Day 17: New York (NL)
Today we were in New York City to watch the Mets take on the Cincinnati Reds. Pedro Martinez was on the mound for the Mets, which is always a treat. He had a solid outing, going 6 innings and striking out 8. 3rd baseman David Wright paced the Mets offense with 2 home-runs, as the Mets were victorious by a score of 6-2. It was my choice to pick, and I had the Mets (minus 1.5), so they covered and I move to 10-3 in picking games on the trip.
Normally, at this point we thank the people we stayed with the previous night. So, we would like to give special thanks to the Flying J Travel Plazas in Brookville, PA and Mill Hall, PA. For only $4.95, we had high-speed internet access and a place to park our car and sleep for the night. These 2 locations were about 100 miles apart, so we spent a little over an hour at each location. This crazy schedule was due us going from a night game in Cleveland to a day game in New York.
This next paragraph is in honor of my doubles partner and Furman tennis standout, Andy Juc. Andy, our Eastern European representative on the team, thinks Lastings Milledge is the best baseball player in the majors. Early this year, he tried to tell us about him while he was still in the minor leages, and everyone on our team thought he was crazy. However, Juc kept us posted daily on his minor league progress, and now that Milledge is in the Big Leagues, it was only fitting that we got to see him play for the Mets. Today, he went 2-4 with 2 singles, and showed that he definitely "has all the tools" to become a superstar.
We had to pick-up our tickets, courteousy of Michael Needham, from the will call, which had a parking pass with them. We tried to pull the car off to the side of the road while Ben ran to get the tickets. While he was doing that, I stayed with the car and a policeman promptly came with sirens and said over the loudspeaker, "move the car." Since I am not adept with the stick-shift, Ben had to come sprinting the half-mile back to move the car. After a great deal of walking around to every kind of ticket booth at Shea, we finally located our tickets and enjoyed a great game.
Another contest that occurs in some of the stadiums is a race between 4 items. Today, it was cars, and once again, Ben picked the winner. He is now 3 for 3 in these contests with a 25% chance of picking the winner. Choosing 3 in a row is a 1 in 64 chance, not too shabby.
We made our way to Dunkin Donuts close to 9:00 this morning, after having driven throught most of the night. Our conclusion is that most of the northeast runs on the products served here, and we took part in the excellent breakfast food. They might start to rival Subway for most food stops along the trip.
Here are the statistical updates:
1-end of day odometer: 22,330
2-miles traveled today: 374
3-miles traveled total: 5,687
4-states traveled in today: Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York
bonus stat: in every 9-inning game that we have seen, a home run has been hit
posted by aceskay at 8:22 PM
6 Comments:
it's been fun keeping up with your progress guys, but i've got a few questions:
did lastings use all of his tools? maybe like keeping the ball low, especially on kern, because you know, he's tall and struggles with the low balls because he's tall. while always making sure if you know what he's doing what you're trying to do.
how about scott's snoring, ben? how have you dealt with it? hats are great objects to throw if he's getting at all too loud.
bonus stat: la quinta is spanish for "free high-speed internet"
Guys:
Are you sure Ben's shirt is a Ty Cobb 1907? I did a bit of research and it looks like the 1907s had smaller collars than that one. The 1908s had the more substantive collar.
And, how about a word about laundry a long the way? ... we all wonder if those shirts are climbing onto each of you on their own now.
cousin tayloe
Lastings Milledge sold his soul for a donut but when Satan came around to collect, Lastings beat him all the way back to hell. The donut was chocolate glazed and delicious.
Lastings Milledge can be compared to Gilles Simon, he's a hot prospect, but might not have a full gas cannister to keep the fire burning. Seeing as we're on hot topics, here's a hot joke for you: (All that nonsense was a way of easing the telling of this joke, it's pretty good if you're in a stage of delirium, which you guys might have experienced)
A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: "A beer please, and one for the road."
Your fury might be carumming against the walls of your brain right now.
The jersey is definitely 1907. Here are a few easy links to check (among alot of other research).
http://www.fansedge.com/ProductDetail.aspx?pfId=41-46466&fc=gbase
http://www.prosportsmemorabilia.com/ProductDetail.aspx?pfId=41-46466&fc=gbase
http://national-pastime.stores.yahoo.net/19dettighomj.html
http://shop.showcaseantiques.com/product_info.php/products_id/4418
http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/I,MN-BSTI07H00.html
Hi ya'll,
I don't know much about baseball, so I skip that part. But I have really enjoyed reading about your traveling and culinary experiences. It sounds like you are having a marvelous time!
Cousin Harriet
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