Tonight NYC is hosting its first Major League Baseball All-Star game since 1977. But that's not really what makes it such a big deal. This will be the last major event held at "the house that Ruth built" before it's torn down at the end of this season and the Yankees move to their new beautiful stadium next year.
64 All-Stars and 1 Baseball Monument
That means, besides the rest of the regular baseball games for this season, there'll be no more rock concerts or Papal masses or graduation ceremonies, etc. held there. I guess if the Yanks make it to the World Series then maybe those games will become the last major events at the old stadium but, based on how the team has performed over the last few seasons, I wouldn't count on it.
The old Yankee stadium's days are ticking down, the sand in the hour glass almost all gone. And New York City baseball will never be the same.
So here's to you Yankee stadium. The Babe and the Scooter, Yogi and Reggie, David Wells and A-Rod all did you proud. When you're gone and New Yorkers are filing into your replacement, they may find it more modern and user-friendly. But I'll miss you, ya old dump, because, well ... your seedy greatness can never be replicated. Seedy greatness is what made you, for more than 80 years, part of the soul of this city. Seedy greatness is what makes New York City New York City. So let's hope tonight's All Star Game will give you a good show. You deserve it. You will be missed.
64 All-Stars and 1 Baseball Monument
That means, besides the rest of the regular baseball games for this season, there'll be no more rock concerts or Papal masses or graduation ceremonies, etc. held there. I guess if the Yanks make it to the World Series then maybe those games will become the last major events at the old stadium but, based on how the team has performed over the last few seasons, I wouldn't count on it.
The old Yankee stadium's days are ticking down, the sand in the hour glass almost all gone. And New York City baseball will never be the same.
So here's to you Yankee stadium. The Babe and the Scooter, Yogi and Reggie, David Wells and A-Rod all did you proud. When you're gone and New Yorkers are filing into your replacement, they may find it more modern and user-friendly. But I'll miss you, ya old dump, because, well ... your seedy greatness can never be replicated. Seedy greatness is what made you, for more than 80 years, part of the soul of this city. Seedy greatness is what makes New York City New York City. So let's hope tonight's All Star Game will give you a good show. You deserve it. You will be missed.
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