Posted on 11/04/2009 9:26:39 PM PST by GoldStandard
Reporting from New York - The grand opening year for the new Yankee Stadium concluded in grand fashion, in the only way the New York Yankees know how.
In 1923, the inaugural season for the old Yankee Stadium, the Yankees won the World Series in six games, with three home runs from Babe Ruth.
In 2009, the Yankees won the World Series in six games, with three home runs from Hideki Matsui.
In what could have been the final game of his career with the Yankees, Matsui homered and drove in six runs, lifting New York to a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.
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GO YANKS!!!!!!!!!
Ted Williams must be turning over in his ice bath.
Congrats!!!! Nice job. Glad to see Matsui get the MVP.
Thank Goodness!.....................Thank goodness that boring game is over and off the airwaves. Now maybe I can see House.
As a diehard Phillies fan, my hat’s off to the Yankees. They were the better team in this Series!
Matsui had a darn fine game!
Godzilla lives !!!
I love Lou Gehrig!! I love the Yankees!! I am happy tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like Matsui, but he goes to Shemp Howard’s barber.
A Roid seems to be “enjoying” himself a bit too much in that photo..
The first novel I ever read read was actually a bio of Gehrig. I was in the 4th grade. I should have stolen that book. The pickeled eels was something else! :^)
the richest franchise in all of sports....who will they buy next year?
Gack - another baseball season finished, and I’m already having withdrawal. Gack gack gack.
Must. go. to. St. Petersburg. Florida. sit. in. bleachers.
This just goes to show that despite all the obstacles they faced the richest team in MLB can win a world series.
The Clinton Curse ENDS!
Sorry to be a wet towel, but baseball has lost its appeal to me. From the high ticket prices, cost of food & beverages, parking... it's just not worth going to a game. They've priced the average fan out of the stadium.
I am soooo tired of listening to McCarver & Joe Buck. Will they ever put a sock in it?
...and don't even get me started on the 'thump-thump' beat on ESPN during the highlights.
You sound like a White House press release.
I’m female and a HUGE Yankee fan. Some of my earliest and greatest childhood memories are sitting on my Dad’s lap watching the Yankees on channel 11 out of NY. I swear that’s the only reason we got cable in the late 70’s was because we could watch Yankee games with Phil Rizzuto announcing on channel 11. I recently remodeled my kitchen and couldn’t decide on a theme. I’m not one of those country kitchen type people or flowery wallpaper types. So I painted it white and Yankee blue and put up Yankee border and have pictures of all the great Yankees hung everywhere. Countertop is even yankee blue. My mother in law thinks I’m crazy, but I’ve gotten tons of complements, even from a Redsox loving nephew! (Sorry for the vanity post but I’ve waited 9 years for this!!) The first photo I put up was Lou Gehrig, and I probably read that same bio you wrote about. I liked how he used to put lead weights in his boots in the off season so that when he went hunting and walked through the woods, it strengthened his legs. Just think of what he could have done if he hadn’t gotten sick.
You got that right John. Since when do people at freerepublic not believe in the free market and spending your money as you see fit? I guess only when their team doesn’t win the world series!?
So easy, even a cave man can win a World Series.
Remember those old WW2 movies where they would ask Jap infiltrators questions about American baseball? Now it’s as big there as here. All because we occupied Japan after the war and out of boredom, taught them to play ball. No one could have imagined back then that a Japanese native would be the MVP of the World Series.
Big mistake to let Phillis pitch.
#27 feels like Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!
Phillis Martinez?
The end of the Hillary curse.. finally. Hopefully forever!
No, the biggest BOUGHT franchise in all of sports...
To the spoiled go the victors.
To quote the great Florida Evens, “Damn, Damn, Damn!”.
The Yankees BOUGHT their 27th World Series
The Yankees players BEAT the Phillies players. “Bought” has nothing to do with the playing of the game.
How can I support the Yankees?! They only win when the Rats are in the White House!
4 times during the Clinton administration
2 times during the Carter administration
2 times during the Kennedy administration.
Never when Bush 41 or 43 were in office, nor Reagan, Ford, or Nixon!
I love my Yanks!
Are you not going to buy the best talent money can buy?
You have to go to some of the RED SOX baseball forums and read what they have to say. Never have I seen such pure hared exhibited for a sports team as these people have for the NYY (to befair, the exhibit this same hatred towards anyone or anything not in their little world).
The actually want certain players dead, complain incessantly that the umps are being paid off, etc.
I had the misfortune to spend 12 years in MA and can tell you from exprence these are the most hate filled people imaginable, especially toward anyone not deemed “one of them”
There is a term used to describe citizens of MA (not coined by me) and that’s “Massholes”. There is reason for this.
Have you a problem with our system of capitalism? Or are you saying somehow the NNY broke he law, did something unethical or perhaps even outright dishonest?
Was there any celebratory looting in Gotham City?
The best team money can buy. Jerry Jones is jealous.
That’s very classy of you! I’m glad the Yankees had to battle the best of the NL to win the World Series...
# 1 is hated by many and is loved by many, not just in sports but in everything else in life. Go Yankees, the most successful team in all sports.
A guy could walk around NYC all day wearing Red Sox gear and he would not be harassed. Not a good idea to wear Yankee gear in Boston. Very likely you will get your ass kicked.
Red Sox fans are basically a bunch of malcontents. They can't get over the fact that the owner of the club traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919. The Red Sox owner sold the Babe so he could finance a Broadway play called No No Nanette. So basically the money stayed in NY, NY got the Babe and Boston got screwed.
This eats away at Red Sox fans to this day.
I thought that was the whole idea about being successful. You hire the best people in the business for your particlar line of work. Then you give them the tools and support they need to beat the crap out of the competition. If they don't produce you cut them loose.
Is this just a New York concept? Is money evil?
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