The Yankees had a two run lead going into the top of the 9th inning tonight, meaning it was Mariano Rivera time. Mariano is, as pretty much everyone who has watched baseball in the last several years knows, a very special player and it is a pretty big deal to most people at Yankee Stadium [...]
NO PLEBIANS ALLOWED
Lonn Trost doesn’t want any smelly NYU about-to-be-graduates sitting in the Legends seats. [Picture Credit to Subway Chatter] This goes well with those quote from the aforementioned noted hater of the working class stiff: There’s an area by the Legends Suite which is not an area that fans can get into,” Trost said. “If you [...]
New Yankee Stadium Relocation — End Game Thoughts
Payment for 2009 Yankees partial plans is due at the end of next week (the 27th, to be exact), and I still haven’t heard anything about my midweek plan so I assume that it is just dead. I will probably buy my friend’s midweek plan that he can’t use, but it would have been nice [...]
Strange and Bizarre Yankee Security Decisions
The Yankees have a history of introducing new rules and not telling anyone, or having completely arbitrary rules for about a week that they change. In the 12+ years I’ve been going to games, the following have been banned at some time or other, usually not for more than a season at the most: Umbrellas [...]
Mussina Pitches…This Time It's 7 Scoreless Innings???
Alright, I don’t know who gave Mussina the time machine but please let him keep it through the end of the year. Last night he didn’t even get in any trouble, which was completely amazing. The Orioles are not a good team, but a lot of that is the pitching as they have some very [...]
The Perfect Baseball Game
Last night was my idea of a perfect game. Not an actual perfect game or a no hitter or anything above and beyond the normal (though I’ve seen those too), but a game that I wish every game could be. In the Bronx, versus the Red Sox, Andy Pettitte starting. It’s August, the Yankees are [...]
Things Continue To Look Terrible For Michael Vick
From ESPN: With two more co-defendants distancing themselves from Michael Vick, the embattled Falcons quarterback was considering on Monday whether to accept a plea agreement for his alleged role in a dogfighting operation. Sources told ESPN’s Kelly Naqi that Vick attorneys Larry Woodward and Billy Martin met with federal prosecutor Michael Gill and the investigators [...]