Yankees monitoring wind in homer-happy park

[joeybee12]

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30701989/

NEW YORK - While monitoring the wind, home runs and empty seats close to the field at their new ballpark, the New York Yankees are selling off their old stadium in bits and pieces.

Chief operating officer Lonn Trost said more wind studies will be done at the $1.5 billion new Yankee Stadium, but the weather during the first two homestands might have been unusual. Forty-seven home runs hit, four shy of the record for the first 13 games at a major league ballpark. Thirty-two of the homers were hit to right field.

“There were wind studies performed before. There will be wind studies performed as we go forward, and we’re just looking like you are to see whether or not it’s the weather, the wind, what happens when the old building goes down,” Trost said Tuesday.

[LisaM]

1. I am so over new Yankee Stadium

it needs to take its fifteen minutes of fame and go away.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Is Briggs/Tiger Stadium still standing around? nt

[LisaM]

3. Not really - though they are still fighting to preserve a corner of it

perhaps you've heard of the crazy antics of the Detroit City Council and its former mayor? They don't really ever seem to get much done in the D (though when I went to a game at the new one last summer, the area around the stadium was quite nicely kept and felt safe). It's too bad, because Detroit was, and could be, a really beautiful city.