Cloudy With a Chance of Yankees Fans
For the first time in ages, we had good weather for the Indians home opener. Not decent, not ok, but good, with only the vaguest trace of raindrops marring an otherwise perfect day. Travis Hafner, the pride of North Dakota hit a three run home run in the first inning, added a RBI single in the third and then walked and scored in both the fifth and seventh innings and... what's that? He plays for the Yankees now? Well, shit. That's unfortunate.
The Yankees won 11 to 6, with Robinson Cano adding two solo shots. Tribe pitchers only kept the Yankees from scoring in two of the nine frames, and were never in it after the first inning. Oh yeah, and Carlos Santana may have gotten hurt; it looks like the ball hit him on the wrist, but it's ok, you don't need your wrists in baseball, right? Right? Shit.
A few observations:
1- Thanks to it being the home opener, this was the first Yankees game I've seen at Progressive Field where the Indians outnumbered the Yankees fans... and it was still pretty close.
2- If you are keeping score with your brand new Big Red Baseball Scorebook, people will assume you know a lot more about baseball than they do. The book is slightly too large for my lap, but is still miles better than my previous two scorebooks.
3- I saw with a bunch of coworkers because apparently my company is now big enough (or the Indians are now desperate enough) that they sent some sales guys out to our office a few months ago to sell big blocks of home opener tickets. A disturbing number of them work Yankees jerseys. On the other hand, the ones with the Yankees jerseys actually stayed for the whole game.
4- Although it was clear early on that the Indians had no chance I hoped that they'd keep it close enough that Mariano Rivera would come in for the save, but the Yankees scored so many runs that wasn't going to happen. With Jeter and A-Rod on the DL, the Yankees star power was somewhat diminished.
5- The gentlemen behind me had a portable seat cushion that was actually a flask containing raspberry flavored Absolut. This represents a giant leap forward in flask technology. Isn't America wonderful?
The Yankees won 11 to 6, with Robinson Cano adding two solo shots. Tribe pitchers only kept the Yankees from scoring in two of the nine frames, and were never in it after the first inning. Oh yeah, and Carlos Santana may have gotten hurt; it looks like the ball hit him on the wrist, but it's ok, you don't need your wrists in baseball, right? Right? Shit.
A few observations:
1- Thanks to it being the home opener, this was the first Yankees game I've seen at Progressive Field where the Indians outnumbered the Yankees fans... and it was still pretty close.
2- If you are keeping score with your brand new Big Red Baseball Scorebook, people will assume you know a lot more about baseball than they do. The book is slightly too large for my lap, but is still miles better than my previous two scorebooks.
3- I saw with a bunch of coworkers because apparently my company is now big enough (or the Indians are now desperate enough) that they sent some sales guys out to our office a few months ago to sell big blocks of home opener tickets. A disturbing number of them work Yankees jerseys. On the other hand, the ones with the Yankees jerseys actually stayed for the whole game.
4- Although it was clear early on that the Indians had no chance I hoped that they'd keep it close enough that Mariano Rivera would come in for the save, but the Yankees scored so many runs that wasn't going to happen. With Jeter and A-Rod on the DL, the Yankees star power was somewhat diminished.
5- The gentlemen behind me had a portable seat cushion that was actually a flask containing raspberry flavored Absolut. This represents a giant leap forward in flask technology. Isn't America wonderful?