The Yankee Stadium Tell-All

  For those of you who haven't gone yet, you must see a game at Yankee Stadium.  There's nothing like it, especially during playoff time.  Some may say that baseball games are too boring to sit through for nine innings.  Come on now! Enjoy yourself and have some fun screaming your lungs out for your favorite team!  Get up on the chairs and cheer like everyone else is doing!  I have been to those games where you just want to leave after five innings because nothing is happening and it seems never-ending, but honestly how often do you really get to go to Yankee games?  Think about it.  You're not going to go to a game every weekend, let alone every month.  Might as well enjoy yourself with the other 30,000+ fans who are freezing in their seats just as you are, cheering as loud as they can for the Yankees. 

   I loved going to games at the old Yankee Stadium.  The noise was deafening, nobody could hear themselves talk, and it was a nightmare for the visiting team.  That's exactly what it is all about.  You want the other teams' players to get frustrated in the batter's box, while trying to focus on the pitches.  The visiting team's pitcher should show signs of nervousness and frustration when the fans are screaming their heads off to distract him.  At the new Yankee Stadium this doesn't happen much at all.

   As said in a Wikipedia page that I found about Yankee Stadium: "The stadium has also been criticized for its lack of fan noise. During a Sunday Night Baseball telecast in 2012, commentator and former Red Sox manager Terry Francona spoke about the different atmospheres in the old and new stadiums saying that 'As a visiting team, especially for the Red Sox, by the time the (national) anthem was over, you couldn’t wait to get back in the dugout. Now (there is) a little different (kind) of fan sitting around down there by the dugout. Games at the new stadium do not feature the same deafening crowd moments and often sound eerily silent.^[75] The lack of fan noise has been noticeable in the 2012 playoffs as well, with thousands of unsold seats for Game 5 of the ALDS and Games 1 and 2 of the ALCS. 'This is a very easy place to play now', said Quintin Berry of the Detroit Tigers, the Yankees' ALCS opponents. Coming from Oakland, the fans there were so rowdy. It was easier to come here."

   Really Quintin Berry? It's an easy place to play now? I don't think New York is ever an easy city to play in, especially during the ALCS playoffs. A lot of players have trouble playing in New York because of the amount of pressure the fans give to the players during the game. You think A.J. Burnett or Alex Rodriguez would say it was easy to play here, having been booed so many times. New York fans are some of the greatest and most loyal fans around. I do not think they would ever make it easy on any team to play here.

   This is what I added to the Wikipedia page:
   Yankee Stadium has always been a tough stadium to play in due to the amount of pressure the fans put on the players. The noise, especially during playoff season, is something to experience. The whole stadium is lit up; the fans are running around the streets chanting for the Yankees. Even some Yankee players, such as A.J. Burnett had a tough time playing in New York due to the amount of pressure. Baseball players from other teams look forward to playing here because of the experience. It is like no other stadium.



Little known fact: Yankee Stadium was originally considered to be a left-handers ballpark because of the amount of space on the left field side.  Although the dimensions of the ballpark have not changed once the Yankees moved to the new stadium, the seating capacity and size of the main score board have changed dramatically.