Archive of posts filed under the life category.
Who’s Going To Talk To Alex Now?
I realize that I am very late in writing my obligatory reaction to Andy Pettitte retiring but I was hit with the deadly combo of being sick for several days and then immediately being slammed with work. I’ve had zero energy for the last two weeks and so it was hard to sit down and [...]
The $5 Game Chronicles
In addition to the three partial season plans that I hold, I picked up three additional pairs of tickets from the pool of $5 games that the Yankees do each year. I wound up only being able to make one of them, and it wasn’t a very good game. I’m working on distracting myself from [...]
Wherein I Whine About Laptops
I go to a lot of baseball games during the season, mostly Yankees games. I am able to do so because I have a pretty good job and use most of my allocated entertainment funds on tickets and ticket plans. I don’t (usually) work crazy hours and I am (usually) not on call, but I [...]
Five Games in Four Days: The Aftermath
I think it’s important for me to start this off with a confession: I actually wound up going to only four games in four days, which is slightly less insane than five in four. I got myself together on Friday and went down to Yankee Stadium, got in the security line and then saw that [...]
Five Games In Four Days
Yesterday, I went to the Yankees/Mariners game with a friend. The night before I went to the Yankees/Mariners game with a different friend. Today marks the third day of my little baseball marathon of five games in four days. I’ll be going to the Yankees/Blue Jays game in the Bronx today at 1pm and then [...]
Watching Baseball With My Cat
This week marked a new and rather sad chapter in my life. After twenty years, I had to say goodbye to my cat Francis who I had the pleasure of owning since he was born in my parents’ apartment. When I say owned, I mean that I took care of him and fed him and [...]
How I Learned to Love Mike Mussina
Plenty of you kids out there only have memories of Mike Mussina as a Yankee and only sort of know that he was originally with Baltimore. But he was, and he was great there and I hated him. Not quite as much as I hated Roger Clemens, of course, but players as great as the [...]
In Rememberance of Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich played on four Yankees Championship teams and was known for being a clutch hitter. Whether that’s true or not (it’s probably not, that title is just the kind of thing that winds up sticking around forever once you do it a few times) there are other, more important and frankly more interesting things [...]
Baseball Has Been Over For A Week
This is a long ramble about the season, which I very much enjoyed being a part of even if I am just a fan and don’t actually count for anything in terms of the success the team had. I would have considered it to be a great year even if the Yankees had not been [...]
