Baseball Season is Already Over for Us Yankee and Phillies Fans

Posted on October 26, 2010 by itees

Last week the ALCS & NLCS baseball couldn’t have been more exciting. As a Yankee fan, I was thrilled to have gone to Game 5 and wanted my team to win so badly I wore a few good luck charms. I had hoped the Yankees were thinking the same way we fans were. Please don’t lose & let another team celebrate in our stadium.

The view from my seat in Yankee Stadium, October 20, 2010

Luckily, the game had all sorts of nail-biting situations, home-runs, great pitching, the makings of a great game. The yankees won and we were singing and dancing all the way home, “We’re going to Texas, we’re going to Texas!”

But once they got to Texas it all fizzled out so fast. Our wonderful high came crashing down and for the Yankees, their season was over.

Turning to the National League, they had the opposite happen. They lost Game 6 but in their own stadium and had to watch the SF Giants celebrate. It was awful watching and seeing the fans expressions, I knew just how they felt. While SF celebrated, there was an unreal silence from the crowd.

This wednesday the World Series begins between the Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants, but I wonder whether most baseball fans will be watching. Now that both the Yankees and the Phillies are out, I know that I won’t have the same interest as I would have if my team were in it. It’s because we follow our east coast teams and when they’re all out of it, for us loyal fans, it’s like the season is already done.

So, I’ll be watching, but I just won’t have anyone to root for and it won’t matter to me who wins, not the kind of baseball I like to watch.

Oh Yes, Baseball Season is Back!

Posted on April 8, 2010 by itees

I don’t know who’s more excited, the players, the announcers or me? This past Sunday the Yankees started their quest for championship #28 and who better to get the season going than the greatest rivalry teams in sports, Red Sox vs Yankees. It’s not easy hitting a home run over that Green Monster in Fenway Park! but… three games down and the Yanks are ahead 2-1. Whew!

It’s amazing how the anxiety quickly comes back. The nail biting, nervousness, walking back and forth, getting right up on the tv and I’m back to yelling at the players when they stink and praising them when they do well.

I CAN’T WAIT TO GET TO THE GAME!

new-yankee-stadium

There are some new graphics and spots from the YES network during the game. They’ve added other statistics to the menu, so we can track the pitch count and the speed of each pitch.

Of course there are the players that were traded away and I’m sure missing Melky Cabrera, Johnny Damon, and Hideki Matsui. This always bothers me because these are some of the players that helped them win #27. But I suppose the club has to do what it has to do, even if we (the fans) don’t like it.

One thing I’ve noticed from the announcers… they aren’t waiting very long to judge a player’s performance. It’s only been a few games and already they’re questioning if someone still has it? They’re already worried about David Ortiz, (is he too old, lost his oomph?) However the fact that Mark Teixeira hadn’t hit till game 3 wasn’t a problem, so is there age discrimination in baseball? I suppose it’s always been there but they usually waited more than 2 games to pass judgement. Of course when it comes to Mariano Rivera no one cares how old he is, and we hope he’ll pitch forever.

I’d like to send a cheer out to Andy Pettitte, Jaba Chamberlain (who’s back in the bullpen) and AJ Burnett for doing a great job against the Red Sox.

The first three match ups are tough ones and it’s a great way to test if the Yankees worked hard in Spring training and are ready to play. We’re sure ready to watch and cheer them to another victory!

Yankees World Series Parade 2009

Posted on November 6, 2009 by itees

I couldn’t sleep and got up early this morning because I was going to my first Yankees World Series, ticker-tape parade. Being a diehard Yankee fan, and feeling like a kid going to my first parade, what could be more exciting? Oh, it was a Yankee parade and had all the Yankee players in it!

We bought our ferry tickets from Hoboken to the World Financial Center, and all boarded the boat, to take us across. Yankee shirts, jackets, and hats, of course, worn by all, and if you needed a shirt or hat, everything including blow up bats were for sale, once on the streets in lower Manhattan. You know I bought another Yankees 27th World Series t-shirt!

Fans watching the Yankees World Series Parade 2009

The sea of people moved along slowly toward the Parade route and we all looked up the streets continuing on, to see if there would be any room to get close enough, to see anything. We walked a few blocks and finally just chose a street. Inching, bit by bit, we made it within a fair distance to the Parade route, but couldn’t see very much. I’d never been so tightly squished and for the most part everyone was orderly and patient. Cheering rose up every time someone saw something. The parade seemed to go a bit slow and fans were getting restless and claustrophobic, including myself.

Fans were doing all they could like climbing trees and buildings, anything to get high enough to catch a glimpse. I took some photographs (see my gallery) of the fans, crowds and tried to get the floats, but it wasn’t easy. You’ll see in one photo I did catch Hideki Matsui, just barely! Whoo Hoo! Even though it was hard to see most of the Parade, it was thrilling to be among the million fans that came out to show the Yankees how much we love them. The Yankee players and the Yankee fans are the greatest!

Below is a little video I found on YouTube.com, from the New York Post, which shows the Yankee players on floats in the parade, comments from Yogi Berra, Jaba Chamberlain, Reggie Jackson, Phil Coke, Derek Jeter, Melky Cabrera, Nick Swisher and Mayor Bloomberg handing out keys to the city and of course the millions of fans. I’m in there somewhere!