Hockey

transjen · #1 01-05-2010

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Originally Posted by shadows

You, me, and Jennifer would probably end up kicked out of the stadium for "causing a ruckus".

I take it you never been to a PHILLIES,FLYERS or EAGLES game

Jerseygirl Jen

shadows · #2 01-06-2010

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Originally Posted by transjen

I take it you never been to a PHILLIES,FLYERS or EAGLES game

Jerseygirl Jen

No, I haven't. I take it ruckuses are an everyday occurence?

transjen · #3 01-06-2010

Oh yeah, if the fans fell a player is not giving his all the boo birds flock in and let him have it
Acouple years ago the Phillies had a real bum as closer Josa Mesa and i bbod him like crazy rhis bozo would enter a game up 2 in the nineth and the final the Phillies lost by one as he walked three batters and gave up singles doubles homers he just blow game after game i couldn't stand the bum and i was not the only one at Vet stadium that couldn't stand him

Jerseygirl Jen

dauls · #4 01-06-2010

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Originally Posted by transjen

Oh yeah, if the fans fell a player is not giving his all the boo birds flock in and let him have it
Acouple years ago the Phillies had a real bum as closer Josa Mesa and i bbod him like crazy rhis bozo would enter a game up 2 in the nineth and the final the Phillies lost by one as he walked three batters and gave up singles doubles homers he just blow game after game i couldn't stand the bum and i was not the only one at Vet stadium that couldn't stand him

Jerseygirl Jen

The Vet, that's where I saw my Phillies games in the early 90s. If I remember correctly I usually sat behind the left foul line on the lowest level, but back a bit underneath the second tier.

Before that my experience of sports stadia was the crumbling piles of sh

t we called football (soccer) grounds in England. When I first went to the old Wembley in 1982 I was so excited to be going to our National Stadium... what a f

ing dump. It was such a disappointment for this young sports fan. So to me The Vet looked fine.

Back in England watching baseball on TV the pundits always said they thought The Vet was one of the worst baseball grounds.

It was a shock because it was so much better than the English football grounds I'd visited in the 80s and very early 90s. But from 1992 Sky TV (Rupert Murdoch) started throwing money at English football and the standard of the top club's grounds has improved.

Before The Vet the only baseball game I saw was in 1990 sat up in the clouds at the late Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. Pirates beat Expos 6-1, no idea which significant players were playing that day.

Now both of the baseball grounds I've been to have been demolished. So next time I visit North America to watch some baseball, which stadium deserves its death sentence?

shadows · #5 01-06-2010

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Now both of the baseball grounds I've been to have been demolished. So next time I visit North America to watch some baseball, which stadium deserves its death sentence?

The new Yankee stadium. The owner is a multi-billionaire yet he had the gall to ask the city of New York to use taxpayer's money to offset some of the costs. If you want a stadium that costs more than a billion dollars to build, then pay for it yourself. I can't stand Steinbrenner. He is one of the main reasons there is NO parity in MLB right now. There is no need for a team to cost more than a 1/4 billion dollars a season(in salary alone!). Honestly, baseball needs a salary cap and I am not just saying this because I am a fan of a team that is always on the outside looking in.

I have a feeling that if baseball continues like it is(the luxury tax is a f'ing joke) then there will be several teams that will probably fold up or relocate.

smc · #6 01-06-2010

It must be said: until you've attended a game at Fenway Park, you haven't really experienced a live baseball game (unless you're old enough to remember all the other really old ballparks that are long since gone).

#7 01-06-2010

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Originally Posted by dauls

Before that my experience of sports stadia was the crumbling piles of sh

t we called football (soccer) grounds in England. When I first went to the old Wembley in 1982 I was so excited to be going to our National Stadium... what a f

ing dump. It was such a disappointment for this young sports fan.

I went to the old Wembley three times - two football matches and a gig - and it really was a disgrace. Although I'm not exactly ecstatic about Sky and some of what's happened to the game in the last twenty years or so, I have to admit the improvements in grounds, even in the lower leagues, is to be applauded.

transjen · #8 01-06-2010

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Originally Posted by dauls

The Vet, that's where I saw my Phillies games in the early 90s. If I remember correctly I usually sat behind the left foul line on the lowest level, but back a bit underneath the second tier.

Talk about a small world, I was proably 1 deck up in the same area or close to it, I went to the Vet from the mid 80s till it was done away with two seasons ago i liked the Vet by the new park is way better,Ashame you missed seeing Phillie greats like Steve Carlton and Mike Schmidt the all time greatest Phillie and greatest 3rd baseman ever

Jerseygirl Jen

shadows · #9 01-06-2010

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Originally Posted by transjen

Oh yeah, if the fans fell a player is not giving his all the boo birds flock in and let him have it
Acouple years ago the Phillies had a real bum as closer Josa Mesa and i bbod him like crazy rhis bozo would enter a game up 2 in the nineth and the final the Phillies lost by one as he walked three batters and gave up singles doubles homers he just blow game after game i couldn't stand the bum and i was not the only one at Vet stadium that couldn't stand him

Jerseygirl Jen

I can just imagine how lustily you booed Brad Lidge this past season.

I am surprised he made it through the season in one piece!