Friday, April 19, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Commentary Next Time;
Images Right Now*


*Borrowing from the "Tragedy tomorrow; comedy tonight"
line of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

AUGUST 10, 2007 --

A number of the images presented in this edition of LPR are related to Yankee Stadium. The first image, however, is of the great stadium's successor, taken by LPR, last week.


 

Dramatic view of Yankee Stadiums present and future ……


LPR does not know if the configuration of the new ballpark, when completed, will allow an image of the "The House that Ruth Built" standing, magnificently,
behind the new ballpark.

LPR did hear a rumor, last week, that our Yankee Stadium will not long survive after its successor becomes the home field of the New York Yankees, in 2009.

LPR asks mainstream media -- where are you in reporting the end of Yankee Stadium?

The photos of Tyra Banks were taken July 31. Ms. Banks was at Yankee Stadium shooting a video, LPR believes.

Tyra Banks outside Yankee Stadium on August 1st …


Tyra Banks pretending to stumble …


At one point she pretended to stumble and LPR got the image.

August 4: LPR got a photo of Cynthia Rodriguez, a few minutes after her husband, Alex, hit his 500th home run. LPR also photographed A-Rod and Mrs. Rodriguez, as they left the ballpark, after the August 4 game against Kansas City.

Cynthia Rodriguez, a few minutes after her husband, Alex, hit his 500th home run.


A-Rod and Mrs. Rodriguez after Alex hit his 500th homerun.


The A-Rods leaving the ballpark on August 4th …

(As LPR was not inside to photograph A-Rod's 500th HR, LPR offers this image of
the Mets' Shawn Green hitting a home run to best the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-1, in 11 innings, June 25.)


Shawn Green hitting a home run …


The Mets greet Shawn Green at home plate, June 25th …


Dennis Davis (LPR file photo)


LPR thanks Dennis of Academy buses for making the storage bays of his lead bus available as vantage points for photogs -- and LPR also thanks NYPD Captain
Kastner for agreeing to this terrific photog vantage point for images of Yankees leaving the ballpark, including this photo of Mariano Rivera.
 

Mariano Rivera waving to his fans …


The New York Post recently reported that Yankee boss George Steinbrenner seems to be seriously ill. Daily News columnist Mike Lupica criticized the rival Post for its intrusiveness.

The silent Steinbrenner Mobile …


LPR believes the issue should be settled with full disclosure from the Yankees on
the condition of the tempestuous Boss George, whose silence now is indicated by the inactivity of his New York car, seen
recently by LPR in the Yankees' parking lot.

The image of the sun, setting on the current ballpark was taken by LPR August 3. For LPR, the selection of Yankee Stadium as site of next year's All-Star game is hollow tribute at best.

A Yankee Stadium sunset …


The world will know, as that game is played, that the sun is, indeed, setting on Yankee Stadium, and MLB, shamefully, stands by a few months later, as the wreckers' ball puts an end to "The House that Ruth Built."