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April 16, 2008

Odds Botkins!

Much like Horatio Prim and Melody Allen being stuck in the well, it seems like the ghosts of Yankee Stadium will have to watch Yankees games on YES next season - just like most of the income-challenged Yankees fans out there.

Via Steven Marcus of Newsday:

The new baseball structure going up in the Bronx may represent something strange in the neighborhood for the ghosts of Yankee lore. They may not so readily transfer their energy from the old rafters to the new suites and skyboxes.

With their lease on eternity at the old Yankee Stadium endangered, perhaps Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle will opt to become free-agent spirits.

That is one theory.

Dominick Villella, who works for Paranormal Investigation of New York City, has grave doubts that the Yankee ghosts will change addresses.

"I don't think it is possible to move any type of paranormal activity from one building to the next," he said. "It is probably going to be tied to that building. The old stadium is going to retain whatever energy it had. It would be nice if you could take some of the old energy over, but I don't think it is possible."

Villella thinks the current Yankee Stadium undoubtedly has enormous spiritual vibes.

"Babe Ruth's energy is contained as a replay in time," he said, "like a film loop that maybe could happen again and again -- if conditions were right.'' So, when the wind swirls and there is distant thunder, Ruth apparently has lived in the bats of Yankees who have hit dramatic home runs.

Villella said that bringing objects from the legendary players could contain energy to jump-start the new building.

"Bring over things that were associated with the players," he said. "If they leave it at the old stadium, that energy will remain there."

[Yankee chief operating officer Lonn] Trost said the current stadium has undergone many changes over the years and it did not seem to disturb the ghosts.

"We've changed the dirt here as many times as I've cut my hair," he said. "The sod is different, the field is different, the irrigation is different, the lockers look different. Even the rodents are different. The most important things, the championship banners and the fans, we are taking with us."

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Posted by Steve Lombardi at April 16, 2008 03:25 PM

Comments

I guess the ghosts were on vacation in 2004.

Posted by: baileywalk [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 16, 2008 03:53 PM

How many ghosts are in Yankee Stadium? How many people have died there?

Are you telling me they didn't find any old grave yards when they were digging the foundation for the new stadium?

Come on...there are going to be plenty of oddities in any new development over old ground.

Posted by: gphunt [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 16, 2008 04:01 PM