Last night was epic for 50,000 hip hop fans at Yankee Stadium during a concert that was headlined by Jay-Z and Eminem, but also featured the likes of Dr. Dre, Fitty, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, a kid from Canada that no one should be paying attention to, and others. If you wanna see what you missed, Miss Info has a full rundown, videos and all.
The Brits may love soccer more than crooked teeth and warm ale, but they’re not fans of the vuvuzela and with their popularity spreading across England thanks to the World Cup, the officials who run Wimbledon don’t want the plastic horns ruining their precious tennis matches. And so they banned them: “We have a list of prohibited items, including rattles and klaxons and vuvuzelas will fall into that category so the message is not to bring them.” Thankfully, Yankee Stadium has already instituted a similar policy. |BBC|
Baseball fans are now free to take a bathroom break during Yankee Stadium’s rendition of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch thanks to a Manhattan federal court decision. The new policy was brokered with the Yankees, NYCLU, and Bradford Campeau-Laurion, who got a $10k settlement from the city because two NYPD officers ejected him from the stadium for trying to relieve himself during the anthem, with one cop allegedly telling him, “Get out of my country.” |NYP|
Ticket sales at the new Yankee Stadium are so lackluster that the cheap seats can be bought even cheaper. Earlier, the Yankees slashed ridiculously expensive, with $1000 tickets going for the still ludicrous sum of $500. Now, $14 seats can be had online for as little as $7, less than a stadium beer. |NYDN|
Damn, even the AP made fun of the Bronx Bombers and their $1.5 billion stadium today: “The Yankees opened baseball’s fanciest and priciest ballpark Thursday with a performance that would have embarrassed Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other stars from their famous pinstriped past. After an 85-year-run in a stadium that produced 26 World Series titles, New York saw its hitters fizzle and its bullpen come apart on a sunny afternoon in a 10-2 loss to the Cleveland Indians.” |Image via AP|
Temporary pixel art aside, NYU students suck. Take class clown William Lopez. Yesterday, in “The House That Ruth Built,” the newly graduated student took off his pants and sprinted onto the field. With throngs of his peers cheering him on, Lopez rounded third headed for home, and wap!, he got tagged before he could reach the plate by Yankee Stadium security. Lopez was given a desk appearance ticket and the cover of the Daily News. |NYDN|
Like the Pope, ANIMAL’s street team—aka two girls from Craigslist—went to Yankee Stadium on Sunday afternoon on a mission from God. And like his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, the ANIMAL marketing squad was filled with tender loving kindness for our fellow man. In fact, our cup so runneth over with mercy that we distributed 5000 special edition Pope-ylactics to help prevent the spread of sexual transmitted diseases. The big H, in particular. (That shit’s everywhere.)
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