William World News William F. Yurasko's blog v.14 – Nats, Penn State, Redskins, greater DC , travel, more

NEW YORK — When I was student at Penn State Hazleton, many of us often passed an intersection that had a “WAIT FOR GREEN” sign next to a traffic light in West Hazleton. Obviously, this from the Redundant Department of Redundancy Department, so we we made fun of the borough of West Hazleton/PennDot for posting [...]

NEW YORK — I visited my friend David for six hours last Saturday. We wound up at the Lower East Side’s Doughnut Plant after breakfast at a dive near his apartment in the East Village. Had I known beforehand about Doughnut Plant, I would have insisted we just go there for breakfast. The bakery, with [...]

Readers choose The Bronx Beltway as the new Yankee Stadium’s nickname – NY Daily NewsHuh? Why in the world would anyone give the new Yankee Stadium the nickname “the Bronx Beltway?” How does that make sense?
Let’s just let a nickname come about organically rather than rush to come up with something. *bronx cheer*
New [...]

Rather than put together a huge link dump on the final game at Yankee Stadium, I’ll just point to the newspaper sites Yankees coverage.
Yankees – The TimesYankees – NY Daily NewsYankees – NY Post
A few thoughts:
No Bob Sheppard today
The last game should have been scheduled for the day, not at 8:05 p.m. Of course, [...]

Um, nothing?
THE BRONX — Forgive me if I find the case for building a new Yankee Stadium less compelling than say, Nationals Park. The building is old and the corridors are steep, but overall it remains a perfectly viable venue. While I have little doubt that it makes more financial sense to build a [...]

Mayor Bloomberg wanted to put wind turbines on top of buildings and bridges and that drew obvious responses. Don’t worry, it is not going to happen to any of your favorite landmarks.
Architects and Engineers Express Doubt About Bloomberg’s Windmill Proposal – The Times
New York Tabloids, Daily News, New York Post
©MMX William [...]

THE BRONX — I can’t help be amused to see the superintendent for the subway station next to Yankee Stadium has the same name as the long-time Speaker of the House from Massachusetts.
Or perhaps, I could turn the question around and say, MTA, how could you?

THE BRONX — Bob Shepherd has been the voice of Yankee Stadium since Joe DiMaggio’s final season which was also Mickey Mantle’s first. Shepherd who is not that far off from 100 years old, has been unable work this season. One of the substitute announcers is Jim Hall, who has a similar voice to Shepherd. [...]

Since the end of the Yankees game, I have not been able to get this out of my head. This actually wasn’t originally sung by Frank Sinatra, but Liza Minelli. However, he took it and made it his own and now they play it after every Yankees game. They used to play the Liza version [...]

THE BRONX — The Yankees have had an organ since 1967 when then Yankees president Michael Burke bought a Hammond organ and brought Eddie Layton over from CBS, the Yankees owners back then. Layton retired about five years ago and died shortly thereafter. I am glad that the Yankees kept the tradition going by bringing [...]