Yankee Stadium is boring?

To my 5 year old daughter, apparently so. We’ve talked about going to Yankee Stadium and the abstract concept excited her. Though she’s never been interested in baseball. She knows I’m a Yankee fan but that’s about as far as it goes.

We were thinking about buying tickets to take her to a game so she could see Yankee Stadium before it closes, but the cost of buying decent seats seemed crazy for someone who may not even like it.

So we got lucky. My wife knew someone who got tickets through Marsh and he gave her two tickets to Saturday’s game, the second to last game at Yankee Stadium. Not great seats, upper deck, but right behind home plate so really not bad.

We wanted to get there early to see batting practice, but we didn’t quite make it. The subway was slow and tons of people were going early because it was the last weekend. Amusingly “Freddy Sez” was on our subway car going to the game (Freddy takes the D train, if you are curious).

It’s hard to convey the sense of history to a 5 year old, but the whole concept of a baseball stadium was new and interesting. For a while.

And there was cotton candy. And we brought some books. So I tried to keep her entertained so I could watch as much of the game as possible (I had no delusions that we would make 9 inning). It was a pitchers duel, which didn’t help keep Danielle entertained.

Finally I heard the dreaded words from my daughter. “Yankee Stadium is boring”. Argh. So much for my dream of father/daughter baseball outings. At least I still have Victoria to work on…

But of course there were pictures. Someday Danielle can say she was at the “old Yankee Stadium”

Pre-game:

Top of the 6th. We’re almost done…

Exhausted on the D train coming home…