At least I'm hitting King George where it hurts

I’m gone, but I’m not forgotten.

BRONX, NY (AP) -- The Yankees say they'll pay New York City $67,574 in back rent on their old stadium.

Under its rental agreement, the baseball team can deduct some maintenance costs from its rent.

An audit being released Wednesday by Comptroller William Thompson found improper deductions, including some payroll, security and stadium repair costs.

The team and the city are still haggling over another $63,888 in rental credits from last year.

ZOMG first walk off win EVER at new Stadium

Firsts, firsts, firsts, firsts

The first homestand at the new Yankee Stadium ended, predictably, on yet another home run to right field.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the 26 home runs in Yankee Stadium's (groan) first six games surpassed the total hit at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium in 1955 for the most hit in the first six games at a new big league venue.

Finally, a normal win in OMG first night game EVER

Plus some history:

Rivera and Pettitte tied an all-time record for win-save combinations (57) as the Yankees defeated the A's, 5-3

Damon padded the lead with his second home run of the year in the sixth inning, a ho-hum right field second-decker solo shot off of reliever Andrew Bailey. The blast was the 21st hit in five regular-season games at the new building.

"At the other stadium, I hit it so well that it definitely would have been in the upper deck," Damon said implying, correctly, that everything was better across the street. Duh.

Crotch joke!

This blog writes itself

Right by the massive gates of the new $1.5 billion ballpark in the Bronx sits eight million pounds of Deer Isle granite that, according to The Associated Press, was quarried by die-hard Red Sox fans.

The granite came from the Crotch Island quarry, Maine's last major island quarrying operation. On that island works foreman Danny Hypes and his three-man crew -- all big Red Sox fans -- and together they produce 55,000 to 75,000 cubic feet of granite per year, the AP said.

Rainout.

OMG first-EVER rainout at the NEW stadium. HISTORY!

Might just be the next best thing but not quite meeeee

I like how they thought the new place would be just like me just because it’s similarly shaped and oriented towards the sun in relatively the same way

From Yankees.com (!!!)

The numbers are staggering. Through only four games, the Yankees and Indians combined for 20 home runs at the new Yankee Stadium, 14 of them to right field. The ball seems to shoot out there, where it is 314 feet down the line -- same as the old park. And though the Yankees explained it away after hitting a few no-doubters in their Spring Training games here earlier this month, they find themselves increasingly unable to do so

Fortunately, the brilliant manager has some thoughts. "It seems to really carry to right-center and right field so far," Girardi said.

Ya THINK?

More from Yankees.com

The distances to home plate from the foul poles, from dead center field and from the gaps are identical to those at the old stadium. Perhaps the fence is shorter at points in between those markers, but that doesn't explain the way the ball is screaming over the wall. "My guess is you would have to bring in a group of engineers to figure out why it carries," Girardi said

Genius.

The team’s mouthpiece site continues:

Ideally, they'd like to see Yankee Stadium begin playing like a pitcher's park on Monday, when the Yankees take on the Athletics for the first of three games.

As if you could just will it. Now…if you had never moved in the first place, we wouldn’t be having this problem now would we?

Course you wouldn’t have sushi, champagne and $3,000 seats either I suppose.

New stadium already in MLB record books!!!

A 14-run second inning by the Indians turned into a record-setting 22-4 loss for the Yankees today.

Accuweather.com meteorologists "estimate that the angle of the seating in the new stadium could have an effect on wind speed across the field," in an interpretive news release issued by the Web site Monday afternoon: