My Canon SD500 is out of the hospital and back in spring training, gearing up for my my two-week west coast U.S. trip starting on July 19.
Here's where I took it to celebrate America's 229th birthday Monday:
Yankee Stadium: Bronx, N.Y.
• Twelve pitchers, 397 pitches, 21 runs, 22 hits, 15 walks, four hit batsmen, and me absolutely cooking in the sun for FOUR HOURS AND 12 MINUTES TO PLAY 8½ INNINGS! One of those games where if you lose, you don't ride the subway home; you throw yourself in front of it.
• If you're gonna watch the Nathan's hot-dog eating contest — as I did at Yankee Tavern — do it on an empty stomach. Absolutely disgusting.
• With three-fifths of the starting staff shelved and a shake-up all season in our middle relievers (Karsay, Quantrill, Stanton all bye-bye), here's who we rolled out for the first eight innings on a $200 million payroll: Sturtze, Proctor, Franklin and Anderson. Sounds like a law firm. One that doesn't make as much as Felix Rodriguez combined ($3.15 million).
• Did anyone see Bubby Crosby's 75th birthday present for The Boss, when he ran up and slid into Jason Giambi at second base, when the Giambino had to hold up at first to see if a bloop would be caught? I have to see that again. They didn't show a Stadium replay of the most embarrassing play since Carlton Fisk of the White Sox tagged out both Bobby Meacham and Dale Berra in a span of a half-second in 1985.
• Sammy Sosa has one hit in his last 37 at-bats, hitting .225 overall. What a precipitous decline. He walks to the plate and everyone's like, "Sosa's up, cool."
• Your Mariano Rivera-Keith Foulke comparison of the week: Foulke (39 IP, 27 earned runs, 6.23) would now need to pitch 253 straight scoreless innings to match Rivera's 0.83 ERA (3 earned runs in 27.2 innings). I'm thinking we can get to 300 before the week is out.
• Big Unit and Flash. We need you guys Tuesday afternoon.
Macy's Fireworks, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Thanks to my man G-Money and his gal for hosting us at a righteous Brooklyn Heights BBQ. Awesome view from that promenade.
• 40,000 fireworks in 30 minutes is always cool as shit.
• Tough to shoot these things without a tripod, but I'm pleased with some shots.
Glad to see your camera's rehab assignment went better than Schilling's.
Posted by art at July 5, 2005 1:18 PM