{"id":3928,"date":"2008-04-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:20:21","slug":"tim-and-i-at-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"Tim and I at last night’s Yankee game- Yanks won 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were at the game courtesy of our winning a drawing at the Business Council of Westchester “Mega Mixer,” which I talked about here. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Westchester Business Council Mega-Mixer sends Farandas to Yankee Stadium<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew we would be in the upper deck, down the left field line, but didn’t realize that the “x” row was literally the last row in the Stadium!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s Tim, and several views from where we were initially seated. You can look down onto the Bronx buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That yellow thingie in the middle of the picture is actually the left field foul pole. And I realized we were seated 35 to 40 feet higher then the top of the pole!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No complaints though – any view in Yankee Stadium is great (I’m biased) and in any case after a couple of innings we moved down a whole section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the atmosphere at the Stadium is always great. Here’s an amusing series of picture of people reacting in front of us when the mobile camera guy came around – and your live video picture can suddenly show up on the Stadium Diamond Vision screen. The cameraman is right in the middle of the pictures –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s Alex Rodriquez at bat in the sixth. Note his signature look – his pants tucked into his black socks. With men on second and third he struck out. But Jason Giambi then hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game at 2-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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in the eighth inning Joba Chamberlain pitched, with fastballs at 97 and 98 mph. In the bottom of the inning the Yanks managed the go-ahead run (despite Rodriquez striking out again with men in scoring position!) and Mariano Rivera finished up the ninth to get the save. so joba got the win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Stadium is really coming along and our quick view of it – well it looks gorgeous. Too bad I didn’t get a picture. As anyone who follows baseball knows, the current Stadium will be torn down at the end of this season. You can do a group tour of the Stadium any day of the week, and beside catching another game or two, I think I might bring the family down for the tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the one picture Tim took tonight – a picture of me on our way down to the game. We’d stopped at a Rally – more on that later –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and here’s the game report from the Yankee’s website  The Official Site of The New York Yankees: News: New York Yankees News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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