Word: stadium
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...exceptions, respected the tradition reflected in their pinstripes, and eschewed the showboating, sleaze, and unshaven slovenliness common among other teams. Yankee management never passed over into that netherworld of statistics and other alchemical arcana; rather, they continued to rely on what had always worked: character and heart. The Stadium, their home in the Bronx, stood firm for what was best about the sport, as other, lesser teams floated aimlessly in a sea of unchecked change...
...glory—along with that of the Yankees—may have faded, as the age of “sabermetrics,” and of sophisters and calculators like Theo Epstein and Billy Beane, has succeeded. But as long as our memory endures where Yankee Stadium cannot, we shall know that the baseball of today—with its expansion teams, steroids, instant replay, and other demonic innovations—was a mere shadow of what it once was, and what it may yet again still...
Counterpoint: The pied beauty of Shea Stadium...
...This seems fitting, because Shea Stadium is itself a giant error in both form and functionality. Unlike Yankee Stadium, its counterpart across the Long Island Sound, Shea’s massive concrete and steel structure has none of the quaint charm of a bygone era. Its proportions are oppressively regular and unimaginative, its seats are painted garish and clashing colors, its sightlines—a vestige from the stadium’s original design as a dual use football/baseball facility—are all bad. Sounds of the game are drowned out by the frequent roar of commercial jets taking...
...these reasons, Shea Stadium has also always been a particularly appropriate home for the New York Mets. Its peculiar contours echo the quirky appeal of a team constantly in the shadow of their better-attended, better-paid, and better-performing (at least until this year) rivals the Yankees, who play a scant few miles away...