Drove to Milford to take Metro North to the Yankees game on Saturday. Its about an hour drive for me / 40 minutes from Hartford. 1 good thing is that if you can get a spot in the commuter lot on weekends, its free parking. Got a spot right next to the station. 1 other note is that there is parking on either side of the station. You have to walk completely around the station to the opposing side on the return. There is no walkway above the tracks.
Waited about 20 minutes and the train came. Took it to Harlem / 125th st to transfer to a Poughkeepsie train to Yankee Stadium. However, since I was outside of the window of the game, the train did not stop at Yankee Stadium (completely catching me off-guard). Got off the North-Bound train at Maple Hill and got a south bound train that also did not stop at Yankee Stadium. Back to 125th St I went. At this point, I walked over to the subway and took it to the Stadium. Thankfully, I was extremely early and had time to kill so not a big deal. Just wish I had realized that earlier...
At this point, my friend called me as he was coming in from Manhattan (had to work in the morning) and he was just leaving to go to the subway so I walked around the stadium for a little while. Met him back at Stan's for a few beers.
At about 1:15, we went to Gate 6 and got in the line so we could get into Monument Park. However, once the gates opened, we learned of a new policy where you cannot bring tablets (IPads, Nooks (which we each had), etc) into the stadium. They explained that it was due to someone uploading pictures onto Facebook during the game so they banned all tablets. This was somewhat understandable but you can do the same thing with cameras and cell phones. We had to walk back to a parking garage off of 161st St to rent a locker for $10. My biggest issue with it was that there are no signs near the gates that explain this. We had just stood at the gate for 45 minutes (ample time to have taken care of this). By the time we got back to the gate, the lines for Monument Park were too long so we just went in.
More to come...
Yankee Stadium trip (4/30)
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Once we got inside, we each got a beer and walked around Field Level while watching Batting Practice. Then we went to the Museum and spent some time going through everything, especially the Lou Gehrig exhibit as both of us have lost a grandfather to ALS. Once we left the museum, we went to our seats in Section 411. They were the top row of the stadium. Had a great view of Manhattan to our backs. We went back down and walked around the concourse for a little while. I really like the beer selection at the stadium (Hoegaarden, Yuengling, etc), but the prices are higher than most stadiums ($9 for a bottle, most drafts were $12). Had brought a grinder to have so didnt look at food prices. Did notice that lines were not moving very fast that day. not sure if this is typical or not. By the 6th inning, most draft beer kegs were out and some were not replaced.
I ran into a coworker who had empty seats next to him so we went and sat in those seats that were closer to the bottom of the section.
I really enjoyed Yankee Stadium and will go back. Being a Red Sox fan (Did not wear any Red Sox gear), I didn't really care who won. I just wanted a close game with some action and got that as the Yankees won 5-4.
After the game, we went and picked up our Nooks and I jumped on the train and was home by 10:00.
Fun day.
What a pain that you had to waste so much time getting a locker for your nook
Sounds like you had a lot of fun, though.
Thanks for the report