Farewell to Yankee Stadium

Sunday night, September 21, marked the end of an era and the beginning of another. Yankee Stadium finally closed its door on 85 years of wins, losses, world series, and perfect games. The pre-game ceremony was awesome...seeing all of the Yankee legends in the stadium for the last time was great. Yogi Berra is awesome. And it was nice seeing Bernie Williams at the stadium and being acknowledged by the fans...everyone was clapping for a few minutes, at least.

The game itself started out a little rough with Angel Hernandez being a horrible umpire, like usual, and the Orioles actually trying to win. Andy didn't pitch his best, but then again there are rumors of a possible injury, or just plain exhaustation. But the offense got to work, and won the game. JoMo hit the last hr at the stadium, Gardner scored the last run, Giambi the last hit, and Cano the last rbi. It ended perfectly with Jeter getting the last at-bat (for the home team, at least) and Mo coming in for the final 3 outs. It was amazing how many flashes went off when the first pitch was thrown and when Mo threw his first pitch. I got chills when Mo came out!

Afterwards Jeter came up with a speech at the last minute and the team saluted the fans - that was really cool of them. I only watched a little bit at the end of the game, I recorded the rest and still have to see what else happened after the game. All in all, the night was great. I'm looking forward to April 16, 2009 though!