i remember watching the Yankees for the first time, they still have Jeter, Alex, Hideki, Damon, Cano, Abreu, Melky, Posada, Giambi, Joba, Mo and Torre as the manager, and also the old stadium is flawless
I like that this video is just unedited, no annoying music playing, no chopped up highlights. Cant believe its been almost 10 years since I've seen and heard the natural sounds of the old Yankee Stadium with games being called by Michael Kay on YES. Thank you for this. Takes me back to 2007.
I saw A-Rod here in Az and couldn't believe how large of a human he was. Not bulky, just huge. I was like 10 feet from him. Got Jobas autograph on my jersey that game too.
Went to his book signing (children's book) at B&N, Manhattan, sometime around 2009. Was standing few feet from the elevator waiting to get on line when elevator doors opened and out walked ARod.😯 Standing mere feet from him, I could not believe how big he was, not just tall ( towering over 5'1" me😅) but huge, massive..and gorgeous. Dumbstruck, I managed to say something stupid, and put out my tiny hand which soon disappeared into his.😂 Love ARod!💙💙💙
Come on. It raw talent that created him. Drugs are downers. All of them . They take away. God given talent no matter and nobody will ever take that away. Steroids did not make him or his career. Pure Talent
I partially agree with you ma'am only thing is people have to GROW UP on the drug issue!! in life as well as sports!! fact is drugs help with injury sickness and all manor of malady and the thing is if you can take a pill or injection that allows you to hit a baseball a few feet father and some doctor or scientist says it MAY take a year or two off your life SO WHAT!!!!! that is his fuckin choice and if HE knows the risk its HIS business not ours to judge!!!!! I can see everyone's opinion with AMATUER sports but the PRO'S?? the gloves are off!!!!!!!!!
This was the last game I ever went to in the old stadium. When he hit the first the crowd went nuts. When he came up for the second time, the guy sitting in front of me was like “Come on A Rod hit one of out for the fuck of it”. Then boom, he hits the next one.
Benedict Chan How true! I always envisioned him playing right field and batting second behind DJ all those years! Can you imagine how opposing pitchers would have crapped their pants ?? WOW!!
Back when the Yankees had a circular lineup. This team scored more runs than the '98 and '09 teams. They were just a bit short on pitching. They only really had two starters.
This is right around the time I started watching baseball... Old Yankee Stadium, there was Chien Ming Wang, Joba Chamberlain, Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon, Shelly Duncan... absolutely vintage and I feel old now lol
Yes indeed! The old stadium had it going on. I've given the new stadium a fair shake and I don't like it. Yankee brass let greed take them over and sellout to the "corporate elite class" All the good seats are overpriced, ergo the typical fan is priced out of the market and relegated to the nosebleed section. All those empty seats at field level belong to people who don't care one way or the other....Seats that used to belong to "Real Yankee Fans" that brought the energy and noise, and were always filled. Understand progress, but the "Old Yankee Stadium" was a cathedral, like Notre Dame Cathedral. You just don't blowup a cathedral! But the Yankees did it, and now we have the "House That Goldman Sachs Built".
Damon Jeter Arod Posada Matsui Cabrera Cano My Yankees. Miss these days. Seattle pitching changes. Whos pitcher number 7 gonna be? The guy Sitting in Section 125 Row 13 Seat 12.
@@lukrim7223 i got u impossible yankee stadium bottom of 7th second strike strike ball ball ball strike strike second baseman committed an error to keep the runner close to first base and prevent him from stealing second choosing to increase his chances of getting the man on first to second the first two choices are both correct he did not get a hit off washburn joe torre (chad) the two choices other the fastball an inside pitch left he is DH and thus not playing in the field he hit 2 HRs he is batting for someone else he has the kill of being able to bat from both sides the bases were loaded second base second base yankees 4 - 2 right field first and third his hit in isolation would have landed him on second base.... 3 mariners 2, yankees 9 6 12 shelly duncan
They screwed joba chamberlane the second they put him as a starter. He was a monster in the closing spot as soon as they put him in a starter rotation he was not that good
A Rod was a hoss. He had a great physical body along with his god given talent to play baseball. I personally didn't think the steroids contributed much to his baseball career. If anything it may have shortened it. Once A Rod got the $30 million plus salary his production went down yearly, but this one year he was the best.
i agree i think he was gifted enough to be the best without roids, but unfortunately the pressure got to him, i also think if he handled the situation better he would have been forgiven instead of ridiculed... great player sad finish to his career
The sad part is that he didn't even need PEDs. He still would've been a terrific player even when not on PEDs. He may not have had the 696 Home Runs, but I definitely still believe he would've been well over 550 Home Runs.
DankFuzzball58 Number 13 will get retired and Alex will get a plaque in Monument Park. ARod was magnificent coming back after hip surgery hitting a homer on first pitch of his first at bat against the O's. ARod put the Yanks on his back to win the 2009 World Series!
And Joe Torre would have still been manager and not Joe Girardi going into 2008. Don Mattingly should have been manager after Torre was let go. Donnie Baseball!
@@Th33Vultur3 I still cant believe that Torre was not the Yankees manager in both 2008 and 2009, in the final season of Yankee Stadium 2 and the first season of Yankee Stadium 3
Take all the steroids you want and I promise you’ll never be anywhere near as good of a ball player as A-Rod. Those steroids did nothing for his numbers but keep him healthy.
@@deesnuts1 it really wasn’t even that. Up until the past few years umpires were pretty lenient on it in general. It’s really only been with the emergence of video replay that the mlb has told umpires that guys HAVE to be in contact with the bag for a force out.
Posada ran out of the baseline anyway. Also could be the result of the old neighborhood play. This is about a year before replay started (and only then for home runs), and you usually just had to get close enough to the base for most umps to call an out.
If the Seatle manager wasn't so trigger happy changing pitchers and just left the starting pitcher who had just given up two runs this would have been a quick inning. You can always tell which teams suck by the manager moves.
i got u impossible yankee stadium bottom of 7th second strike strike ball ball ball strike strike second baseman committed an error to keep the runner close to first base and prevent him from stealing second choosing to increase his chances of getting the man on first to second the first two choices are both correct he did not get a hit off washburn joe torre (chad) the two choices other the fastball an inside pitch left he is DH and thus not playing in the field he hit 2 HRs he is batting for someone else he has the kill of being able to bat from both sides the bases were loaded second base second base yankees 4 - 2 right field first and third his hit in isolation would have landed him on second base.... 3 mariners 2, yankees 9 6 12 shelly duncan
@@pk_lo4638 thanks bro. I hate that class. Now I have to do a whole bunch of late hw for him. Who has time to watch 30 min YT videos and then answer questions 🤦♂️
i miss the days when ARod was in the line-up and was very, very productive. i'm glad he turned his image around and left on a positive note. there is so much that can be said about the man and how he played the game but you have to give him credit for 1 thing, he was a hard worker.
Many, many ballplayers used steroids, but how many of them could hit all of that great pitching? I'd like to see the percentages. I'll bet it was less than one percent?
ARod was not using steroids in 2007....unless he somehow was beating testing and risking his entire reputation and HOF chances. He risked it later, when he was older, dealing with that hip injury and tried that bullshit with Bosch in like 2011 or 12....but he got caught right away I think.
@@edwardelgar7408 right, but they started testing formally in 04. ARod claims he used from 01 to 03...which is why he was caught on the random 2003 test. I doubt he would have risked getting caught again during his prime a few yrs later....they were probably testing him every month back then.
I don't blame the 07 playoff loss on the players alone. This team was playing hurt and sick from mid August to the end of the season. The fact they had a winning record in September actully amazes me. Staff should've handled resting them better. In my opinion it's why all but the trainer was let go at end of season.
It was confusing honestly, we all thought Arod was going to be a Red Sox. Boston was ready to move Manny and Nomar for Arod, and then Boone tore his ACL in the off-season, leaving the Yankees without a 3rd basemen. Arod’s deal with Boston falls apart so Yankees make a move. Most New Yorkers were like Arod is the best SS in the game, But we got Jeter who’s the face of Baseball at this point and our Captain, how this going to work?! We loaded up that off-season by getting Sheffield and Arod which is monsterous, but Boston loaded up on pitching by getting Curt Schilling and keeping Pedro.
all kind of stuff been using since the begining....... but they pick that whenever they want disrespecting the greates hitters.....just because cooperstown....no matters in the baseball fans head they hall of famers
Tom Sand yup but back then umps would call the runner out on the old neighborhood play. Back then as long as the fielder was close enough to the big to the unps judgement the base runner was out. Of course now that doesn’t exist anymore
