Dates Set for Final Games at Yankee & Shea Stadiums

[brewcityboii]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3016666

[SportsWorld]

$1,000,000 says ESPN will be at both games.

[Da Schwab]

I already have tickets reserved for the last series at Yankees Stadium. It'll be a sad day when they shut it down.

BTW, least they could've done was scheduled the Sawx for a true goodbye series.

[trwi7]

$1,000,000 says ESPN will be at both games.

If anybody takes that bet it's the easiest $1,000,000 of your life.

[SportsWorld]

Even if it wasn't the last game ever at Yankee Stadium...ESPN would still probably be there.

[livestrong4ever]

$1,000,000 says ESPN will be at both games.

umm... duh?

[HeelSox]

$1,000,000 says ESPN will be at both games.

$2,000,000 says I breathe sometime today

[Abraham Lincoln]

$10,000,000 says you are a fool if you don't think the last game at Yankee stadium should get coverage.

[studcrackers]

im shocked the last yankee game wont be on the last day of the season.

also i think me and friends are planning on going there next year before the end of the year, it'd be one of my biggest regrets if i didnt get to see it before they stopped playing there.

i hate the yanks more than anyone but i love there history.

[SportsWorld]

$10,000,000 says you are a fool if you don't think the last game at Yankee stadium should get coverage.

Was the last baseball game at Tiger Stadium on ESPN?
I don't think so.
Just East Coast Bias at it's best.

[WEFFPIM]

ESPN and the sports world would be chastised for not being at the final game of Yankee Stadium. Shea Stadium, who gives a crap, but Yankee Stadium I completely agree with them being there.

[Scalabrine]

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Was the last baseball game at Tiger Stadium on ESPN?
I don't think so.
Just East Coast Bias at it's best.

or it may be a bias to the most heralded franchise in baseball and sports history?

you could be right though

[VinnyTheMick]

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Was the last baseball game at Tiger Stadium on ESPN?
I don't think so.
Just East Coast Bias at it's best.

The funniest thing is, some of Tiger Stadium's biggest moments belong to the Yankees (Ruth's 700th HR, Gehrig's last game, Reggie Jackson's ASG home run etc...)

But hey, you are right. Yankee Stadium doesn't have anymore history than Tiger Stadium. I mean, look how little has happened there:

-Since its 1923 opening, 37 of 83 World Series have been played at Yankee Stadium, with the Yankees winning 26. Sixteen of those 37 World Series were clinched at Yankee Stadium (9 for the Yankees, 2 for the Cardinals, 1 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1 for the Milwaukee Braves, 1 for the Reds, 1 for the LA Dodgers & 1 for the Marlins) .


-Some of the most famous boxing matches ever, including one with Joe Louis, a black American, squaring off against Schmeling, a German. With his Nazi Party on the verge of taking over much of Europe, Adolf Hitler followed the rematch carefully, imploring Schmeling to defeat Louis, whom Hitler publicly berated. This left some with a moral predicament: root for the black fighter or for the Nazi. Schmeling had defeated Louis in 1936, but in defense of his title Louis knocked out Schmeling in the first round.

-On July 1, 1939, Max Baer defeated Lou Nova at Yankee Stadium, the first televised boxing match in the United States.

-Notre Dame vs. Army games (one of the biggest rivalries in College football & possibly the biggest at the time) took place their for over 20 years.

-The New York Giants played their home games at Yankee Stadium from 1956 to 1973. On December 28, 1958, Yankee Stadium hosted the National Football League championship game, frequently called "the greatest game ever played." The Baltimore Colts tied the Giants, 17-17, on a field goal with seven seconds left. Led by quarterback Johnny Unitas, the Colts won in overtime, 23-17. The game's dramatic ending is often cited as elevating football to one of the United States' major sports.

-In 1971 and 1976, the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League played their home games at Yankee Stadium. In the latter year, the team's star attraction was Pele. The Brazil native, known as the King of Football, was considered the best player in the world.

-Francis Cardinal Spellman (1957), Pope Paul VI (1965), and Pope John Paul II (1969 as a cardinal, 1979 as pope) all celebrated Mass at the ballpark.

-On June 21, 1990, a rally was held at Yankee Stadium for Nelson Mandela upon his release from prison following the end of apartheid in South Africa.

-On September 23, 2001, Yankee Stadium hosted a memorial service for victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

& thats not even all the historic things that have taken place in Yankee Stadium. So, with all due respect, you can take you east coast bias & shove it up your ass. With all the history that has taken place in that ballpark, there is no reason why the last regular season baseball game ever held there SHOULDN'T be televised.

[studcrackers]

does bob shepard stay with old yankee stadium and be buried with it or will he move into the new stadium?

[Abraham Lincoln]

ESPN and the sports world would be chastised for not being at the final game of Yankee Stadium. Shea Stadium, who gives a crap, but Yankee Stadium I completely agree with them being there.

This man speaks the truth.