Yankee Stadium 2008

Here's the tickets. Yea!

Sven and I drove up the day before, and ended up staying at a hotel in New Jersey. Finding an available/open/with-vacancies hotel in New Jersey proved to be a real adventure... mainly because New Jersey has managed to do everything completely stupid. You could see hotels, but to get to them required driving a mile or two in a giant circle. In closing, New Jersey sucks.

So this is the Inn we found... it had mirrors everywhere.... so.. yeah.

Here is our first glimpse of new Yankee Stadium.

Sen and I found a great (free) parking spot, and we walked around the new construction site, which is right next to old Yankee Stadium.

Men at Work.

It is classy looking.

Here's a view through the construction at Old Yankee Stadium.

Here's a mural across the street... nicely ruined by graffiti.

Here's a stadium map.

Here's the Bat.

Here's the player's parking lot. People were all lined up taking pictures.

Yankee Stadium!

Here's Ron at Yankee Stadium. I'm really cute.

Here's Sven at Yankee Stadium!

26 Time World Champions. Selfish.

Here's Stan the Man's!

And Here's a bunch of Royals fans. Awesome. Sven and I had our Cubs hats.

We are now in the stadium, looking down on Monument Park.

Royals Batting Practice.

Ron in Yankee Stadium.

There's ... more of Yankee Stadium.

9/11 Monument in Monument Park.

18 Games left.

Pitching warm-ups.

Monument Park getting filled up.

and Sven just escaped from Shawshank Prison. it was pretty amazing.

Here I am again!

It is now the 6th inning. I am waiting in line to get food and water (It was very hot). This was the worst, most inefficient food counter ever. I was in this line for 45 minutes... People were shouting insults... and then just shouting out efficiency suggestions, many of which seemed rather wise. E.g. "Stop standing there talking to each other and just take the next order"

This is a child on a leash. It was demeaning to both parent and child.

The game!

Cleveland Flag. Detroit is right next to it.

We went into extra innings.. and many people left.

There's the line of flags.

You can see it's getting a bit sparse.

Extra Innings walk off single! Game over'd!

13th Inning!.

We are now leaving. There's our last glimpse of New Yankee stadium.

Good-bye.

When we were on our way to the stadium, we got a little lost, and drove by some cop hanging out.. so we stopped by them and asked them for help. [So here's the cop, in a thick New York accent, after telling us how to get back onto the highway.] Cop: "Where you headed?" Us: "Yankee Stadium" Cop: "Maybe you can help them win." So uh.. maybe we did. Anyway, it was a great New York moment.

Goodbye old Yankee Stadium.

Here's a quick view of the skyline as we left the city.

There's the Inn we stayed at the previous night. As you can see it's just off the highway... but to get to it you have to take the exit off this highway, drive around a bit, get onto another highway, take that for a bit, and take an exit off of that.. I tell you, it's retarded.

Here's a final passing view of the city.

Scranton! Infinite Paper in a Paperless World.