Passan: Yankees Stadium produces pinstriped pinball

Chutney · Jun 3, 2009

There is a scout who has spent a lot of time at the new Yankee Stadium, and he feels somewhat derelict in his duties when doing so.

“I’m supposed to be watching baseball, not pinball,” he said.

There is an executive whose team went to the new Yankee Stadium skeptical that it was as bad as everyone said, and he left thinking it’s worse.

“Much worse,” he said.

And then there are players. Their thoughts on the new Yankee Stadium depend on their position. Hitters enjoy it. Actually, no. Hitters pretty much don’t ever want to leave. They have found Valhalla, and it exists in right field at the most expensive ballpark ever built.

The new Yankee Stadium is a lot of things that the New York Yankees expected when they planned it. No one fathomed it would be the park that could break Coors Field’s stranglehold on the single-season home run record of 303 in 1999. More than a quarter the way through the season, the 87 home runs in 23 games at new Yankee Stadium have set a pace that extrapolates to 306.

How the perfect megastructure turned into a big question mark is a classic whodunit, or better yet, whatdidit? Neither the Yankees’ owners, the Steinbrenner family, nor the stadium’s brain trust, president Randy Levine and COO Lonn Trost, seem too terribly inclined to deliver a mea culpa about turning real baseball games into home run derbies.

For now, they can hide behind the statisticians who warn about interpreting too much from a small sample size. Such a belief is sound. Stadium data takes two years to fully interpret, and gleaning anything earlier could be folly.

And yet sometimes logic must take a backseat and the eyes must deliver judgment. Because right now, this much is certain: Yankee Stadium, for all its magnificent aesthetic value, is a pathetic excuse for a fair major league ballpark.
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Source: Yahoo!Sports

YankeesDaily · Jun 4, 2009

I think the home runs make the games more fun.

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