mais je pense que les New York Yankees en baseball sont sans aucun doute tre sbien places dans ce genre de classement.
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If Mays and Aaron had switched and, had Mays played in County Stadium and then Atlanta's launching pad stadium (hey, in one year, 4 different Braves each hit over 40 homers) - then we would be talking about Bonds chasing his godfathers' record !!!
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I dont recommend you take anyone to a yankee game, they are horrible.  They are known for choking, an example is in 2004 when they were up 3 games to none in the ALCS and lost 4-3, what a pathetic team!!!
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New York Yankees!!!!!!!!!
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Dear fellow Met fan: I hate the Yankees because the BOSS spends oodles of money on players who don't bring him a championship. Back in the day before Steinbrenner got Giambi, ARod, etc; Jeter, Tino Martinez and Paul O'Neill helped bring the Yanks to multiple titles. I guess I don't hate the Yankees all that much, but I seriously dislike them. When the BOSS is out, then I'll give them a little more respect. The same respect I have for guys like Joe Torre.