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Post by Chris on Mar 17, 2009 18:35:42 GMT -5
Dodger Stadium is a shithole. Seriously. It's old, seats suck, they'll never tell you this but they sell WAY MORE tickets to the bleachers than there are actually seats, and worst of all....the parking is the most atrocious I've seen.
It can literally take you 2 hours of waiting (that is no exaggerating) in a line of cars to exit the stadium parking lot.
The food sucks, it's inconvenient to drive to.
That place is pure shit.
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Post by baldvinny on Mar 17, 2009 18:46:23 GMT -5
not to mention all of the latino gang bangers that go to games, looking to start fights...i swear, they need a metal detector at that place. i was seriously scared for my life in that joint
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 17, 2009 19:17:14 GMT -5
I wasn't. I have too much street cred for those gangbangers to mess with me. I watched the first five minutes of Warriors once. I like to think of myself like that Cyrus guy--who united the gangs. No one would ever mess with Cyrus.
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 1:01:06 GMT -5
I sat in the Bleachers when the Yanks came to LA....and I took a LOT of shit from a LOT of Mexicans....and there ain't much you can do when it's me and my 5 year old daughter (at the time) against a whole shitload of 18th Street's finest! You're right Vinny - it's a jungle out there.
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Post by 9 on Mar 18, 2009 10:50:39 GMT -5
I was in the top of the upper deck for the Sunday Yanks-Dodgers game and the fat Mexican in front of me yelled the same two things the entire game (I am NOT making this up): "Hey PEEETCHER, throw a SPLEEEETER" and "Yankees SUCKS!"
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 14:53:15 GMT -5
That's "JANKEES"
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 14:54:10 GMT -5
Frankly Nettles, I'm surprised Dodger fans know what a spleeter is.
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Post by Lindsey on Mar 18, 2009 14:55:47 GMT -5
I'm scared! I feel a gang rape coming on and I'm just READING about it!
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Post by 9 on Mar 18, 2009 15:23:28 GMT -5
Jankees is correct. My bad.
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 15:29:20 GMT -5
One of the sound effects always played on the Petros and Money show (a local L.A. sports talk show) is some Mexican dude repeatedly exclaiming, "Doyers, Doyers, Doyers, Doyers!!!"
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Post by 9 on Mar 18, 2009 15:53:47 GMT -5
My biggest memory from that series was Eric Gagne of the Doyers making Bernie Williams of the Jankees look absolutely foolish by following up two 90+ MPH fastballs with a 60-something MPH curve ball that froze the entire ballpark.
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 15:58:57 GMT -5
Really. That's funny...my fondest memory of that series was Jason Giambi taking Gagne's offering to the moon, making HIM look like the foolish one.
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 16:00:03 GMT -5
Overall, that series pissed me off.
If memory serves, didn't they get trounced in Colorado the series just prior?
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Post by 9 on Mar 18, 2009 16:51:26 GMT -5
I didn't say Bernie striking out to end the game was my FONDEST memory. My most vivid memory would have been a better way of stating it. I actually got a laugh out of the two pitchers homering in the same game. I can't remember the Yankees' starter for the life of me, but he was making his Major League debut. I don't think he's with the organization anymore. But he homered off Lima Time, and Lima Time proceeded to clout one off him a couple of innings later.
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Post by Chris on Mar 18, 2009 17:04:18 GMT -5
Was it Branden Claussen?
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Post by nobeernofun on Mar 18, 2009 20:46:30 GMT -5
I remember seeing someone in a Jankees cap & shirt on crowed surfing in the Doyers bleachers. from the my Yellow seat I'm thinking "Oh no they got Ball's & they are tossing him around.... only to find out it was just a blow up Doll with a Jankees cap & shirt on. lol
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Post by 9 on Mar 18, 2009 22:26:44 GMT -5
I'm going senile. Looked it up. It was Brad Halsey, and he didn't homer, but he got a hit in his first Major League at-bat. And the pitcher who homered off him was Nomo, not Lima Time.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 19, 2009 6:58:56 GMT -5
The only thing I remember about the Dodger series was how inaccessible the stadium was, how much it reminded me of Shea, and leaving early on the Sunday game to go to Vegas.
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Post by 9 on Mar 19, 2009 7:05:27 GMT -5
Getting out is way worse than getting in. I hate leaving games early but, after going to all three Jankees-Doyers games there, I understand why people do it.
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Post by baldvinny on Mar 19, 2009 7:40:31 GMT -5
we had such a hard time leaving one night, that a few of us thought we could WALK back to our hotel. we wandered for hours, so lost, untill we finally were able to flag down a cab and get back to our hotel
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 19, 2009 7:44:50 GMT -5
How quick does the Stadium kick everyone out after final pitch? I would have a hankering of heading to the Stadium tavern for a few pops before venturing out into the mess. I liken it to stopping at the bodega after a weekend Yankee game to "let the traffic clear."
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Post by 9 on Mar 19, 2009 7:53:23 GMT -5
It's usually pretty quick, but with the new ballpark, they may not rush people out in the hopes of selling more crap. Who knows?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 19, 2009 7:55:57 GMT -5
No, no, I was talking about DODGER STADIUM, and their accompanying traffic woes. Why stay around in Yankee Stadium to drink and eat overpriced rubbish when their are cheap bodegas around?
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Post by baldvinny on Mar 19, 2009 8:04:46 GMT -5
most places usher you out of the seating area as soon as possible, as they usually have crews that come in to clean the place
btw, have any of you ever seen the group of people that line up outside the stadium to clean?? its like the dregs of society in the bronx. since i'm always there late, i see it almost every day. apparently the rule is "you keep what you find" so there are always longer lines on the promotions days, as well on fridays because people tend to get drunk and leave stuff behind. one night some guy tried to sell me a kids yankee jacket that some dope left at his seat. he wanted $20 for it, but i passed cause it wouldn't fit me!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 19, 2009 8:05:58 GMT -5
Yeah, its one of those morons who stole my MP3 player that day when I left it in a bag up by my sister-in-laws seats.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 19, 2009 8:06:47 GMT -5
Actually when we were in LA, I think we DID walk back to the hotel. It was like 2 miles.
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Post by Chris on Mar 19, 2009 10:56:01 GMT -5
There's nothing around the stadium (Dodger Stadium) to do Tom. Nowhere to go drink, eat, etc. It's isolated, in a ravine, and as Balls said one of the most inaccessible stadiums in the land.
The only thing anywhere near Dodger Stadium is a Union 76 gas station in the parking lot.
The place is shit.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 19, 2009 11:05:33 GMT -5
Then why did people vote for it as "BEST STADIUM." Cho, you may be failing to see the forest for the trees.
I did not think there was anything there, which is why i was asking if there was an eatery / tavern IN the Stadium to hang out in, until the traffic cleared a bit.
I always found it funny to watch footage of Kirk Gibsons legendary home run, seeing the cluster of tail-lights heading out of the parking lot as it sailed out.
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Post by Chris on Mar 19, 2009 11:15:07 GMT -5
As another poster said...you can't blame them.
It's a time consuming feat to get in at game time, as well as getting out after the 9th.
The parking lot is literally this:
A huge parking lot shaped like a donut, with the hole of the donut being the stadium itself. And there are...count em....TWO, exits. One funnels out into a small neighborhood street, another funnel out into a metered, two-lane merging into one freeway onramp. That's it.
That's why people bail in the 7th, so do you have to wait, literally, 2 hours to exit the place.
As far as eating....nothing more than your typical stadium concession stands....no real quality hangs within the stadium.
What you do see, which I think is unique to Dodger Stadium, is the habit of POST-GAME tailgating....people tossing footballs, drinking it up, listening to tunes, just waiting out the parking lot traffic jam.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 19, 2009 11:22:52 GMT -5
As another poster said...you can't blame them
Sorry, that excuse does not work come playoff time.
Im glad everyone pulling out that night missed the Gibson home run. I hope they regret it to this day.
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