So the news from Boone is that The Martian, Jasson Dominguez, somehow avoided a concussion in his left field collision with the wall, but did sprain his left shoulder, which will put him on the DL.
There is no excuse—NONE—for the New York Yankees to put anything dangerous on the field in Yankee Stadium III. This isn't some archaic feature of the grand cathedral that was the original Yankee Stadium. Hal and his daddy put paid to that joint long ago.
Nonetheless, there is Dominguez banging his head against a chain-link fence—a chain-link fence!—covering the left field ad wall.
The ad wall has to be there because, of course, we can't just have ONE ad on the left field fence in the Stadium. We have to have constantly rotating, electronic ads.
Hence the fence. It's not there to protect the players, but to protect the ads.
Somehow, the bright lights who Hal hires to run his bright lights could figure out no better way or place to maximize the ads that already fill almost every inch of the ballpark we taxpayers built for him—or that blare incessantly over the sound system.
The "Your Ad Here" space is so bad, in fact, that we were fortunate Dominguez's injury was not worse.
Incredibly, some idiot also installed a step up to the chain-link fence. (Hey, why not just a moat and alligators?) You could see The Martian's shoe stick on this for a moment as he went down, in a daze. We're very lucky he didn't break his foot.
In what seems like a different age, Mickey Mantle tore up his leg in 1963 making a catch against the ridiculous, chain-link fence Baltimore used to have on its playing field.
That wasn't the fault of the Yankees' management, but Mantle's initial, awful injury in the 1951 World Series, was. Sure, Joe DiMaggio was being a jerk to Mantle so he didn't want to step in front of the Great Man and sure, it was an accident: some thoughtless grounds crew guy leaving a sprinkler cap open.
But there sure as hell is no excuse for this.
I could not help noticing that the Yankees went over the 800,000 mark in attendance today. In May. That's over 40,000 game even with the lousy weather we've had all spring, tops in the American League.
But hey, no reason for our nepo baby owner to evvvvvvver give up another dollar, even if it means some young kid's career.
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Unsafe at any speed.
I never noticed that little ledge under the ad board, but sure enough there it is.
Definitely a danger out there.
But Hoss, you have to admit that this solves the Martian problem . . . at least for the time being.
Frankly I'm surprised that Hal didn't instead green light the other left field ad wall proposal which would have been to line that section with thirty vintage Sony Trinitron PVM-4300 monitors.
For the uninitiated - the Sony Trinitron PVM-4300 was the largest glass screen CRT monitors made by Sony - offering a impressively bright and clear 43 inch screen that weighed over 400lbs.
Stacked and mounted three high and ten across, these babies surely would have turned some heads. Plus the thickness and density of the glass would not have required a chain-link fence at all. Instead, a flexible, replaceable, optically transparent one inch polymer panel would have been fitted in front of the video wall.
Such a missed opportunity.
What a shame.
Oh and no more Jones'n for Spencer - He's been called up.
I'm surprised that Jasson either didn't go over number of steps on warning track or forgot the number of steps if they did...or they just don't do that any longer...
Preach, Hoss.
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