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My roommates mom lives next door 2 Jayson Werth, of the Phillies, in FL & hung out w/ him & Chase Utley by the pool. Has a ton if stories.
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World Series Game 5: Tale of the Tweets
Funny how doing the Tale of the Tweets just isn't as much fun after a loss. But I'm a trooper, so I will carry on and put together my tweet recap of last night's disappointing Game 5. Requisite disclaimer: if you're looking for real analysis and actual game information, please look elsewhere, including River Avenue Blues, This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes and Yankeeist.
We gathered at Blondie's on the Upper West Side again for the game. It was a slightly different group from Saturday night. The roll call of Yankees tweeps was @rebecca_glass @bkabak @schwartzslaw @joepawl @karensmitty @bniche. The place was jam-packed with Yankees fans (and a couple of random Phillies fans, of course, since they seem to be everywhere). You can check out the pictures here (though there aren't that many). This one pretty much sums up the game. I'll give you my quick thoughts: Cliff Lee was much more human tonight, but AJ Burnett was, well, Bad AJ. And as I've said before, when Bad AJ is bad, he's really really bad. This was really really bad. After digging a pretty massive hole, the boys managed to chip away thanks to Alex "Unclutch" Rodriguez. But late home runs for the Phillies ultimately proved the difference, as we came up just short, 8-6, to force a Game 6 back in the Bronx on Wednesday night. Not even the rally peanut M&Ms could do their magic. Since I will probably not spend the insane amounts of money required to get a ticket to Wednesday night's potential clincher, I'll be watching the game at Blondie's again. And hope for a different result next time. Without further ado, the World Series Game 5 Tale of the Tweets:On my way to the bar for the game. Wearing new lucky shirt, lucky jeans and lucky shoes. Go Yankees! This is NY Yankees territory http://post.ly/BN6vA-Rod is so unclutch. And Cliff Lee is so unhittable.Sorry @MatthewHLeach but they're playing I Got a Feeling at the bar again.
Still doesn't prove you can hit Mo, Jimmy.More beer, please. Holy crap.
Talk about taking the wind out of a bar's sails. This place just got really quiet.
Molina squares to bunt? Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
From my friend the Phillies fan: "Philadelphia would like to thank the real AJ Burnett for showing up this evening."/shut it
Our table is calling for robot umps. Well done @jonahkeri.
And with that Pierre Thomas TD, Kung Fu Pandas have taken the lead! We now return to Yankees baseball, already in progress.
Bad AJ. Bad AJ.
It's your fault! RT @Stefmara Even though @amandarykoff yelled at me on Saturday...i think I might need to crack a Yuengling [UPDATE: @Stefmara did NOT drink the Yuengling. We are very proud of her.]
So Lee steps to the plate and @schwartzslaw and I just jinxed each other when we said "Hit him!"
The luck-changing pigs in a blanket have arrived! #rallyminihotdogs
Yankee tweeps roll call tonight at the bar: @rebecca_glass @bkabak @karensmitty @schwartzslaw @joepawl.
I know Mark Teixeira. You sir, are no Mark Teixeira.
This is what we've been saying here. RT @StaceGots Chip away.
The entire state of South Carolina just held its breath for their guy. Brett Gardner!YMCA Time!And the rally peanut M&Ms are out. If not now, when?
Damn. God Bless America a stark reminder that it is the bottom of the 7th inning.
Ok seriously why are we even pitching to Utley? FML.
Hey look! Great Monday Night Football game going on in New Orleans!
Wow the amount of Cano hate on twitter is pretty astonishing. Can we take it down a notch people?
Thankfully Matt Stairs carries a 40 pound spare tire with him. #AllFatTeam
Oh hello Yankees. I was distracted by Roddy White's awesomeness.
Sounds really loud at CBP.How does Jeter not come through? It's like the tooth fairy doesn't exist!
Kate Hudson chant at the bar!
Well on the bright side I will win 2 fantasy football games. And lose my other one by about 40 points.
Actual email received from Phillies fan friend after Game 3 on Saturday night
"The inevitability of a clean sweep for NY has left me fetal-position and near-comatose on my living room floor."
Ah, Philly. Where it's always about the glass being half full.
World Series Game 4: Tale of the Tweets
Hey boys and girls, it's time once again for another edition of World Series Tale of the Tweets, a compilation of all my tweets during last night's game. Again, you won't find a recap or analysis here. For that, check out my friends This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes, River Avenue Blues or Yankeeist.Bottom line: This was a nerve-wracking game, what with the momentum swings and the Joba gives up a 2 strike game tying home run to Pedro Effing Feliz in the 8th. I was grateful for the excellent food and wine supplied by my friend @sarapepitone of Scoreboard Gourmet despite her charmingly miniscule (read: woefully deficient) television set. Sara is an old school kind of girl, as you can see from her current technological choices.
After the rally peanut M&Ms came out in the 8th, Damon stole second and third in the 9th off Brad Lidge, A-Rod got a clutch double, Posada added insurance, and Mo got the save. Yankees now lead the Phillies 3-1.
Without further ado, I present the Game 4 Tale of the Tweets:And I'm off to watch the game with @sarapepitone. We'll have peanuts. And she promises some other fancy food. Hooray for food.This is @sarapepitone's tv. Good thing the food is delicious. http://post.ly/BFjh
Even on @sarapepitone's mini-tron, I could see Howard missed home plate.Now that is what Derek Jeter does. Be ridiculous.A shot of Sabathia in the dugout. And he's not yawning!Way ahead of you. RT @rebecca_glass This game is going to make me tear my hair out. Just sayin'.CC. You are my hero. Or hoagie, I guess, since you're in Philly.7th Inning Stretch: The Legend of the All-Fat Team http://post.ly/BGMXThe Montepulciano at @sarapepitone's goes well with the peanut M&Ms. Who knew?Pedro effing Feliz???? *sigh*
How did that just happen? Go Johnny go!Too nervous to even say anything. Come on. Come on. Come on.And the rally peanut M&Ms have worked once again! A-Rod!Well, Brad Lidge still hasn't blown a save in the post season.Ladies and gentlemen: the great Mariano Rivera. #yankeesIn honor of the constant DirecTV ads w/Wayne's World, to Johnny Damon I say, "We're not worthy."As I walked home from @sarapepitone's, one of the bars on Third Ave was still playing New York, New York.
Yankees 8 Phillies 5 - NY takes 2-1 World Series lead. Game 4 is 8:20 pm ET Sun @ Citizens Bank Park on FOX & htt...
#Yankees 8 #Phillies 5 - NY takes 2-1 World Series lead. Game 4 is 8:20 pm ET Sun @ Citizens Bank Park on FOX & http://Postseason.TV (via @MLB)
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World Series Game 3: Tale of the (Trick or) Tweets
Once again, here are all my tweets from World Series Game 3 on Halloween night. I did not travel to Philadelphia (though many people thought I would make the easy trip down the turnpike).
Instead, I watched at Blondie's on the Upper West Side with a great group of Yankee fans, including @rebecca_glass, @stefmara, @schwartzslaw, @bkabak, @larry_koestler, @emmaspan and @sarapepitone. If you want to see pictures from the evening, they're up on Flickr. Nothing too incriminating. The most popular costume on this Halloween was "Yankee fan".
I provide the same disclaimer on this recurring feature. This is not about a recap or analysis. If you're looking for that, I commend you to many of the other Yankees blogs that can provide that, including This Purist Wears Pinstripes, River Avenue Blues (recap courtesy of Ben Kabak) and Yankeeist. I do this tweet recap more for myself to memorialize the "of the moment" thoughts, but you fine folks seem to enjoy it as well. In terms of the game, it was a typical Yankees win. Down early, but gritty pitching from Andy after a rough start and home runs from A-Rod (his first World Series home run, not without controversy, of course), Swisher and Matsui, got us the lead. The great Mariano Rivera retired the last two Phillies, including Jimmy Rollins to end it. Oh, and the Yankees now have a 2-1 series lead.
Without further ado, I present World Series Game 3: Tale of the Tweets.
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But you can't win against Sabathia tomorrow and the day after! What says! Yankees MLB Phillies Sports
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What a Difference a Day Makes
What a difference a day makes! It may be cliche, but here's the thing about cliches: they are true.
When it came to the World Series, what a difference a day made for the Yankees. It's not just because the Yankees lost Game 1 and won Game 2. No. Everything was different from the start. The atmosphere. The mood. The vibe. The weather. The pitchers. The whole experience.
Let's start with the opening concert: Jay-Z and Alicia Keys had been scheduled to perform Empire State of Mind before Game 1, but rescheduled for the next night allegedly due to weather concerns (as it turns out, Jay-Z was overscheduled).
I only saw the last minute of the show (I didn't get a ticket until 6:30, so I couldn't get to the Stadium as early as usual), but people were digging the music. Empire State of Mind has been Jeter's walk-up song, so it was an easy fit for this crowd. Were people going nuts? Of course not. But did it set a nice tone? Absolutely.
Next, the weather. Seriously. This cannot be emphasized enough. Game 1 was played in a raw, nasty swirling mist and rain. Sitting up in Section 414 with the gusting wind? It was cold and wet. I was pretty miserable and almost too cold to use my blackberry.Game 2? Played in perfect baseball conditions on a cool comfortable clear autumn night. Talk about a difference.
What about the game itself? Oh yes, there might have been a slight difference as well.Let's take the starting pitchers. The Phillies trotted out Pedro Martinez. Pedro Martinez in Game 2 of the World Series? At Yankee Stadium? How awesome is that? One last chance to chant "Who's Your Daddy?" This was just too good.
And Pedro pitched great, obviously feeding off the crowd. For every "Who's Your Daddy" chant, Pedro responded with a strikeout (maybe I'm exaggerating, but it sure seemed that way). But Teixeira and Matsui both took him deep (Matsui golfed a very good pitch) and the Yankees had their first lead of the series at 2-1. Manuel then kept him in one inning too long (Yankee Stadium deja vu much? Paging Grady Little) and Pedro took the loss.
AJ Burnett pitched for the Yankees.It's AJ's first year with the Yankees, and we love him for introducing pie as the team's newest (and very popular) tradition. But he's been inconsistent on the mound. Would it be "Good AJ" or "Bad AJ"? Good AJ can be very very good. Bad AJ? Well, there's a reason we call him "Bad AJ". So here we are in a must-win game for the Yankees and we didn't know which AJ would show up.
From pitch one to Jimmy STFU Rollins (a strike), it looked like we had Good AJ. And when you have Good AJ, you like your chances. Good AJ was dealing. 22 of 26 first pitch strikes. 9 strikeouts over 7 innings. 1 run. And of course because the Yankees had the lead, Mariano Rivera could come in for the 2 inning save. Talk about a difference maker - he's only the greatest closer of all time.
How about the crowd?
Look, the new Stadium will never be like the old Stadium. Period. End of story. So let's just get that out of the way. But was the crowd on Thursday night better than the crowd on Wednesday night? Definitely. Yankeeist wrote an excellent blog post on this very topic (inspired by an exchange he and I had on Twitter).
People were leaving in droves on Wednesday. It was cold. It was miserable. And the Yankees didn't stand a chance against Cliff Lee. Look, we were being owned, but come on. It's the World Series. Stay til the end (this is a major pet peeve of mine. I do not leave games early. And yes, I am originally from Los Angeles).
Some said that the Game 1 crowd was more corporate than Game 2. Maybe so, but that still doesn't explain it completely. The crowd for Game 2 stayed until the end (or at least that was my perception, there were reports that people were leaving in droves - I didn't see it).
Oh one more thing from my leaving early soapbox: why would you ever leave a game - much less a World Series game - when Mariano Rivera is coming in to pitch? This will be the subject of another post another time. Inconceivable.
Another note on the crowds. As Yankeeist already said, in Game 1 the Yankees were out of the game, being owned by Cliff Lee and cold. It's hard to cheer and be high energy when there's nothing to cheer for. Game 2 there was much more to cheer for, but the crowd didn't seem to understand some basic fundamentals, starting with standing on a 2 strike count.
After the Yankees took the lead on Matsui's home run in the bottom of the 6th, AJ looked strong to start the next inning and quickly got ahead of Ibanez 0-2. I immediately jumped to my feet and started clapping. Only a few others did the same thing, so I gestured wildly to my section and yelled "Stand up! 2 strikes!" A few others joined and then some more. And then boom, AJ struck Ibanez out. We sat back down again and then Burnett quickly had 2 strikes on Matt Stairs. On my feet again, I exhorted my sectionmates to join me. They did. And boom, another strikeout. High fives all around.
After the game one of my neighbors (an older man who came all the way from Virginia for the game) told me that the game turned around when I told everybody to stand up for every 2 strike count.
Another potential game-changer? A mid-game change our luck Tweet-up with Rebecca Glass of This Purist Wears Pinstripes that we believe caused the Teixeira home run. Who's to say that we didn't?
And finally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the final score: Yankees 3, Phillies 1. While it wasn't the only difference the day made, it was certainly the most important.
For pictures and video of Games 1 and 2, check out my Flickr photostream.My Favorite Shots from a Great Game: World Series Game 2 Highlights
I took over 200 photos at last night's World Series Game 2. I'm still going through them and culling out the best, which will be posted on Flickr over the weekend. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite shots from last night's 3-1 Yankees win, including some of the pre-game fanfare (Jeter receiving the Clemente Award for public service, John Legend's national anthem, Paul O'Neill throwing out the first pitch).
Not pictured: either of the home runs by Teixeira (hit during my successful mid-game change our luck tweet up with Rebecca Glass of This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes) or Matsui (too busy jumping up and down celebrating in the stands when he hit it). I do have plenty of pictures of AJ, Pedro and Mo, along with some of the classy Phillies fans near us in the stands.
All pictures were taken from Section 420B, Row 3, upper level directly behind home plate.
