But my point was that they arent' paying a penny for a stadium, which is true. None of the other investments are exclusive to the Yankes or the stadium. The other investments are part of the overall redevelopment of the South Bronx.

The Metro North station will be open year-round, and will primarily serve the nearbu business district, not the Yankees, though I'm sure many stadium visitors will use the new station. The new parks obviously benefit the nearby residents. The garages do benefit the Yankees, but they will also be open for the public in the off-season.

Anyone that dislikes this new Yankee Stadium aesthetically should be reminded of what was almost built to replace the current venue back in 2001:

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In addition to the roof, the main entrances would've been located by first and third base, rather than home plate.

The Mets has an even more ridiculous proposal between 1998 and 2001 posted here. (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=18453092&postcount=143) :)
That would have been awesome

That thing is massive. I don't know how they can justify the cost of adding a roof to the stadium. Given the stadium and arena market in NY, there are already a bunch of indoor spaces that can take many, many people--- MSG, the planned Brooklyn Nets stadium, the Prudential Center, Izod Arena, are all pretty stiff competition in the indoor arena markets. If they lose a couple of days a year due to rain, it's not as big a money loser as a whole moving roof that'll cost tens if not hundreds of millions more. You could justify a stadium roof if you can plan events like concerts there-- granted very few concerts are ever held in Shea or Yankee Stadium right now, but I just don't see how that can be cost effective.

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Ever noticed that the guy on the right of this picture (pointing) is Brian Cashman?

thats him pointing at where his office used to be before he was fired for throwing chunks of money at Bobby Abreu and all the other high priced free agents.

I really don't see why NY'ers are complaining about this stadium. The Yankees are paying for it, and the Bronx is getting new green areas, a new metro link, and frankly, a better ballpark than what currently exists. So for basically what other municipalities are paying for their ballparks, the Bronx and NY get way more bang for their buck.

The Bronx is not getting new "green areas", if by "green areas" you mean baseball diamonds and a few bushes on top of parking garages. The residents of the Bronx won't be getting back the parkland that was torn up for the new stadium, which is just what the asthma capital of the US needs.

And the stadium is costing the public over $600 million. The Village Voice has done a lot of investigative reporting on this topic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/02/19/2008-02-19_talks_over_stadium_fund_gets_heated.html
Talks over stadium fund gets heated

BY BILL EGBERT
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, February 19th 2008, 4:00 AM

After a nearly two-year delay, the board of the community benefit fund promised by the Yankees as part of the new stadium deal is stepping up to the plate.

But it's not without some rancor between the Yankees and local legislators.

"Our first priority will be to get money to Little Leagues across the Bronx before the season starts," said Michael Drezin, fund administrator and spokesman for the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund Inc. "The goal is by April."

The new nonprofit, informally known as the New Yankee Stadium Foundation, expects to receive its first round of funding by the end of the month.

A recent meeting between Yankees President Randy Levine and local legislators turned into a shouting match when Levine responded with vague numbers about how many local residents have been hired to work on building the new stadium.

Then, Levine irked the lawmakers even more by referring them to Borough President Adolfo Carrión to answer questions about the long delay in getting the foundation organized and its funding distributed.

The community benefits agreement signed by the Yankees to blunt local opposition to the stadium construction plan promises the fund $800,000 in cash and $100,000 in baseball equipment - along with 15,000 home game tickets - annually for the next 40 years.

Drezin explained that the newly assembled all-volunteer board has only recently been able to get its legal paperwork together to receive and disburse the funds.

The board, headed by New York National Bank founder Serafin Mariel, also includes Ronald Bailey, pastor of the Love Gospel Assembly Church; Roberto Crespo, director of Knock for Freedom; Susan Goldy, a local Realtor; Ted Jefferson, executive director of Bronx Shepherds Restoration Corp.; Leo Martinez, executive director of Alliance for Community Services; and Harold Silverman, a former judge.

Once the fund takes care of the borough's Little League teams, the focus will turn to the area around the new stadium site.

"We know that a number of people in the community are unhappy about the pace so far and are concerned they're being forgotten," said Drezin. "And we intend to address those concerns in a dramatic way."

Grants will go to established nonprofit groups with experience working in the Bronx, he said, as well as to "fiscal conduits" - nonprofit entities that fund smaller community groups and programs.

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from a non-baseball fan point of view, mine, but an architecture fan, i do have to say i prefer CitiField.

What is the average cost for a ticket at Y.S?

30-40

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/03/04/2008-03-04_yankees_fans_snap_up_tickets_to_say_good-2.html
Yankees fans snap up tickets to say goodbye to Ruth's House

BY CLAUDIA ARISO
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Tuesday, March 4th 2008, 4:00 AM

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Die-hard Yankee fan Russ Geary, 59, of Tarrytown, N.Y., shows prized tickets bought at Stadium Monday.

Hundreds of fans lined up for a big bit of history Monday - tickets to see their beloved Yankees play one last game in the House That Ruth Built before it gets torn down.

"This is the last year for this stadium and it's the stadium I grew up with," said Tony Garcia, 56, who bought six $25 nosebleed seats to a September game against the Chicago White Sox.

"I need to say goodbye," said the Bronx bus driver.

It was sentiment shared by hundreds of die-hards who started lining up overnight for tickets to see games in the old Stadium.

"I'm cold, but it's worth it," said Joanna Wright, 40, a Montefiore Medical Center nurse who showed up at 7 a.m. - three hours early - for a pair of ducats for her and her husband.

"I will get whatever I can get. I want to be in that stadium at least one more time."

A new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium is slated to open across the street for the 2009 baseball season.

"This year is historic. That's why I came," agreed Rob Rivera, who grew up a few blocks from the stadium, on 142nd St. and Third Ave. "I've been coming here since I was a kid but I understand it's time for a change."

Despite the long wait yesterday, many games were already nearly soldout and only scattered seats were available for Red Sox or Mets games.

Rivera, 62, said it "was unfair" that many tickets were soldout online.

"They should have waited for people to get here," he said. "I can't get tickets to the best games."

Mark Ortiz, 51, of Long Island took it all in stride.

"We saw many groups of people buying tickets from scalpers. That's why tickets were gone fast," he said.

Still, he and 14-year-old son Mark weren't complaining after plunking down $1,200 for games against the White Sox, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Twins.

Tickets first went on sale online Friday. They are now also available over the phone by calling Ticketmaster - (212) 307-7171 - and at Yankee clubhouse shops.

Opening Day at the old Stadium is Monday, March 31, against the Toronto Blue Jays. The scheduled final regular season game is Sunday, Sept. 21, against the Baltimore Orioles.

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It's weird... the view over the outfield is residential blocks and not the commercial area of the Grand Concourse.

It's weird... the view over the outfield is residential blocks and not the commercial area of the Grand Concourse.

It's just a couple of blocks north of the old stadium. Is it that big of a difference?

The stadium construction started out slowly, but it has really picked up in recent months. The stadium bowl is pretty much complete and a good amount of the facade has been applied!

man, what a great view out that out field of the city sky line and beautiful tree scape!

Why is this not in the stadium section?

Why is this not in the stadium section?

good luck getting this crap moved :dunno:

I'm gonna cry when they demolish the old one. Yankee Stadium is like one of the wonders of the world to me and a lot of people, but I also understand that they needed a more modern stadium :(

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^^Thanks for the beautiful pictures. I love the first one. The house that Ruth built on the right and the house that Jeter built and AROD painted and furnished on the left!!!:lol::cheers::banana:

GO YANKEES!:righton:

I'm gonna cry when they demolish the old one. Yankee Stadium is like one of the wonders of the world to me and a lot of people, but I also understand that they needed a more modern stadium :(

Ill through a party with all the Red Sox fans because the Yankees sold out first.

Any Yankee fan knows that the old stadium is a dump. I'm glad they're building a new stadium (though I wish they could've just rebuilt it in the current site, and not across the street). As historic as the old stadium is. it lost much of its character in the 1970s "renovation." The Sox should be thankful their stadium has much of its original character intact. If the 70s renovation didn't pull down as much of the original 1920s Yankee Stadium as it did, then I'd be more vocal about keeping the old Yankee Stadium.

Although I hope that the characters you find in the right field bleachers will still be there in the new stadium. Nothing like the bleacher creatures anywhere in sports.

i luv the look of the new yankees stadium!!

What are they going to do with the old stadium? Are they going to build apartment buildings and businesses there?

Why is this not in the stadium section?

Agreed. What the heck?



Lovely news about the ticket prices.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/sports/baseball/21tickets.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Although I hope that the characters you find in the right field bleachers will still be there in the new stadium. Nothing like the bleacher creatures anywhere in sports.

Only if they can afford $25 tix a game, instead of the current $12 tix a game.

What are they going to do with the old stadium? Are they going to build apartment buildings and businesses there?

Parking garages and baseball diamonds.

wow, i just saw the price for tickets at this new thing, WAY OVER PRICED!

And yet they will undoubtedly sell out every night.

I think it's sort of sad "The House That Ruth Build," old Yankee Stadium, will be torn down. I hope Wrigley Field in Chicago doesn't meet the same fate in a few years. About 3 years ago, the newest owner of the Dodgers talked of building a modern stadium for the team in downtown LA. Dodger Stadium, which overlooks downtown LA and Chinatown, from the hills of Chavez Ravine, would have been demolished to make room for a high end housing development. The outcry from Dodger fans was one of revolt and shock, thus killing the plan.....at least for now.

And yet they will undoubtedly sell out every night.

ya, i want to spend $55,000 to sit behind home plate to watch the Yankees play the Devil Rays.....yawn. Great investment!

Just shows you how lucrative New York is as a market and how valuable a team like the Yankees are compared to say places like Dallas (as rich as the people there are)--

Well I guess an apples to apples comparison is this. All ballgames are overpriced. No matter where they are. But people are willing to pay the big money for tickets at Yankee Stadium. It sucks because I'm priced out of a Yankee game as a Yankee fan.

But you take that same price tag and put it at another stadium and nobody will pay that much. Put it in Arlington with the Rangers and nobody will go. So we can say that people are stupid for paying that much, or the Yankees are smart for building up their brand value, or a combination of both. The fact is, the demand exists, and the product is worthy of the price. So your sourgraping is understandable, but that's the reality of it. I don't understand all of it, but it is what it is... it's like this too... a courtside seat at MSG to watch the friggin Knicks costs an arm and a leg. And yet people do it. For a team as crappy as the friggin Knicks. But that's the thing with New York. The only other cities and teams that I think can get away with it are the Dodgers, the Red Sox and the Celtics. Maybe your Cowboys.

The Yankees and the Rays are actually a fine game to watch. The Rays are a young team and both teams have scores to settle with each other.

Can this thread be moved to the stadiums forum ??

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04112008/news/regionalnews/highjinx_hits_yankees_106016.htm
HIGH'JINX' HITS YANKEES

CREW SABOTEUR BURIED RED SOX GEAR UNDER NEW STADIUM

By JOHN DOYLE, CHUCK BENNETT and JEREMY OLSHAN

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FOUL FOE: Baseball's hottest rivalry, featuring rhubarbs like this one involving Yankee Jorge Posada and Boston's Kevin Youkilis, just got uglier.

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Hex marks the spot: A traitorous Boston-rooting construction worker poured concrete over a Sox T-shirt to ensure that it is forever entombed in what will become the visiting clubhouse at the new Yankee Stadium. "It's the curse of the Yankees," said one witness to the evil deed.

April 11, 2008 --

The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed!

A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday.

"In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor's clubhouse. It's the curse of the Yankees," one worker said. "Nobody knows about it. It's in the floors, it's buried."

The workers say they now fear that they unwittingly helped hex their beloved Bronx Bombers.

"I don't want to be responsible for sinking the franchise," said a second worker, who witnessed the sabotage. "I respect the stadium."

The Post has withheld their identities because they are not authorized to speak to media.

This latest hex is above and beyond any typical ritual - like wearing a lucky shirt or hat - that fans typically do to boost their luck.

"It sounds a little unprecedented to me," said Tim Wiles, director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown.

"I guess if the Yankees go 86 years in the new ballpark without a win we'll know if we are on to something," he said, referring to Boston's previous infamous losing streak after they sold Babe Ruth.

"If I was a Yankees fan, that is my house. I don't want a Red Sox [T-shirt] under my house," he added.

Chris Wertz, co-owner of the Red Sox bar Professor Thom's in the East Village, laughed at the ingenuity of the worker.

"I won't be surprised in the least bit to see that visiting locker room torn up and relaid right away," he said. "This what makes the game special for baseball fans. It's not a mean thing, but something they will take seriously."

Red Sox fans, he said, will see the buried garment as a good-luck charm, especially after years of seeing the retired numbers of four legendary players displayed in Fenway Park.

It has long displayed "9" for Ted Williams, "4" for Joe Cronin, "1" for Bobby Doerr and "8" for Carl Yastrzemski - which comes out to 9-4-18, the day before the World Series that resulted in the last Red Sox championship until 2004.

Baseball historians said these kinds of superstitions are not something to be scoffed at.

"Curses start off very easily. It's all the power of suggestion and they take on a life of their own," said Dan Gordon, co-author of the 2007 book "Haunted Baseball."

"Even the 'Curse of the Bambino' didn't really take off until the 1980s. Before then it was just hard luck," he said.

Mickey Bradley, co-author of "Haunted Baseball," said a worker is said to have buried an unknown good-luck charm in a water main trench of the current Yankee Stadium back in 1920.

"Prior to that, they never they won a World Series," he said.

Players can also bring curses to their teams.

"Look at the curse of A-Rod. The Yankees haven't won since [Alex Rodriguez] came to their game. There's probably more to that than a T-shirt," said Peter Nash, author of "Boston's Royal Rooters," a history of Red Sox fans.

"This just takes the rivalry to whole new level. If you look at 2004, the Yankees were up three games. If Boston lost that, seriously, the whole franchise would have been decimated," said Nash, who performed with the rap duo Third Bass before writing about baseball.

"I think there is a curse in effect already. Maybe the Red Sox T-shirt is like the icing on the cake, a nice little F-you from Boston," he said.

The year 2004, of course, was the year the Red Sox broke their own curse and won the World Series after beating the Yankees in the playoffs.

Still, stadiums have long had their own curses.

One of them is the 1945 "Billy Goat" curse at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago cubs.

Legend has it that William Sianis placed a curse on the team after stadium staff refused to let him enter with his pet goat. The team hasn't played in the World Series since 1945.

Superstition in stadiums can also cut the other way and help a team.

The Texas Rangers languished in their old stadium from 1972 to 1993, until they moved into a new ballpark the following year. Since then, the team won three division titles. More recently, the Tampa Rays may be cursed by their own new stadium, which was partially built over a cemetery.

Over the past decade, the team had the worst record in all of Major League Baseball four times and finished last place in their division nine times.

As for the buried emblem of hated Boston, the Yankees say they aren't the least bit worried.

"It sounds like a tall tale, and it would take more than a Red Sox T-shirt to put a curse on the Yankees," said team spokesman Howard Rubenstein.

john.doyle@nypost.com

Yes, this new piece of crap is cursed!

Why has this not been moved to the Stadium area?

lol hillarious!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04132008/news/regionalnews/hammering_the_hex_106315.htm
HAMMERING THE HEX

STADIUM HARDHATS UNCOVER SOX SHIRT

By ANGELA MONTEFINISE, BRAD HAMILTON, ALEX GINSBERG and JAMES FANELLI

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BIG DIG:The jersey is partly uncovered yesterday after workers used jackhammers to root it out.

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Workers dug up the Red Sox jersey in a service corridor near the new Legends Club behind home plate.

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April 13, 2008 --

The curse has been broken - out of the ground, that is.

A pair of hardhats working at the new Yankee Stadium dropped a dime on the location of a buried Red Sox jersey.

Beantown-loving construction worker Gino Castignoli, who lives in The Bronx, confessed to The Post last week that he buried a Red Sox slugger David Ortiz jersey at the site last summer while working at the stadium.

After reading about the traitorous act in The Post, the two workers approached a construction manager and said they remembered Castignoli, who only worked at the Stadium one day, and thought they knew where he must have placed the shirt.

They led the manager to a service corridor near the site of the planned Legends Club restaurant, behind home plate and toward the third base side.

After the hardhats pointed to the spot, workers brought out jackhammers and dug furiously for five hours, creating a 2-foot- by-3-foot, gravel-filled pit in their search for the tainted threads.

They spotted the jersey at 3:25 p.m. and called Yankee brass. The cursed shirt was about two feet deep in cement.

"They absolutely pinpointed that if it was in the ground, that's where it was," team spokeswoman Alice McGillion said, as she let The Post inspect the now partly buried shirt.

But the team declined to identify its latest heroes.

Said McGillion: "The workers came forward this morning and said that they thought if there was a shirt buried, this is where it was" - on the stadium's lowest level, behind where the field-level seats will be.

Truth be told, the jersey felt like a filthy rag - but the lettering of the word "RED" was plainly visible.

The Post first revealed Castignoli's dirty deed Friday. Then yesterday, the Boston-loving boob said he hid it along the third-base line.

Yankee brass was initially in denial, a spokesman explained, because a quick review of the new Stadium's pouring records determined that it just couldn't be buried in that location.

After the discovery, the team ordered the work stopped - and left the shirt in the cement in preparation for an extraction ceremony today.

"We want to thank The Post for raising the issue," McGillion said. "The [two] workers were terrific in coming forward. They wanted the shirt out of there."

As it turns out, Castignoli, 46, has been in trouble before. The hulking mason once pleaded guilty to involvement in a $40 million illegal gambling operation with ties to the Gambino crime family.

He was busted in February 2002 during a roundup of mob-connected gambling dens, according to the Brooklyn DA's Office.

But it was the betrayal of his borough that elicited Bronx cheers from many Yankee fans - including the new Boss, Hank Steinbrenner.

"I hope his coworkers kick the s- - - out of him," said George's boy, who now runs the team with his brother Hal.

Hank put no stock in talk of curses or in Castignoli's cruel bid to hex the Yankees' new $1.3 billion home.

A buried jersey, he reassured worried fans, means nothing.

"It's a bunch of bull- - - -," Hank said.

But Castignoli scoffed at the top Yankee honcho's ready dismissal.

"So, then, why is he making such a big stink about it?" asked the would-be hexer. "If it's no big deal, why not let it lay? Apparently, it's bothering him.

"Tell Hank he can come meet me if he wants to try - and tell him to bring [catcher Jorge] Posada, because he's the one Yankee I can't stand."

Meanwhile, Yankee fans attending last night's game at Boston's Fenway Park cheered the find.

"Dig it up, and get it out of there," said Norberto Diaz, 35. "They should give the next guy $156 an hour to dig it up."

Additional reporting by Jennifer Fermino in Boston and Matthew Nestel in NY

brad.hamilton@nypost.com

Fucking asshole Red Sux fans.:ohno:

OK. This is said to be the seating chart of the new YS. I can't confirm the validity of this but it looks interesting, never the less. Notice out the colorings on that. :nuts::

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That whole shirt thing is funny.

Stadium's looking great! I'm actually pretty disappointed about the planned lettering above Yankee Stadium. Those letters are different from what's adorning Yankee Stadium right now. They should move those old letters over-- they've been at Yankee Stadium since the 1950s, even surviving the 1970s renovation.

that shirt thing was ridiculous, why didn't the guy just keep his mouth shut till after it was done?

Now the shirt will go in Yankee Hall of Fame in the new stadium, so the red sox do get a piece of there property in there.

The stadium is coming along very nicely. It is quite beautiful, despite my misgivings about its financing and location.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04142008/news/regionalnews/a_yankee_hexcavation_106446.htm
A YANKEE 'HEX'CAVATION

NEW STADIUM DE'SOX'IFIED IN JERSEY DIG

By C.J. SULLIVAN, JOE MOLLICA and ERIC LENKOWITZ

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GET THE 'RED' OUT! Yankee President Randy Levine, with the team's chief operating officer, Lonn Trost, addresses the media yesterday moments before hardhats pulled out the Sox jersey.

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Hardhats pulled out the Sox jersey at Yankees stadium.

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GINO CASTIGNOLI

Traitor might be charged

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DIRTY 'UNDER'WEAR: Frank Gramarossa, one of two hero hardhats who led Yankee brass to the site, yesterday shows the mucked-up Red Sox jersey that had been buried by a colleague.

The Yankees officially reversed the jersey curse yesterday - extracting from the new stadium's concrete a David Ortiz shirt planted by a Red Sox-obsessed hardhat hoping to hex his team's arch rivals.

Then they warned the traitorous construction worker, Gino Castignoli, to watch his back, saying criminal and civil charges could be on deck.

"I spoke with a [prosecutor]. There may be criminal issues," Yankee Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost said.

Trost speculated that Castignoli could be on the hook for criminal mischief.

A spokesman for the Bronx district attorney said, "We can't speculate" on possible charges.

Trost said that even if Castignoli ends up safe from charges, "we're thinking of a civil case, looking for money damages."

Yesterday's excavation alone cost the team $50,000, Trost said, even though the actual digging took two workers just 15 minutes.

The jersey was partially unearthed Saturday after five hours of digging at the site near a planned restaurant behind home plate.

It had been buried two feet beneath the surface.

The recovery did double duty - not only taking the hex off the Yankees, but also putting one on Ortiz. The Red Sox kept the slumping slugger out of the starting lineup for last night's game against the Bombers, saying he was taking a "mental day off."

Yankee President Randy Levine yesterday proudly held up the tattered shirt, which he said would be donated to Boston's Jimmy Fund for auction to raise money for cancer treatment and research.

"We turned this dastardly act into a positive one," Levine said. He lavished praise upon The Post for bringing it to the team's attention.

"We want to thank The Post for raising this issue," Levine said. "Two heroic construction workers gave us a tip where the shirt was, and we acted immediately."

One of those workers, Frank Gramarossa, who led the removal, said: "I'm glad we got it out. I was angry and upset and wanted to find the jersey."

Castignoli, a self-professed Yankee hater, yesterday said he had spent just one day on the site, working strictly to plant the jersey. "A lot of my friends work there, and they said it was easy work," he said outside his Bronx home. "I told them I wouldn't work there, but then one day a few months later, I said, 'I could just go and jinx that stadium.' "

Castignoli said workers at the site long knew of his devilish doings.

"Anybody with half a brain knows it was all done in fun," he said.

"I didn't hurt nobody."

Additional reporting

by Denise Buffa

cj.sullivan@nypost.com

A Hero!
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So instead of just leaving it there, like the dead mob bodies under Giants stadium, they spent $50,000 to pull this out...does it real cost that much to break though concrete? No, ive done it for less on construction sites. This was a waste of time by the Yankees and if the prosecutor goes after him, then he is just looking to get more news time and is not out for "justice" Justice is the Yankees turning into the worst team ever for the next 200 years and being legends on paper and not on the field.

Besides, who has had all the success lately? THE RED SOX!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04152008/news/regionalnews/no__1_fan_bar_none_106583.htm
NO. 1 FAN 'BAR' NONE

PUBSTER'S SOX-POX TIP

By JEREMY OLSHAN

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WAY TO GO: Billy DiCristina was at a bar when he tipped The Post to Friday's story that...

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resulted in a buried Red Sox jersey being dug out of the concrete at the new Yankee Stadium.

April 15, 2008 --

Were it not for the tale one loyal Yankee fan overheard while downing pints of Guinness at a Bay Ridge bar, that Red Sox jersey would still be embedded in the concrete under the new Stadium.

Billy DiCristina, 27, a carpenter from Bensonhurst, had just watched the Rangers playoff game at the Bean Post Pub early last Thursday morning, when a fellow patron with whom he was vaguely acquainted told the story of a Red Sox jersey that had been buried in an effort to curse the Stadium.

"I asked him about it, and at first I thought he was breaking my chops," DiCristina told The Post. "But when he said he was 'dead serious,' I went crazy. I was furious. I said, 'We have to get that Boston garbage out of our Stadium' "

"Give me The Post," DiCristina shouted to the bartender, and began dialing every number he could find on Page 2, including the circulation and customer service departments.

He ended up leaving a series of slurred, rambling, giggling messages on the voice mail of one reporter who had recently written about the stadium, calling it an "anonymous tip."

"I had had a few too many I guess, and I forgot to leave my phone number," he said yesterday.

The Post was able to find construction workers to confirm the tip, and by Sunday the insidious David Ortiz jersey had been unearthed and would no longer be poisoning the new ballpark.

When DiCristina saw the front page on Friday, then Monday's story about lifting the curse, he was thrilled - even if he didn't get any credit.

"I'm not really a superstitious kind of dude, but I'm just glad it is out of the ground, because it would have been eating me up every time I went to the new stadium," he said.

"I'm sure the people who dug it up felt the same way, and if they hadn't done it soon I might have headed over there and done it myself."

DiCristina was also glad to hear it was a David Ortiz jersey.

"I think all Yankee fans will agree with me that Ted Williams would have been much worse."

As for stadium saboteur Gino Castignole, DiCristina said he hopes "he gets what's coming to him."

The Bronx turncoat will not face criminal charges, a spokesman for the Bronx DA told The Post. But having spent $50,000 to tear up the concrete, Yankee brass say they are considering taking the traitor to court.

Gino Castignole Jr., the culprit's son, said his father would do it all over again if he had the chance.

"I think it's great what my father did," he said. "It feels good to represent the Red Sox in The Bronx, and now everyone knows it."

Meanwhile, the Yanks are planning an out-of-this world ceremony prior to tomorrow's game against the Red Sox.

Astronaut Garrett Reisman, a New Jersey native, will float a zero-gravity ceremonial first pitch from the International Space Station.

Additional reporting by C.J. Sullivan and Denise Buffa, with Post Wires

jeremy.olshan@nypost.com

$50,000 to remove it are they for real? 5 hours digging, surely its a one man job so $10,000 an hour minus a few hundred bucks for new concrete :nuts:

New York Hero......
Fat
Cross Eyed
Cover in bad tattoos....its Jeremy Shocky!
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I'm really sorry your Cowboys got whupped by the Giants and that Tony Romo got what was coming to his sorry ass, and I understand that you're still hurting from it so much (months after the fact) and that that's why all you ever post on this thread about the construction of a beautiful new stadium comes from your hatred of New York teams (that understandably have more history than any team from that suburban jungle down south). I understand that schadenfreude that you feel when "bad" things happen to New York teams. But is this really the thread for that?

So while burying rags in the cement at Yankee Stadium is relevant, all the other sport rivalry attitude doesn't really belong here. Talk all you want about how you hate the limestone, but why don't we stop trolling with sport rivalry.

Really? im pissed about the Giants beating the Cowboys in a great game that i had no problems with and the better team went on to Win The Super Bowl, seriously, not mad at the Giants, they beat the Cheaters so all is well for me.

Now the Yankees, EVERYONE NOT ON YOUR LITTLE ISLAND HATES THE YANKEES! is that news to you? are you so closed minded?

and this stadium, not the beautiful, looks like some old Nazi architecture from the Rienlands! I think that the Imperial forces from star wars would enjoy themselves here, now where is the pointless ventilation shaft that we can shoot a torpedo down and blow this over priced junk ward to bits?

Rivalry has nothing to do with this because baseball is a pointless sport anyways and deserves to be played in 100 seat stadiums to the stadiums will actually be sold out for every game. I watch Baseball to put my self to sleep at night. Rivalry? No, pure dislike of "Americas Pastime" (ya right) thats what it is. Why cant we call Americas Pastime a sport we actually invented...BASKETBALL then Football and Nascar

Now the Yankees, EVERYONE NOT ON YOUR LITTLE ISLAND HATES THE YANKEES! is that news to you? are you so closed minded?


Exactly. We all know this and Yankee fans love it and revel in it because in the end, they're still the team with the most world championships. They're also the only team that can sell out in most cities they play because they also have fans in every city they play. I say bring on the rivalry, but do it in another thread where rivalry is not off topic.


and this stadium, not the beautiful, looks like some old Nazi architecture from the Rienlands! I think that the Imperial forces from star wars would enjoy themselves here, now where is the pointless ventilation shaft that we can shoot a torpedo down and blow this over priced junk ward to bits?


As long as you talk about the stadium, that's cool. I don't care if you hate the way the stadium looks or if you love the way the stadium looks. That's subjective. But that statement below is another trolling sort of thing that doesn't belong on a thread about the damn stadium (and why the heck is this not in the stadium subforum anyway?). You want to piss on the Yankees? There's a thread about it in the NY subforum. You want to piss on baseball? Make a thread about it in the NA Skybar. You want to piss on this stadium? Ok. THat's fine. They say there won't be long lines to the bathroom in the new Yankee Stadium.

Rivalry has nothing to do with this because baseball is a pointless sport anyways and deserves to be played in 100 seat stadiums to the stadiums will actually be sold out for every game. I watch Baseball to put my self to sleep at night. Rivalry? No, pure dislike of "Americas Pastime" (ya right) thats what it is. Why cant we call Americas Pastime a sport we actually invented...BASKETBALL then Football and Nascar

^^ Well said. "Little Island"... cute.

did i say i wanted to piss on it? nope, i dont see that, your making up things just like your senator! it is a New Yorker thing then.

haha Reinlands...?
*grabs popcorn*

say, by chance, that I embedded numerous shirts and belts in the new Yankee stadium. They dont have any Red Sox written on it, will the NY construction workers still dig it out? I think I made a mistake.

I want to think of something funny to say about burying things in concrete, but i would probably have to explian it. I dont wanna do that.

I applaud your restraint.

This staidum is too similar to the one across it, a waste of money i say....
can they just design something completely new, something like the citi field(even though is based on old stadiums)?or anything more modern looking?

i live ten blocks away from it, and i look at it often, but is just so similar to the other one!whats the point?

I agree Crioyo. I like the old stadium. I don't see anything wrong with it!

Why were the stands at the old yankee stadium built at that angle, it seems to me like they don't fit the pitch at all, its like building a triangular footy stadium.... ???

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04172008/news/regionalnews/boston_hex_it_106859.htm
BOSTON HEX-IT

By JEREMY OLSHAN

April 17, 2008 -- The jinxing jersey a Red Sox fan buried under the new Yankee Stadium is now back in Boston where it belongs and will be on display from today at the city's sports museum.

The Yankees spent $50,000 to jackhammer the jersey out of the concrete on Sunday after The Post revealed that Boston-loving saboteur Gino Castignoli buried it in an effort to curse the team for 30 years.

The jersey will be the featured attraction of "Cementing the Rivalry," a new exhibit at the Sports Museum at TD Banknorth Garden.

Maybe the 50K covers the repouring of a new slab? Anyway, shame on the poor pitiful boosox. Yanks will always be my favorite.

Mets are a close second.

Oh and Dallasbrink... shut up. You make Texas look bad. I live in Texas and am a diehard Yankee fan.

thats what i would come to expect from someone from Abilene

Mature man. Real mature.

Dallasbrink is an immature little snot who blows hot air out their ass and considers it to be logical thought or assertion. Nothing could be further from the truth.

And one from Dallas shouldn't be criticizing the new Yankee Stadium when the Rangers play in that piece of shit in Arlington.

And that "little island" is home to over 1 million people and a good number of America's biggest corporations, so Manhattan has more going for it than the entire redneck hick cesspool known as Texas.

you make me laugh hoosier, you make me laugh. you just follow me from thread to thread on this site and the other site and talk shit, its easier to ignore you.

Keep in mind that this thread is not to talk about the Yankees themselves.

To be honest, since I live in Texas the only major league games i've gone to in the last several years have been in the Ballpark in Arlington. I like the stadium. It is very no-frills. Just baseball. It feels very old-fashioned and I like that. That being said, the new Yankee Stadium (and Citi Field) look like they may be following that same thread -- a gorgeous stadium that joins the comforts of modernity with the beauty of oldtime fields. I had the privilege of visiting both new stadiums last month and they look AMAZING. I remember how cramped Yankee and Shea Stadiums were, despite their charm and history.

you make me laugh hoosier, you make me laugh. you just follow me from thread to thread on this site and the other site and talk shit, its easier to ignore you.

Bruh. I like to visit this thread to see the progress on the new stadium and the area surrounding it. You are not adding anything to the thread with your posts. The least you can do is make a contribution to the thread that has something to do with the construction of the stadium.

I found this awesome thread. I can't believe anyone complains about a new stadium after looking at something like this:

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=58009

That's what I call a stadium! awesome design.

Now the Yankees, EVERYONE NOT ON YOUR LITTLE ISLAND HATES THE YANKEES! is that news to you? are you so closed minded?

:lol:Bronx isn't on Long Island or Manhattan.

Dallas thought NYC was an island? LMAO!!!!:lol::lol::nuts::nuts:

4 of the 5 boroughs are located on islands or islands themselves. :D

4 of the 5 boroughs are located on islands or islands themselves. :D

Yes, but Yankee stadium is in the Bronx and the Bronx is on the mainland.

I've shocking news for that dallas droopy, I'm a yankee fan from outside New York. :D