Pre-game: This time my guest was a friend of mine who is (unfortunately) married to a Yankee fan. She had been at the new Al-Yankzeera Stadium the week prior so she was eager to compare the two. I’ll use her words for the comparison: Going to the stadium in the Bronx [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 22, 2009
License Plate Shenanigans
This morning on my way to work, I was behind a car whose license plate was:
GKR 4EVR
My thought?
Gary, Keith, and Ron forever? SURE!
April 20, 2009
I was there: Mets v. Brewers 4.19.09
Pre-Game
I was sitting on a planter between the train stairs and the Rotunda waiting for my friend to get in from the city. Suddenly I noticed two “suits” standing about 5-6 feet apart from one another. I quickly ascertained that they seemed to be playing the role of security and thought that [...]
April 17, 2009
Stadium Art 1964-2009
Forty five years ago on April 17, 1964 Shea Stadium had its grand opening. Since I love to come up with random rhetorical questions in my head – I think about if people that were in the stadium for its grand opening ever thought that 45 years later, the lot they had parked their [...]
April 14, 2009
Citifield: Sightlines
There was a lot of hullaballoo about sightlines at both Citifield and Al-Yankzeera once people started being allowed in for tours, etc. It quieted down for awhile, but now that we just had the official Opening Day at Citifield and people have had a chance to sit in “their” seats for the season, all [...]
April 13, 2009
Citifield: Opening Day (this time it counts!)
Tonight’s the big night – the first game at Citifield that will count for something! I think some of the excitement (for me at least) is tempered by the fact that while it’s Opening Day for the regular season, I already feel it’s “baseball” because of the Red Sox game in the beginning of [...]
April 7, 2009
Citifield: Not Sold
The short story is I was at Citifield for the Mets/Red Sox Saturday exhibition game. I can’t say that I really cared for Citifield.
Here goes the long story.
When the tickets for these games went on sale, my friend (a Red Sox fan) and I were both sitting at our computers waiting to [...]
