Alumni in the Pros_April 2013

[Dafatone]

Hey, now.  Shea was the Lynah Rink of baseball.  It was a dump, but it was our dump.  I haven't been to BanksterField, but it'll never be the same.   Tradition > comfort.

I don't consider Lynah to be a dump at all.  It has a lot of great features that I like to see in a facility.  Namely, a low roof that amplifies sound, a relatively steep rake to the seating that puts you right on top of the action and it's small.  All of the above gives a nice, intimate feeling where you are close to the ice.

YMMV of course.  Some folks rate a facility based on the number of bathrooms or the comfort of the seats.  These aren't thing that I hardly care about at all.

Shea, on the other hand, had none of the nice features of old stadiums (the intimacy) and also none of the positive things about current parks. So I remember it as a dump.  Of course, I've neverbeen a Mets fan.

Shea was a dump, but it was MY dump, or something like that.  Citi Field is a nice place, but it doesn't feel Mets enough.  Making the fences blue has gone a long way towards that.  I will say Citi does a great job of giving you a nice view of the field from even the worst seats.

Huh? The fences were blue in Shea at least since the mid-80's, which means about half of that stadium's lifetime, and besides, the orange seats were much more striking anyway.

Also, if we're comparing MLB stadiums to ECAC rinks, then may I nominate Tigers Stadium.  I've never felt closer to a MLB player than I did while sitting in the last row of the upper deck looking at the on-deck circle at that old park. Nobody cared about seat comfort, but it was intimate and enclosed, and LOUD.  I also got to see Al Kaline waiting to go up to to the press box, and he stood there, shaking all the hands of everyone in the cheap-seats who recognized him. Too bad the park (and neighborhood it's in) is decaying, empty.

Citi Field.  The fences were black and orange, originally.

[Josh '99]

Shea was a dump, but it was MY dump, or something like that.  Citi Field is a nice place, but it doesn't feel Mets enough.  Making the fences blue has gone a long way towards that.

It's getting there.  When you move into a new house/apartment/whatever, it doesn't feel like home right away; a stadium is no different.  Shea felt like home because we had lots of memories there; I think Santana's no-hitter is the first domino in getting people to feel the same way about the new place.

[KeithK]

Also, if we're comparing MLB stadiums to ECAC rinks, then may I nominate Tigers Stadium.  I've never felt closer to a MLB player than I did while sitting in the last row of the upper deck looking at the on-deck circle at that old park. Nobody cared about seat comfort, but it was intimate and enclosed, and LOUD.  I also got to see Al Kaline waiting to go up to to the press box, and he stood there, shaking all the hands of everyone in the cheap-seats who recognized him. Too bad the park (and neighborhood it's in) is decaying, empty.

Tiger Stadium was awesome.

[dbilmes]

Tiger Stadium was awesome.

Agreed, unless you were sitting behind a post in the back of the lower deck, which happened to me several times. The first few rows of the upper deck seats right behind home plate were the best. You felt like you could practically reach out and touch the batter.

[Larry72]

Joe Nieuwendyk is out as Dallas GM.  More here.

[Jordan 04]

Reminder: Murray vs. Moulson kicks off tonight at 7:30! I believe it's picked up nationally on NBC Sports.

Edit: I guess it's technically May now.

[Rita]

Reminder: Murray vs. Moulson kicks off tonight at 7:30! I believe it's picked up nationally on NBC Sports.

Edit: I guess it's technically May now.

All the NHL playoff games are on the NBC network family (nbc sports, cnbc, nbc and/or msnbc).

[ftyuv]

Reminder: Murray vs. Moulson kicks off tonight at 7:30! I believe it's picked up nationally on NBC Sports.

Edit: I guess it's technically May now.

All the NHL playoff games are on the NBC network family (nbc sports, cnbc, nbc and/or msnbc).

The games can a bit hard to find if you don't know what to look for. NBC Sports plays them between commercials for the Kentucky Derby.

[gomestar]

Someday I hope Nick D'Agostino, Kenny Agostino and Matt D'Agostini play on the same team.

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8474768

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8475844

and finally:

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/10/pittsburgh-signs-dagostini-one-year-550000/

[jkahn]

Someday I hope Nick D'Agostino, Kenny Agostino and Matt D'Agostini play on the same team.

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8474768

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8475844

and finally:

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/10/pittsburgh-signs-dagostini-one-year-550000/

Kenny Agostino's rights were traded by Pittsburgh to Calgary in the Iginla deal.  So they don't have the D'Agostino, Agostino, D'Agostini hat trick.