Okay, after 85 years, Yankee Stadium will close its turnstiles at the end of the '08 season. Your thoughts?
Best ballpark in the Great Game's history | 12 (7.23%) |
Lousy stadium; great mystique, though | 48 (28.92%) |
Don't care -- good riddance! | 22 (13.25%) |
Never been there; wish I had at least once | 66 (39.76%) |
Parc Jarry, tu me manques | 7 (4.22%) |
Other (what?) | 11 (6.63%) |
Although given the move to the O, maybe Je manque Parc Jarry is right.
Either way, I vote for other ... wasn't the best ballpark (Wrigley), but whenever i had the chance to sit up in the nosebleeds straight behind home plate, I thought that was one of the best places to watch a baseball game.
Other classics I'd love to see are Wrigley (been outside it but never inside) and Kaufman Stadium (KC). Dodgers is tempting too, but not in the same way.
Not sure what your work schedule is like, but there are tickets available for the Mariners game on May 2nd. You can take the day off and make a 3-day weekend in NY.
I hope to be rooting for them to miss the playoffs at that date. It would destroy me if the O's made the playoffs.
Parc Jarry me manque means Jarry Park misses me. Perhaps Parc Jarry, je te manque is what was meant? (Jarry Park, I miss you).
Jarry Park was a crummy park, let's be frank. But it holds nostalgic appeal to me since it was where I saw my first games, including a Tom Seaver 1-0 shutout of the Expos. Ah Mack Jones, Coco Laboy, Rusty Staub, John Boccabella, Boots Day... those were some names, even if the team was lousy.
I was at Yankee Stadium in 1965, before the renovation, sat in the upper deck behind third base and soaked in the ambience as a 16 year old. Now, that was the ballpark.
VBF, is there still a train to Grand Central from Toronto? In honour of the occasion, why not travel in style? Then hop on the DD Express, transfer at 125th Street, and there you are. That's how I remember it. It may be surprisingly affordable.