Category: yankees

River Avenue Blues is a really solid Yankees blog and has a few things over there caught my eye.

I was excited to hear Bob Sheppard was coming back…but unfortunately RAB now says:

Last night, we jumped the gun a bit in reporting that Bob Sheppard would be in the booth for the Yankees’ home opener. According to his wife Mary, speaking to Newsday today, Sheppard does not yet have his doctor’s permission to rejoin the Yankees. The 98-year-old is recovering from a bad bout of pneumonia, and his family and doctor do not want to risk his health. He may rejoin the Yankees when the weather in the city is warmer.

Rats.   Jim Hall is fine, but it would have been cool to have Shep.  I doubt he’ll ever do another game.

They also crow about the study that showed the Yankees are more popular than the Mets.  Didn’t everyone know that?  The Mets were the #1 team in the city for about a year in half around summer 1986, and about 5 years from Miracle to Ya Gotta Believe.   This is Yankee town.  We all know it.  Whatever.

The reason I bring it up is that someone wrote this great comment:

No one disputes Jackie Robinson’s historical importance, but what about Tom Seaver. This guy was the greatest starting pitcher in the history of New York, and he is secondary to Jackie Robinson in his team’s home park?

We’re the Dodgers.  Never forget that.

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As I’ve been honest about before, when I’m not in Flushing I like to attend baseball games.  I used to have a small plan in the Bronx where I’d go and drink some beers in the uppers.

This year the Yankees won’t sell me tickets.

I’m not going to make it out like I’m one of those guys who has had section 1 for twenty years and was sent to the back row of the bleachers behind a pole, Tuesdays only.

I’m just a newbie with a small el-cheapo plan.    They won’t sell me tickets.

I filled out my relocation package way back when, and every day I click to see if I have an invoice.  Nope.  My friends all got theirs but not me.  You’d think it would be the Mets who hate me not the Yankees.

So i clicked the “email us” tab:

I wrote you Nick.  Nick doesn’t write back.  I also defy anyone to call that number and get a human in under a half hour.

I’d like to give you some money.  Drop me a note at shannonshark at gmail dot com if you or your boss says this.  I’m even going to type George Steinbrenner, Hank Steinbrenner and Hal Steinbrenner into this sentence for no reason other than hoping I make your Google Alert.

I’d like to give you money.   Now, to be fair you do seem willing to sell me tickets at $350 per seat but I can’t roll like that.   Sit behind the pole, Tuesdays only.  That’s fine.  I just want to have a beer.

How about it Nick, how about a shout back?

Check out my blog-crush New Stadium Insider for more about how you too won’t be able to buy tickets.

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