Category: Yankee Fan Memories
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June 3, 2007: Community Values (Dinner on Arthur Ave. in the Bronx)
“I had dinner last night at Dominck’s on Arthur Avenue, a Bronx Italian-food institution where there is no menu, they only take cash, and there’s an hour wait for a table for dinner on Saturday night. Last night as we climbed the steps up to the waiting room, Doug Mientkiewicz was on the ground being…
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May 22, 2007: Warming Up
“Who knew that winning two games in a row would feel so darn good? Maybe it’s like hot and cold. They say if you put one hand in cold water and one hand in hot water, and then put them both in the same bowl of lukewarm water, the cold hand will think it’s hot…
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April 29, 2007: Odds on Evens
“One of the baseball adages oft-repeated by grizzled third-base coaches and Little League parents alike is ‘it all evens out.’ Those screaming liners that were caught, robbing a hit, even out by those soft dribblers that the infield can’t get to. Well, Yankees fans and Red Sox fans alike know that the disparity between the…
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March 10, 2007: Simple Pleasures
“It was a tidy little game at Legends Field tonight. The Yankees scored four runs in the second, in a nine-man inning kicked off by Alex Rodriguez. Alex had a much better day than Wednesday, tonight playing flawlessly in every respect both offensively and defensively. Also, everyone in the audience–in my section anyway–noticed that tonight…
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March 7, 2007: Sprung!
“At Legends Field tonight, people were complaining of the cold. The temperatures were in the mid-sixties, the wind on the cool side. Speaking as someone who left Boston yesterday where it was eight–yes (8)–degrees with a wind chill of minus-thirty, all I can say is: hah! It’s lovely here in Tampa and don’t you forget…
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October 12, 2006: Twisted Fate (Baseball, Plane Crashes, and NYC)
“I saw the news about the plane crash while doing errands with a good friend yesterday. We were walking through Davis Square in Somerville, just as it was starting to drizzle, feeling good about ourselves for having visited the post office and farmer’s market before heavy rain started to fall. As we were passing Mike’s,…
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October, 6 2006: ALDS Game Three
“Well, I tried my best. Joe Torre always says that game three of a five-game series is the pivotal one, so I broke out the heavy artillery tonight. First, we switched bars, heading off to the Sports Depot in Allston to watch the game. The Sports Depot used to be a train station, and it’s…
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October 5, 2006: ALDS Game 2
“Stifled! I hate it when cliches are true. The baseball cliche that applied most strongly in the Bronx this afternoon was “good pitching beats good hitting.” The Tigers’ 4-3 win over the Yankees was eked out without benefit of a single big inning…”
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October, 4 2006: Reign Delay?
“There we were, at the bar, drinks in hand, scorecards ready, the HD TV splashing our faces with color, watching those dreaded words scrolling across the bottom of the screen: “Weather Delay.” We passed the time playing Hangman and eating chicken wings. It will not surprise you to hear that the first word corwin attempted…
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October 3, 2006: ALDS Game 1
“Oh, it feels good to win in October, doesn’t it? I watched ALDS Game One from the Forest Cafe in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The crowd in there absolutely loves baseball, but hates the Yankees. But they are used to me there, and we always talk baseball at the bar (even when it isn’t baseball season), so…