April 2010
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Last Look at Giants Stadium, Seats Still Available
I haven’t been able to bear stopping by Yankee Stadium in its final days. I know that it’s just a building, but last year’s send-offs gave me proper closure.
I only saw a dozen or so games at Giants Stadium, and because there were fewer games played there and over a shorter period of time, the good-byes have been less celebrated. But I think they are just as keenly felt by...
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Emotional Highs
The Center for Media Research deposits an email in my box via the very useful MediaPost a few times a week with research briefs from different sources that I occasionally find interesting. One caught my eye today, from the Cinema Advertsing Council (CAC), involving emotional attachment people have to movies. Now, the “NewMediaMetrics 360 Cross Platform Study” is a product of the CAC,...
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World Series Victory Art
Yankees Manager Joe Girardi has been stressing that today’s World Series Ring ceremony at Yankee Stadium is an opportunity for the team to gain “closure” on the 2009 championship and become fully invested in 2010. I think it’s a good, if symbolic, marker, and a day to celebrate the title for the last time.
In that spirit, I thought it was interesting that artist Opie...
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The Mad Dominican
In the 70s, there was The Mad Hungarian. Today, there’s The Mad Dominican.
A generation ago, Al Hrabosky was a mustachio’d, excitable-type left-handed reliever for the Cardinals, Royals and Braves. Those of us old enough to have seen Hrabosky pitch will principally remember his histrionics prior to facing a new batter. He would take the ball behind the mound, rub it up roughly,...
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Hot Dogs still rule baseball concessions
Opening Day — or in the Yankees’ and Red Sox’s case, opening night — is just two days away, so the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council has picked an appropriate time to tout the hot dog as the undisputed king of ballpark concessions.
From its release today:
The NHDSC predicts that ballparks around the country will serve 21,378,064 hot dogs this season, enough to round...