As the regular season is ready to begin, I am opening up 3nohitters to guest bloggers. I understand that many other blog sites offer their visitors the chance to author an article from time to time. So here's yours...
The Red Sox look poised to make another playoff run in 2009. Health has returned to Big Papi, Mike Lowell & JD Drew. The bullpen is as strong as ever. The starting pitchers are seven deep. The Tampa Bay series will be a great way to start things off & an early measure of things to come.
If you would like to author an article, send your written thoughts to 3nohitters@gmail.com. I will put your story on the blog for you.
I look forward to hearing from Red Sox Nation as the fun begins for real on Monday.
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This is not mine. It is from the NY Post. on the new Yankee Stadium.
IN TOUGH TIMES, A MONUMENT TO GREED
TRADITIONS MADE IT SAFELY ACROSS STREET
NEW YORK YANKEES
HAL STEINBRENNER
BRIAN BRUNEY
OVER THE TOP: Yankee fans got a first-hand look yesterday at the new Yankee Stadium, a building that is as grand as the franchise's history, and that's not necessarily a good thing, according to Post columnist Joel
IT IS beautiful, of course. But in the way that a woman who went to the world's best plastic surgeon might be beautiful. It is supposed to remind you of the previous incarnation, and ends up feeling artificial and overdone.
The new Yankee Stadium has just about everything you would want in a modern sports facility, except charm and a sense of proportion.
If you can afford the prices, you should have a good time there. The sightlines are wonderful. The large screen in center field is so clear you really do feel as if you could reach out and touch the people on it. The concourses are wide, and the food choices abundant.
Yet the place brought nausea, not nostalgia. It just feels like the wrong time in the history of this country and this city to be opening up the George Mahal. When the project was initiated 2 ½ years ago, the Yankees could not have known what the state of the economy was going to be now.
But this is about more than wrong place, wrong time. The Yankees' sense of entitlement and unrestrained excess is timeless. They will tell you they built this stadium for the everyman, stressing what they consider still affordable pricing and amenities. But this stadium, in actuality, was built for a moneyed class that in many respects does not even exist in this city any longer.
SB
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