A friend sent this to me:
The Loge level (which sucked anyway) is going to be completely displaced by luxury boxes. Not a real surprise (or loss) but that is a lot of season ticket holders to move later especially given the huge increases of luxury seating elsewhere. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep my plan [...]
Phew, I had a long week at Yankee Stadium as I often do when the Yankees are playing against non big-ticket teams. I saw some good, some bad, and had some death wishes. Here’s my observations on this week:
Jorge Posada being back in the lineup is great, and really strengthens the bottom of the order. [...]
Last night marked the fourth night in a row that Mariano Rivera pitched. He has pitched three games in a row a lot, but I was unsure about more than that so I decided to look up the times Rivera has pitched four games in a row over his career on Baseball Reference and came [...]
We took a trip this weekend to go check out Minute Maid Park (and see the Yankees play). Wang got hurt at the game we were at unfortunately but at least the park is nice. Here are some pictures:
The view from our seats:
The scoreboard at MMP, which I thought was awesome:
The Astros lineup was gimped [...]
Two series, two sweeps in a row. This is a good thing, because other than the Oswalt/Wang matchup things were pretty lopsided in the Yankees favor. If they can’t sweep the Padres this year, well I just don’t want to think about it.
Tonight the Reds series starts and pitching for Cincinnati is Edison Volquez who [...]
I went to the first game of my Staten Island Yankees ticket plan today, and was very excited to see Pat Venditte pitching. I even used my camera to grab some videos:
End of his warmups, you can see him switch arms here:
First batter, throwing lefty:
Second batter, throwing righty:
Third batter: throwing lefty again:
I know Damon Oppenheimer [...]
Going through some really old comics of mine, I found this ad from about 1997:
Not sure what a shortstop has to do with runners never reaching second but hey, it’s cute.
Ugh, it’s official:
I know they’re hoping to capture some of the “hot streak” Ponson had in a bottle and there is no Roger Clemens to sign this year but I feel this is going to be an absolute disaster. Is there any way to heal Chien-Ming Wang faster because I miss him so much already.
Other [...]
A few days ago ESPN’s Daily Poll was “Who is your favorite Jason Giambi”. I forgot about it briefly until I stumbled on the screenshot I took of it. I just want to record this for history:
Also, I voted for Team USA Giambi because he’s so hilariously skinny. Clean cut Giambi on the other hand, [...]
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