Class act the Yankee Club kept the name Yankee Stadium and did not sell out. Building it next door and keeping the field orientated like the old park are pluses. It says why radically change a winning building plan, Bronx location that served well for many years. No smoke and mirrors there. Focus and determination, carrying on where they came from. Hope they win it all.

Reply to demohater: While I do not like the Yankees I like what they've done in regards to their heritage and do agree with what you say to a point. Some change is good, but too much change is very bad.

The City of Detroit has almost completely erased where the Detroit Tiger's roots were planted. I say (almost) because we still have the field to shoot for.

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Hey Peter, If you and your partners are looking for ideas for the team, look into the St Paul Saints. They are owned by former White Sox/Indians/Cubs owner Bill Veeck's son, Michael, with comedian BIll Murray. They have tons of entertainment between innings, hilarious promotions and it's an all round great time, as well as great baseball.

http://www.saintsbaseball.com/news/saintsn...tml?article_id=1106

Michael was the "brains" behind the 1979 disco demolition night at Comiskey. They actually recreated the event at a Saints game a few years ago... with much better results. Its a REALLY fun atmosphere.

What I thought when 1st hearing the name Cruisers is that the owners are trying to tie in with the Detroit Dream Cruise.

You see classic car shows in mall parking lots all across the Detroit. Have a car show in the lot before a Cruiser's game.

Might be an enjoyable evening with little out of pocket expense.

Took in a Class A game in Myrtle Beach this July. Not too bad. Kind of enjoyed it.

Anyway, good luck to the Cruiser's. Any project that is capable of bring jobs to SE Michigan can't be a bad thing, can it?

Tiger stadium makes national news, if for even a trivial reason:

Bud Selig wants a throwback game in the World Series-one in daylight. The sun hasn't shone on baseball's biggest stage since 1984, when Detroit beat the San Diego Padres in Game 5 at Tiger Stadium to win the World Series. There was a single day game three years later, but it was played indoors at Minnesota's Metrodome.

Ever since, the game's signature matchup has been played under the lights, with some flickers of twilight helping illuminate the first inning of West Coast games.

Baseball's commissioner acknowledged he might not get the change he's hoping for.

The whole story is posted here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ahbe...e&prov=ap&type=lgns
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Doug/Diana: great link-knew something was different now we know.
Money to sustain the sports industry bubble. Sports pandemic everywhere. Baseball in Nov. Enough already.
Dale i agree- the store (detroit) is being looted to the bare walls.
Can't steal a field but they will try. They got the building.
I favored a angel/dodger series and if you are off the bag you are out..
jmarx: great link. I looked for the pole too.

Has anyone been following the Yankee Stadium Demolition?

I just find it amazing of the great care that seems to be going into their demolition. Its almost as if they are taking the place down brick by brick so they can sell it off.

Its almost like night and day when you compair it to Tiger Stadium. In 6 months those idiots that the city hired to do the demolition had 3/4 of it completed, where as 6 months the only thing significant they did was remove the field, seats and lights.

After seeing what the yankees are doing, I think I would have much rather have seen Tiger Stadium go the same way, instead of the disrespect the demolition company showed when they did the demo on Tiger Stadium.

I really don't hold the demo company responsible for the lack of respect displayed during the demo.
I blame it intirely on those who hired them.

The demo company should never have come back in the first place.
Navin Field should still be standing.

A plan was in place for the ballpark, but the DEGC basically crapped all over it and didn't care how the historic park came down.

My cuz is there for the ball games in nyc.
I think he mentioned the seats are all removed in the old park.
Its still standing.

Renovation, whoda thunk it?

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archive...ricketts_plans.html

I think now that the Yankees won another un-deserved championship, we will see the demolition really start to begin.

I don't think it would have looked very good for people to come to the New Yankee Stadium, and see the old one being torn down accross the street in the same manner as Tiger Stadium.

As far as Wrigley Field is concerned, I think the best they can do inside the stadium would be to replace the seats with the retro plastic ones with the team logo on the end seat.

As far as the concourse and bathrooms, there is nothing historical about that part of the building and I think that would be a welcomed renovation. The concourse can be widened, but I think it needs to be extended out into the sidewalk area outside, as I would not be in favor of cutting into the seating area.

Claude,
Why was last night's Yankee WS win undeserved? Not a big Yankee fan.

But they won. Give credit where credit is due.

27 World Series, its about time they give someone else a chance to win for a change.

Oh, Okay

Phillies won last year. Yanks haven't won since 2000. Plenty of teams have won. Everyone had a chance, they just didn't beat the Yankees.

Baseball isn't a sport where everyone gets a ribbon and get their turn at winning. You have to earn it.

I don't what all the Yankee hatred is about. Outside of NY, most people I talk to about baseball have a mad passionate hatred for the Yankees and try to talk me out of being a fan. I don't get it. I've had people yelling at me in coffee shops. Its crazy!

Yea, but Phillies won what like 4 world series where as Yankees Won 27 World Series and made it to the world series about 40 times in the past 108 years.

Thats like 39% of the time the Yankees being in the world series.

I don't have a problem with the Yankees as a team, but last year was really nice that the Yankees where NOT in the post season.

The problem is that the Yankees are on a different level then all the other baseball teams by the way they spend money and accuire players. They generate more revenue than any other team, and have the funds to re-invest in the team.

Im not necessarly saying this because I want the Tigers to Win the world series, but I get sick and tired of seeing the Yankees go again and again year after year.

If a team wants to "Earn" the world series, lets take all the payroll money and put it in a big pot and then equally divide it among all the teams and see how good the Yankees do on an equal budget.

I honestly think we need a spending cap in baseball that is realistic for all teams!