The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx. The club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles, and moved to New York City in 1903, becoming known as the New York Highlanders before being officially renamed the "Yankees" in 1913. From 1923 to 2008, the Yankees' home ballpark was Yankee Stadium, one of the world's most famous sports venues. In 2009, they moved into a new stadium, also called "Yankee Stadium".
The franchise is the defending World Champion of Major League Baseball and lead the League in both revenue and titles, with 27 World Series championships and 40 American League Pennants. They have more championships than any other franchise in North American professional sports history.
The new stadium was first class and we had seats in the top tier which offered a great view over the whole field. The atmosphere was pretty good and although we didn't really know that much about baseball before we went, apart from the brief rules we looked up, we soon caught on.
We found it hard to focus on the game as there were many distractions around us. These varied from competitions such as seat upgrades with camera people appearing behind us to upgrade peoples seats which could be seen on the big screen. As well as this there were lots of breaks between innings and baseball player changes where they played some great songs from The Rolling Stones, The Clash and Queen amongst many others while showing various people in the crowd on it. A few of the fans were caught on camera and shown on the big screen rocking out - one guy in particular was shown a few times on his air guitar doing some head banging, I don't even think he knew he was on the big screen! The main distraction was the people sitting next to us who had a few good pints to drink and had plenty of things to shout which amused us but offended a great deal of the others - mainly parents who were shouting at them to watch their mouths as there were kids in the section. A few of these were things like accusing the rest of the section of being Boston Red Sox fans for not participating in their Mexican Waves and chants he was trying to start.
The game ended 7 - 3 to the Yankees who were getting beat 3 - 0 in the 7th inning where they managed to score 5 runs. We also got to see 2 home runs, 1 for each side.
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