I like sushi.

"They're going to tear down Yankee Stadium. This is really happening. They're going to tear down Yankee Stadium. Will repetition get that message across?"

Well, "they" did tear down most of it during a major renovation in the '70s. They even moved the sacred monuments from centerfield.


"They're going to tear down Yankee Stadium, demolish part of the soul of this city, bulldoze a place 4 million fans will visit this season alone, destroy a shrine that has seen the biggest moments in the sport's history, and so few people seem to care."

A lot of people care. A zillion people have written the same article. Probably would have been two zillion and fifty-four thousand, but fifty-four thousand are still stuck in the postgame parking lot.

"'(Yankee Stadium) is indisputably the most famous stadium in the country, if not the world,' baseball commissioner Bud Selig said, 'an American monument that has endured for 84 years.'

So, why not 84 more?"

The urinal cakes in the troughs in the bathroom have lasted 84 years and that gum under your seat belonged to Babe Ruth himself.

Been to Yankee Stadium recently? Okay, good. It wasn't too bad, right?

But have you even been to another baseball park recently?

"'No one will ever forget the House That Ruth Built,' Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff said.

So, why make it a memory?"

The House that Ruth Built already is a memory. "They" tore down most of it during a major renovation in the '70s.


"Yes, the old place has its warts. Yes, it underwent a massive renovation in the '70s that changed much of the original design."

Oh, so you knew about that renovation thing.

So, you kind of contradicted all of your previous points.


"Now, in three years, we'll head to the Bronx, and we'll take our $100 seats in a fancy new building, complete with the manufactured charm and the $10 sushi bars and the noise-eliminating skyboxes, and we'll be able to look over at the empty space where Yankee Stadium used to be."

Sweet.


Accourding to Tim Salmon, Yankee Fan Extraordinaire: "Now they're talking about a new stadium here. Oh my gosh, how do you do that? It's like moving a burial ground. How do you take all the memories from here and move it over there? This is a monument. It's tradition. You walk up to the same plate that DiMaggio, Ruth and Gehrig did."

It's absolutely not at all like moving a burial ground. It's just a baseball stadium. That's really insulting to the sanctity of burial grounds.

Oh, and it's not the same plate the DiMaggio, Ruth, and Gehrig used. It's a different home plate. It might be the same plate that Matt Lawton or Omar Moreno used, but I'm pretty sure they replace home plate once every forty or fifty years.


Memo to Tim Salmon, Steve Politi, Wallace Matthews, and everybody else who doesn't want to go to new Yankee Stadium: I'll take your ticket.

In fact, I dare you not to go to new Yankee Stadium.