Dude,
I was at the game, it was a blast (3 blasts, to be exact). Leading to A-Rod's last at bat, "Also Sprach Zarathustra" blared from the speaker system (maybe I should just call it the "2001 Theme" or the "Ric Flair Theme") along with a video montage. Way cool.

Dave.
P.S. Honorable Mention to Carl Pavano.

Although I'd probably give A-Rod's game the nod thanks to his RBI total and those two-out stats, since I didn't watch last night I'm going with a homer pick and taking Mike Cameron's four-bomb game as the best I've ever seen. Things I'll never forget about that one:

- What could have been: Cameron was beaned in his fifth plate appearance, and hit a warning track shot in his sixth.
- Most impressive aspect: He and Bret Boone went back-to-back. Twice. Before the first inning was over.
- Least impressive aspect: He finished the game with only four RBI.

I knew you'd write about A-Rod's game last night. You're predictable in that sort of Yankees fan way...

My first thought when I saw the highlights of the game was 'oh, you know that's going to be a baseball trivia question- Who hit 3-homer games for 3 different teams?'

Johnny Mize and Dave Kingman also had three-homer games for three different teams.

I don't remember much about Cameron's four-homer game, but back-to-back twice in the first? Wow.

I thought the most amazing thing last night was that we were up 11-3 in the sixth and A-Rod had 10 of those RBIs. Just an amazing one-man show.

PK- actually studies have shown that a black or dark background with white or light colored text is not only easier to read but MUCH easier to look at, especially for extended periods of time.

Really? Not for my eyes.

Somebody definitely missed the boat on this study, including nearly every newspaper, magazine and book ever printed, as well as most major websites where a small fraction of lost business could hurt significantly -- Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, CNN, etc.

Dark text on a white background for me everytime.

Hey Moron, I wouldn't trade 1 Jose Reyes and his $300k salary for 10 Jason Giambis at $12.5mil a pop!

The GUSHING over A-Rod's big game is ridiculous. You hated on him every pitch he saw in Camden Yards and I had to listen to it!

He's a stud, Hall-of-Famer and over 162 games, he will prove that. Yanks are also paying $22 million a year for his services, while Soriano's making 1/4 of that.

Look to your Rent-A-Wreck pitchers every year if you want to figure out why the Yanks haven't won the World Series.

A-Rod deserved all the criticism he got because, before last night, he didn't do much to warrant back-page headlines, other than get traded, start fights, swpie at gloves and make a crucial error when we could have had an opening-series sweep.

Last night, he was so far and away the shining star in the stadium, it was unbelievable. This wasn't 5 RBIs in a 19-8 game. This was a $25 million player. (And, of course, he's worth more to the Yanks than he would be for any other team, because the Yankees are a global brand, while the rest of the peons just play baseball.)

The next time the Yankees get slammed in a game I'll know why: they're too worried about being a "global brand" to play baseball with the rest of the major league "peons".

Hmmph.