Yankees vs. Mets – Split Doubleheader

Now that was a hell of a long day.

After the sun came out and it got uncomfortably hot and Dan Giese and Mike Pelfrey threw nearly 200 pitches in the first five innings I wanted to kill myself.

Fan of the Game

I need to put this in here somewhere because I just spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to spell Eddie Scezzari and got sidetracked by Mike and The Mad Dog’s wikipedia page. Matt’s the only other person I know who knows who Eddie is – he actually brought the name up – but I highly doubt anyone else in the entire world has typed “Eddie Scezzari” into a Google image search.

But yeah, this guy was just rambling on about how much he hates the Mets. I can never get enough of that.

Then on to Shea…

Listening to Howie Rose’s call of Delgado’s grand slam was a great time sitting in traffic in the sweltering heat. The ride over wasn’t all that bad, and we ended up in what looked like a decent parking lot.

That was the view of the new Citi field. Having two new stadiums in New York next summer is going to be a great experience, assuming our Yankee ticket plan carries over and we can get in.

Then Billy went to pee and came back and said some guy gut run over by a golf cart. Then things got interesting. The guy was hit by a parking lot attendant, and he needed to be taken away in an ambulance. The video is coming. I was fumbling around with the brand new camera but it was pretty interesting.

When i went into the Stadium in the 2nd inning I still had the camera in the wrong mode for taking long distance shots, so they came out pretty bad.

The highlight of my night was seeing the Yankee Stadium Beck’s Beer guy sitting in the first row in our section. Me and Billy went to take a picture with him, and he seemed like he was conscious, but barely. We felt really bad for the guy. He barely responded to us, and it took everything he had to swing his legs around to get in the picture with us. Whatever the reason for that is, next time you make fun of a beer guy, think of him.

In the end, it was time to say good bye to Shea Stadium. I am glad I will never have to enter that dump ever again.

And for anyone unfortunate enough to attend a game there the rest of this season

Watch out!

It’s late, the amazing reporting job on the guy getting hit by the golf cart will becoming shortly.

– Gene