Thursdays’ Astros-Yankees on YES was an appropriate preamble to tonight’s Derek Jeter ceremony.
At the top, then during the game, Michael Kay and Paul O’Neill noted this was a matchup of first-place teams, both playing surprisingly good, highly motivated baseball.
Agreed. Even in May, this one was worth watching.
But if they knew and I knew, why the usual can’t-miss-it: thousands and thousands of empty good seats?
Why, again, did new Yankee Stadium display the inverted reality and sense of old Yankee Stadium — where the good, better and best seats were filled and the ballpark population thinned as you looked back and up?