Comments on: WasWatching.com Water Cooler Talk 11/6/09 – The “I Love A Parade” Edition

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:01:55 +0000

Steve Lombardi wrote:

@ MJ:
Give it a try B4 you panic, OK?

It’s not like I’m gonna quit WW anytime soon. Like I said, I’m hooked.

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:56:40 +0000

@ MJ:
Give it a try B4 you panic, OK?

By: G.I. Joey

G.I. Joey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:24:24 +0000

This was the fourth parade I have attended and it was the best one for me by far because I didn’t run into that many problems. I got off the 1 train at South Ferry right at 9:30am and was able to get a pretty decent spot on Broadway bet. Morris St. and Exchange Place. If you’re someone who attends a decent amount of concerts where you have to stand up and don’t mind, the parade experience shouldn’t be that much of an annoyance. The only thing that kind of sucked was how spaced out all the floats with players were. There were a lot of Yankee employees riding trucks and tour buses who would fill in those gaps while people chanted “WHO ARE YOU?!?”

In the past I was never able to make it near Broadway, always getting stuck up near City Hall. This was largely due to the fact that I was in high school at the time, didn’t know the city as well as I do now, and was part of a large group of kids just as clueless as me. This time I was with some of those same people and luckily we are all a bit wiser now and were able to actually see the parade. We then “battled” our way up Broadway, which was a little bit of a pain, but wasn’t as bad as I expected and secured a good spot in front of one of the big screens they had setup near City Hall. I don’t know if they showed this on TV, but they rolled a highlight reel of the season that started out with pivotal regular season moments and then proceeded to the “Step 1″ (ALDS), “Step 2″ (ALCS), “Step 3″ (WS) segments. This was nicely done and people were going nuts when some of the biggest post season moments were being replayed. It was a little crazy how many people were getting keys and it would have been nice to hear from a few more players, but in the end it was great to be apart of one last mass gathering of Yankee fans in 2009.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:12:38 +0000

Steve Lombardi wrote:

@ MJ:
Why?

You need to ask why? Because I love the site as it is and rely on it as a major part of my daily life. Change is scary.

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:39:40 +0000

@ lisaswan:
thanks for the link – I had not seen that. Very sad

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:49 +0000

@ MJ:
Why?

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:59:19 +0000

@ Steve Lombardi:
MAJOR, major, major – did I say major? – bummer!

By: lisaswan

lisaswan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:31:30 +0000

Steve,

I went to the parade yesterday. Glad I got to see it in person, but boy was it crowded! It was crowded on the SI Ferry there, and crowded just walking to B’way. And this was two hours ahead of time. Was fortunate to find a decent spot to see parade, just north of Wall Street.

Thought you’d be interested to hear that there apparently was a near-riot at the Whitehall Terminal after parade. I’m glad I stayed in the city for lunch and missed this mess!

http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/11/it_was_chaos_says_commuter_who.html

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:42:26 +0000

Hey, just want to sneak in some house-cleaning here. As mentioned, this will be the last Water Cooler.

The days of spending 90 hours per month making 150 posts a month are over for me. Going forward, I am going to aim to keep it closer to 30 hours per month and <50 posts per month.

No more Water Coolers and, most likely, no more daily Game Commentary next year. It will be more features and isolated breaking news things…more like Pinstriped Bible and less like LoHud, if you need examples…

That said, while there will not be Coolers each day, PLEASE, please, please – did I say please? – feel FREE to use whatever post is the most recent one on the site and leave comments there on the Yankees, much like you did in the Coolers.

The fact that this blog is a gathering site for a community of Yankees fans is not changing at all.

If you have any questions on this, please let me know. Thanks!