I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
Jul. 4th, 2005 11:20 pmWheeee, Yankees game. Unfortunately I didn't have pre-knowledge of which way Yankee stadium faces and unfortunately I got us tickets in the upper deck on the third base side, which means we didn't have shade for the first three hours of the game. Three hours of sun and no sunscreen and no hat == extremely sunburnt Deanna and mildly sunburnt Nick.
It was a really long game, actually, and a huuuuuuge slugfest.
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nickjong can out me to everyone, I rooted for the Yankees today. I mean, I actually got up and shouted things like "LET'S GO YANKEES!" and clapped and stuff. See, the thing is, when you go to a game that is of two teams that you dislike, it's just a lot easier (and less risky) to root for the home team, I figured. So, I became a temporary Yankees fan. Don't tell Josh or Ficus, okay?
Don't worry, I didn't root for A-Rod.
Anyway, that said, it was a really entertaining game, much moreso than Sunday's Mets game, which was short and not very sweet. Today's was a long, drawn-out game involving a lot of scoring and a lot of pitcher switching (12 pitchers overall were used, and 21 runs overall were scored). The Yankees got off to a fast 6-0 lead, but then the Orioles chipped away at it for a few innings until it was 8-6, at which point the Yankees exploded for 7 runs in the 8th inning. It was crazy, and Jason Giambi hit two home runs, one in the first inning and one in that crazy 8th. One of his home runs was pretty funny -- he hit this huuuuuge blast into the outfield stands, but it was called foul -- so he gets back up and two pitches later blasts an even further one into the outfield stands, this time unmistakably fair.
Matsui hit a home run and they put "Gonezilla" on the scoreboard, along with the katakana for home run.
So apparently Quantrill and Stanton are gone. There's this new kid, Wayne Franklin, wearing Quantrill's old number, 48, so I was really confused when he was warming up. The very first batter this guy faced was super-star Brian Roberts. What a way to start off! He struck him out, though, which was promising, but unfortunately the next inning he got two runners on which brought it to 7-6 and thus charged him also with his very first blown save. Whee!
It's funny, but the worse the pitchers are, the more entertaining the game is, I think.
Anyway, this game lasted until like 5:30pm, which was ridiculously long (it started at 1). After it, Nick and I went to his sister and brother-in-law's house in New Jersey for a 4th of July BBQ with a whole bunch of his family. They had a lot of food and I probably hugely dishonored them by only eating a couple of things and then refusing everything else. Oops. We hung out for a while talking, and everyone was pretty cool, and then we went to see some fireworks. Then we braved the traffic and came back to the city.
It was a really long game, actually, and a huuuuuuge slugfest.
By the way, before
nickjong can out me to everyone, I rooted for the Yankees today. I mean, I actually got up and shouted things like "LET'S GO YANKEES!" and clapped and stuff. See, the thing is, when you go to a game that is of two teams that you dislike, it's just a lot easier (and less risky) to root for the home team, I figured. So, I became a temporary Yankees fan. Don't tell Josh or Ficus, okay?Don't worry, I didn't root for A-Rod.
Anyway, that said, it was a really entertaining game, much moreso than Sunday's Mets game, which was short and not very sweet. Today's was a long, drawn-out game involving a lot of scoring and a lot of pitcher switching (12 pitchers overall were used, and 21 runs overall were scored). The Yankees got off to a fast 6-0 lead, but then the Orioles chipped away at it for a few innings until it was 8-6, at which point the Yankees exploded for 7 runs in the 8th inning. It was crazy, and Jason Giambi hit two home runs, one in the first inning and one in that crazy 8th. One of his home runs was pretty funny -- he hit this huuuuuge blast into the outfield stands, but it was called foul -- so he gets back up and two pitches later blasts an even further one into the outfield stands, this time unmistakably fair.
Matsui hit a home run and they put "Gonezilla" on the scoreboard, along with the katakana for home run.
So apparently Quantrill and Stanton are gone. There's this new kid, Wayne Franklin, wearing Quantrill's old number, 48, so I was really confused when he was warming up. The very first batter this guy faced was super-star Brian Roberts. What a way to start off! He struck him out, though, which was promising, but unfortunately the next inning he got two runners on which brought it to 7-6 and thus charged him also with his very first blown save. Whee!
It's funny, but the worse the pitchers are, the more entertaining the game is, I think.
Anyway, this game lasted until like 5:30pm, which was ridiculously long (it started at 1). After it, Nick and I went to his sister and brother-in-law's house in New Jersey for a 4th of July BBQ with a whole bunch of his family. They had a lot of food and I probably hugely dishonored them by only eating a couple of things and then refusing everything else. Oops. We hung out for a while talking, and everyone was pretty cool, and then we went to see some fireworks. Then we braved the traffic and came back to the city.
