Tim Marchman Slams Yankee Stadium
Tim Marchman, a writer for the New York Sun, on the soon to be closed Yankee Stadium:
Yankee Stadium is on the merits one of the worst places in the country to watch a ballgame, and there’s really little that’s more hilarious in baseball than the pretense that this giant concrete bowl is some magnificent cathedral and monument to the glories of the game. It just drips with pompousness and fake old-timiness, and I won’t miss it at all.
Ouch. With all the attention given to the last year of Yankee Stadium Marchman’s comments are a bit shocking.
I’ve never been to a game at Yankee Stadium (something I regret) but I’ve read the same type comments about Fenway, a park I adore, so I doubt I’d agree with Marchman. I’ll admit I’ve never thought Yankee Stadium was very impressive on television, but it seems to me that it’s the history that’s happened in that “concrete bowl” that makes is special, and not the architecture.
I’ve always thought the monuments in the outfield were a little cheesy, but that probably stems from Roger Clemens’ narcissistic habit of visiting them before each game.
