Unlike Fenway Over The Weekend, Tonight Yankee Stadium Will Shatter Eardrums It'll Be So Loud

When I ventured up north this weekend to Boston for the ALDS I expected a hostile environment that would intimidate anyone wearing Yankee blue. Instead, I encountered a fanbase that didn’t take this series seriously. It’s Red Sox-Yankees in the MLB postseason. The atmosphere should have been unbelievable and something I would never forgot. Instead, it felt like two big regular season games. More people stood for Sweet Caroline in the 8th inning down 6-2 on Saturday than they did when Judge got two strikes on him. It was, for lack of a better word, pathetic.

You want to see what a crowd should sound like in October? Turn on the Braves game last night as the crowd essentially forced Walker Buehler to walk the pitcher with the bases loaded. It was electric.

Go watch the AL Wild Card Game from last week. Severino’s first inning was just about the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. The whole game every single fan stood with two strikes on the A’s. No one had to ask. Nothing prompted us to do so on the big screen. It was a do or die postseason game and every fan was invested in it like their lives depended on every single pitch. That’s the way it should be.

Will the new Yankee Stadium ever top the House That Ruth Built?

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Probably not, and that’s okay. This new Yankee Stadium has a different roaring sound to it, and it’s incredible. I cannot wait to hear the fire in that place tonight. There will be lunatics all over the place. Let’s unleash the goddamn Bronx Zoo. I want to test the stability of the structure of the stadium tonight and if it can hold the place shaking for 27 outs.