It's a little after 11 pm (CT) and I had pretty much given up any hopes of finding a daily dose ... until I was directed to ESPN The Magazine's year in review story. Now, I canceled my subscription to that thing awhile ago because there was well, just too much crap in it.
Anyway - the piece was written by Chris Jones and while i'm not sure how it reads in print, or how it's laid out, i can tell you I didn't click any further than that home page because of the fact it ranked Yankee Stadium above every other "story of the year."
Sorry - NOTHING that happened in sports in 2008 tops Michael Phelps' amazing feat in Beijing. NOTH-ING.
This type of crap infuriates me. It's a BUILDING.
Yes, lots and lots of great players played there. Millions have hit the john there. But it doesn't compare to what SOMEONE ACTUALLY DID.
I'll give you that it was one of the top storylines of the entire year. But it shouldn't rank anywhere near the top 50. It's unreal how much garbage is stuffed down the nation's throats when it comes to the Red Sox and Yankees. Not everyone cares. Not EVERYTHING they do matters.
I can only hope that we don't get inundated with all kinds of crap of the "new" Yankee Stadium opens....
Rick Armstrong 
Jim Owczarski 
Mike Knapp 
Um, Jim, I wrote that story, and it's not a ranking of the stories of the year. The story just happens to start in Yankee Stadium. It's Chapter 1, not Number 1.
Had you bothered to click the next page before banging out your rant, you would have seen that in the very next section, right at the top, Michael Phelps is rightly named the performer of the year.
I would expect a feature/enterprise writer to be a better reporter.
Thanks for finding me Chris and pointing that out!
I wasn't so much knocking you or the story, as I was the order in which it appeared online...and then the fact that I feel the demolition of Yankee Stadium got WAAAAYY too much play.