Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Rocket ReLaunch

Went to the Yankees game on Saturday where Roger Clemens was pitching his first game back in pinstripes. A coworker of mine got the tickets from a vendor and she just gave them to me! Man was that game awesome. Not only have I never been that close - first base about 10 or so rows up - but the Yankees won (are on a great winning streak right now - 7 after beating the Diamondbacks tonight, Wang vs Webb) and Melky Cabrera made a nice leaping catch at the wall that would have been a homerun. Oh, did I mention Roger Clemens pitched?

7 strikeouts in 6 innings. Not bad for your first game back on the mound. Though it was against the crappy Pittsburgh Pirates.

I will probably put up the pictures later. I have been lazy with posting new pictures lately because of the location of my laptop and distance from the external hard drive. One of these days!

All in all a good day. Had a catch with a friend, got some Ralph's Italian Ices, and polished it off with a Yankee win. Wish that could be an everyday routine.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Just Terrible

Well, the Yankees take 2/3 from the Red Sox then go on to lose the next game against the White Sox, who have lost 7 out of their last 8. How many more times are we going to have to watch these young kids forced to pitch in the majors? Unlike the Mets, the Yankees have no bench players or pitchers to substitute in when injuries occur. Then again, the mediocre-at-best bench players on the Mets couldn't hold their own against AL teams.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Yanks Take Game 1

The Yankees took game 1 against the Red Sox at Fenway last night. Lots of controversy going on with the Yankees (mainly involving A-Rod) including:

  • A-Rod being seen going to strip clubs with a hot blonde whose name is not Mrs. Rodriguez. A-Rod is then mimiced with 30 blonde masks by white fraternity crowd at Fenway. The noMaas Fenway demographic has about 3/4 of the fans out to be white frat kids and people with the last name Sullivan.
  • Wang got a haircut.
  • A-Rod screaming at rookie Toronto third baseman leading to a dropped pop-up. Fights ensue.
  • Scott Proctor getting tossed from the game at Fenway last night for throwing at Youkilis' head. While certainly understandable, 3 Yankees were hit during that game. The one at Cano looked intentional, though you don't throw at someones head. You hit them in the nuts.
  • Joe Torre getting thrown out of the game for arguing yet ANOTHER bad call by these little league umpires. You are getting paid to make accurate calls, stop acting like the third base foul line ump in the Snickers commercial!
As if it couldn't get any worse. Giambi is now on the DL and could likely missing the entire season. This puts more pressure on Torre to play small ball. If the Yanks fail at that, look for them picking up a bopper. The media doesn't think Bernie has a shot at coming back, but I wouldn't rule that out.

METS: they are now plagued by injuries, just as the Yankees have been. Lets see how they hold up for as long as Wright and Beltran aren't in the lineup. The Mets didn't look too pretty last night against Webb and the Diamondbacks.

Scott Proctor