Do Not Go Into The Light
From The New York Observer Real Estate:
The borough that swallowed its major league pride when the Dodgers left 50 years ago will have to do so again: several tons of dirt from the excavation of the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx will be carted (or shipped, perhaps) down to the Brooklyn Bridge Park as soon as this summer.
Wendy Leventer, the president of the Brooklyn Bridge Development Corporation, said the imported dirt would cut millions of dollars off of construction costs but that her agency had not expected it to come as quickly as it will–though she says she is not certain exactly when that is. The dirt will go on the upland portion of the park to create a berm to deaden the sound of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
I wonder if the Yankees will take some of the dirt from the “old” field and move it over to the new, pardon the pun, digs – in order to throw a gag on those who lament about the loss of the Yanks’ “Hallowed Ground”?
Then again, if Big Stein has seen “Poltergeist,” maybe he won’t mess with moving the dirt?
Better to let the spirits of Tucker Ashford, Brandon Knight, Juan Bernhardt, Kevin Mmahat, Dennis Sherrill, Mike Jerzembeck and Erick Almonte to rest in peace, undisturbed.
The field was totally dug up in the 1970’s when they ‘rebuilt’ the Stadium. It isn’t the ‘dirt’ Babe, Lou G, Joe D or the Mick played on……
God rest their souls.
Beware the awesome power of Kevin Mmahat!
I read somewhere that ground hasn’t even been broken yet for the new Stadium, and that it can’t until the National Park Service gives their OK. And that the NPS hasn’t even gotten the app to review yet. Am I deluded in thinking the new Stadium might not get off the ground, or just overly hopeful? I still think a renovation/complete rebuild on the current land would be best, but I’m sentimental like that.
It might not be the Babe’s dirt, or the Mick’s dirt, but it sure is Jeter’s dirt, and Mattingly’s dirt, and Randolph’s dirt, and Bernie’s dirt, and Guidry’s dirt, and so on. That’s some damn fine dirt if you ask me. If the new Stadium is built, I hope they bring along some old dirt.
The way things go these days, they might even try to sell bits of the old dirt. I’m probably crazy enough to buy some.
I’d buy some too.
Isn’t even the dirt of Mattingly. Or the 1996-2000 team. They redid the field a few years back when George spent millions putting in that new drainage system.