Jason and I took in the Tigers/Yankees game from the upper level seats of the New Yankee Stadium today. It’s was a great game, and it was a pitcher’s duel, which is not something that the New York fans have seen much of over the course of the year. However, I was kinda pissed.

For those who don’t know, I am a big fan of the Colorado Rockies, in addition to the Yankees. Some gentlemen on the subway today felt it necessary to point out that I was wearing a Rockies hat to a Yankee game. Why do I like this seemingly random team?

Dante Bichette, Andres Galaraga, and Vinny Castilla. Ladies and gentlemen, this team hit bombs back in the day. They routinely won games with football scores at their home park. At the time, I didn’t really get what the big deal about Coors Field was. I know that balls fly out of their at a pace that is truly irrational, but I never got why everyone tried to fight it so much. They acted as if this park where teams that couldn’t hit put up double digits was an afront to the history of the game. I just thought it was awesome.

Really, let’s think about this logically. There have been pitcher’s and hitter’s parks throughout the history of baseball. It’s naturally what happens when you don’t set parameters for standardized stadiums. If every stadium is going to be shaped differently, have different dimensions and different sized walls, how you going to complain when one plays different then another? It’s the reason why old Tiger Stadium was a band box, why PETCO is where fly balls go to die, and why everyone in Texas is slugging 36,000. We should either celebrated those differences, or make all MLB stadiums the same.

So, what’s with the uproar over all the homeruns in the New Yankee Stadium? It actually strategically benefits the team. The Yanks have a bunch of guys with power, and this only makes them all the more dangerous. Tex, A-Rod and Swisher can all hit routine pop-ups that fly out of the stadium now! Also, It’s not like the Yankees are going to have the problem of attracting free agent pitchers. They have Burnett, Sabathia, Joba, and Hughes under control for the forseeable future. It also doesn’t hurt when you can overpay anyone that you really want.

So, when the Alex Rodriguez’s lazy fly ball landed in the first row of the seats today, I got up and cheered along with everyone in the stadium. When Marcus Thames hit his homerun that barely got into the left field seats, I still smiled. I love the New Yankee Stadium just the way it is.