Thursday, March 12, 2009

Who Said There Was More Leg Room At The New Yankee Stadium?

We recently posted photos illustrating the much-improved leg room for the seats in the Grandstand at the New Yankee Stadium. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about these multi-year commitment, $500 per ticket seats down the first base line:


Hey, at least there is plenty of padding!*

Wherever you are sitting this morning, be happy it is not in those seats. Obviously, they are not in their permanent home (we hope!), but with how this new stadium relocation process has been going, anything is possible. After all, the Yankees did build a restaurant that blocks the view for half of the people in the bleachers!

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/thumb/6/60/Very_Tall_Man.jpg/200px-Very_Tall_Man.jpg

*Thanks to the Baseball Fever stadium construction thread via this web album for this hilarious photo.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those seats in that section simply hadn't been bolted in yet. The bolts on the ground are approximately 35 inches behind the legs to these seat. The seats are just resting against that concrete wall.

Thought I'd clear this up before we got another load of complaining uninformed whiners.

—Lon Trost

Ross said...

Attributing that comment to Lonn Trost really vibes with the blog's theme - well played.

As for the seats, it is fairly obvious that those will not be their permanent home, but it is a fun photo nonetheless.

forego is my witness said...

It's hysterical to me, going to some other blogs today (including LoHud's), how there are actually a few people out there who believe that's how those seats really are. Sad, innit?

Ross said...

There are a lot of dumb people out there, I can vouch for that.

Anonymous said...

Being an architect I can't say I'd be surprised had the seats ended up like that. I've seen some messed up things doing the punch list.

Anonymous said...

Told everyone not to hire this architect:

http://njfrogman.blogspot.com/2009/02/architect-who-designed-new-yankee.html

Nice picture!

Anonymous said...

i'm sure it will be wall to wall coverage on espn friday since its a yankee story, so rest easy. sincerely, the rest of the world.

PS - get over yourselves.

Anonymous said...

Obviously it's a joke, but every good joke has a kernel of truth...it wouldn't be any less fan friendly than anything else my team (still my team in spite of it all) has perpetrated in recent years.

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