Going to the Game 2009

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

No Beltway getaway para mi-- I'll be at a wedding in Reading.

But the BetterHalfer and I are hitting the Bank of MFYica on Monday night. Anyone know where I can borrow some Rays gear?

[Fman99]

Who is coming to town for the DC series?[/quote:804n92p2]

Just Sunday's game...

[A Boy Named Seo]

Hey I'm going to that game too.[/quote:1wbgy9ks]

From Australia?[/quote:1wbgy9ks]

Yes, via Europe -- I'm leaving next Thursday and not a moment too soon, I'm fricking freezing here. So far I'm going to:

7/9 - v Dodgers
7/10 v Reds
7/11 v Reds
7/12 v Reds

And the Brooklyn Cyclones game on the 7/15.[/quote:1wbgy9ks]

Very nice - have a great trip [/quote:1wbgy9ks]

Me & the girl were trying to plan a NY trip and looking at that Dodger series, too. I mean I was looking at that Dodger series, she was looking at other shit, I'm sure.

Will post back here when we figure our crap out.

[metirish]

So with he rain out last night I think I get to see Santana at the MFY's on the 14th...I'm going to the game and I think as things stand he'll pitch that game..

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey I'm going to that game too.[/quote:22pyrxoi]

From Australia?[/quote:22pyrxoi]

Yes, via Europe -- I'm leaving next Thursday and not a moment too soon, I'm fricking freezing here. So far I'm going to:

7/9 - v Dodgers
7/10 v Reds
7/11 v Reds
7/12 v Reds

And the Brooklyn Cyclones game on the 7/15.[/quote:22pyrxoi]

Very nice - have a great trip [/quote:22pyrxoi]

Me & the girl were trying to plan a NY trip and looking at that Dodger series, too. I mean I was looking at that Dodger series, she was looking at other shit, I'm sure.

Will post back here when we figure our crap out.[/quote:22pyrxoi]

I'll be at the 7/8 game vs. LAD. You know I'm dying to meet Sheila.

Oh, and you too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Who is coming to town for the DC series?[/quote:3vpodudk]

Just Sunday's game...[/quote:3vpodudk]

What section?

[Fman99]

Who is coming to town for the DC series?[/quote:3jlzdne6]

Just Sunday's game...[/quote:3jlzdne6]

What section?[/quote:3jlzdne6]

I am waiting on that info right now. They have good seats, it's part of a season ticket package they split up with several other couples.

[Fman99]

Section 208 I am told.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Hey I'm going to that game too.[/quote:1aurqvfh]

From Australia?[/quote:1aurqvfh]

Yes, via Europe -- I'm leaving next Thursday and not a moment too soon, I'm fricking freezing here. So far I'm going to:

7/9 - v Dodgers
7/10 v Reds
7/11 v Reds
7/12 v Reds

And the Brooklyn Cyclones game on the 7/15.[/quote:1aurqvfh]

Very nice - have a great trip [/quote:1aurqvfh]

Me & the girl were trying to plan a NY trip and looking at that Dodger series, too. I mean I was looking at that Dodger series, she was looking at other shit, I'm sure.

Will post back here when we figure our crap out.[/quote:1aurqvfh]

I'll be at the 7/8 game vs. LAD. You know I'm dying to meet Sheila.

Oh, and you too.[/quote:1aurqvfh]

Down, boy. That Wilco show the following Monday night @ Keyspan is making that week look all the better. I hope we can swing this crap.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Going to see a batch of mini-MFYs, the Charleston Riverdogs, nip at the heels of the Rome Braves on Monday. We're down in SC for a family thing from tomorrow thru Tuesday and thought we'd take in a game as part of the local color. My in-laws have gone to a number of their games and say the park is pretty nice.

Hopefully we'll get to see the freak show known as Pat Venditte, the ambidextrous reliever that has been written about quite a bit lately, here and elsewhere. Otherwise all we can really hope for is to see a bunch of future storm troopers, both home and away, getting their careers cruelly cut short.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Section 140 tonight for me in rightfield. I smashed my knuckle last night in a fit of stupidity and my hand is all purple. I'll be the one failing to catch Beltran's third homer.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

But the BetterHalfer and I are hitting the Bank of MFYica on Monday night. Anyone know where I can borrow some Rays gear?[/quote:3mauiey4]

Heading over in an hour to root on Carl, Beej, and virtually anyone else who isn't wearing the vertical swastika. $30 cheap seats... and I get to be on the ESPN! (If someone hits an eventful foul ball straight back into the nosebleeds.)

Anyone here been to the Train Station yet and have any helpful hints? The online "A to Z" guides have been spectacularly unuseful.

[metirish]

No , but I'm going on Sunday so looking forward to your heads up.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Just came into some tickets for tonight's game, and my usual breddren are busy/melt in the rain, apparently.

Anyone feel like poncho-ing up and watching Johan spank some red ass redder? PM/E-mail me puh-ronto.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I will be there tonight, if I ever finish my work, with some friends from Philly. Should be interesting.

Will be all the fuck the way out in Section 538, which is as far into left field you can be, I think, and probably view obstructed in row 4 reserved.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Just came into some tickets for tonight's game, and my usual breddren are busy/melt in the rain, apparently.

Anyone feel like poncho-ing up and watching Johan spank some red ass redder? PM/E-mail me puh-ronto.[/quote:1r1aajan]

This'll be in section 526, btw.

[metirish]

This is so wrong....

Plenty of good seats available for Yanks-Mets ... at a price BY NEIL BEST | neil.best@newsday.com 11:49 PM EDT, June 8, 2009 A year ago, it would have sounded absurd: blocks of tickets to the first Subway Series at new Yankee Stadium, available at face value on the Yankees' Web site, a mere five days in advance. But there they were as of Monday afternoon, and plenty of them. Feel like taking nine very, very good friends to Friday night's game against the Mets? The tickets were yours - 10 in Section 24B, Row 7 for a mere $900 apiece, plus a $23.45 "convenience charge.'' Ten in 24B also turned up at $900 per for Sunday. How about 10 in Section 28 at $525 apiece for Saturday? All three games offered groups of 10 seats at $375 per ticket, plus $12.45 for "convenience.'' Seats at cheaper levels were more difficult to find on the Yankees' site, but as always, StubHub and other secondary outlets had plenty of availability. Still, below-face-value bargains were far fewer than for most games this season. On StubHub, which has a partnership with the Yankees, tickets for Sunday in Section 24B, Row 6 were going for $850, plus the site's $85 fee. That made the total price almost identical to what the Yankees are charging for that section.

Stubhub taking the convenience charge to the extreme.

[Fman99]

This is so wrong....

Plenty of good seats available for Yanks-Mets ... at a price BY NEIL BEST | neil.best@newsday.com 11:49 PM EDT, June 8, 2009 A year ago, it would have sounded absurd: blocks of tickets to the first Subway Series at new Yankee Stadium, available at face value on the Yankees' Web site, a mere five days in advance. But there they were as of Monday afternoon, and plenty of them. Feel like taking nine very, very good friends to Friday night's game against the Mets? The tickets were yours - 10 in Section 24B, Row 7 for a mere $900 apiece, plus a $23.45 "convenience charge.'' Ten in 24B also turned up at $900 per for Sunday. How about 10 in Section 28 at $525 apiece for Saturday? All three games offered groups of 10 seats at $375 per ticket, plus $12.45 for "convenience.'' Seats at cheaper levels were more difficult to find on the Yankees' site, but as always, StubHub and other secondary outlets had plenty of availability. Still, below-face-value bargains were far fewer than for most games this season. On StubHub, which has a partnership with the Yankees, tickets for Sunday in Section 24B, Row 6 were going for $850, plus the site's $85 fee. That made the total price almost identical to what the Yankees are charging for that section.

Stubhub taking the convenience charge to the extreme.

[metirish]

Question

I'm going Sunday.....my sister-in-law gave me the ticket a few months ago. It was one of those E-tickets. I lost the damn thing, she says she will just reprint it. Can you do that?

I'm thinking not.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sure. The only problem would be if someone else found the original and got there before you.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Saw the only living switch-pitcher in baseball live and in person on Monday. Pat Venditte of the Charleston Riverdogs did get into the game vs. the Rome Braves. The bad news - he faced five righthanded batters, so we never got to see him do the switch-pitch thing in the game. It did look pretty cool in the bullpen, though.

[Guest themetfairy]

Sure. The only problem would be if someone else found the original and got there before you.[/quote:1vyocijp]

What he said.

Have fun at the game!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Saw the only living switch-pitcher in baseball live and in person on Monday. Pat Venditte of the Charleston Riverdogs did get into the game vs. the Rome Braves. The bad news - he faced five righthanded batters, so we never got to see him do the switch-pitch thing in the game. It did look pretty cool in the bullpen, though.[/quote:2x5gbkgv]

Does he go left-right-left-right when he warms up, or does he alternate sets (10 left/10 right, e.g.)?

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm off to see the B-Mets in Trenton.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Saw the only living switch-pitcher in baseball live and in person on Monday. Pat Venditte of the Charleston Riverdogs did get into the game vs. the Rome Braves. The bad news - he faced five righthanded batters, so we never got to see him do the switch-pitch thing in the game. It did look pretty cool in the bullpen, though.[/quote:3kqdnjq3]

Does he go left-right-left-right when he warms up, or does he alternate sets (10 left/10 right, e.g.)?[/quote:3kqdnjq3]

Much more like the 10 left/10 right. He finished the eighth, then did 4/4 when he took the mound for the ninth.

[stevejrogers]

Saw the only living switch-pitcher in baseball live and in person on Monday. Pat Venditte of the Charleston Riverdogs did get into the game vs. the Rome Braves. The bad news - he faced five righthanded batters, so we never got to see him do the switch-pitch thing in the game. It did look pretty cool in the bullpen, though.[/quote:2k774t2h]

Greg Harris is still alive at the present time.

[ashie62]

Question

I'm going Sunday.....my sister-in-law gave me the ticket a few months ago. It was one of those E-tickets. I lost the damn thing, she says she will just reprint it. Can you do that?

I'm thinking not.[/quote:2cxzdg3k]

The reprinted bar code will work as long as sometime else doesn't use it first..You sure you want to go?

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Saw the only living switch-pitcher in baseball live and in person on Monday. Pat Venditte of the Charleston Riverdogs did get into the game vs. the Rome Braves. The bad news - he faced five righthanded batters, so we never got to see him do the switch-pitch thing in the game. It did look pretty cool in the bullpen, though.[/quote:1z6ebx43]

Greg Harris is still alive at the present time.[/quote:1z6ebx43]

Give him my regards at the next meeting.

[stevejrogers]

Saw the only living switch-pitcher in baseball live and in person on Monday. Pat Venditte of the Charleston Riverdogs did get into the game vs. the Rome Braves. The bad news - he faced five righthanded batters, so we never got to see him do the switch-pitch thing in the game. It did look pretty cool in the bullpen, though.[/quote:1llxmvf1]

Greg Harris is still alive at the present time.[/quote:1llxmvf1]

Give him my regards at the next meeting.[/quote:1llxmvf1]

Just letting you know you should have said active instead of living.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Question

I'm going Sunday.....my sister-in-law gave me the ticket a few months ago. It was one of those E-tickets. I lost the damn thing, she says she will just reprint it. Can you do that?

I'm thinking not.[/quote:2kh4t6j6]

Sorry no in-depth review... busy all week, then... well... not so much in the mood for an in-depth assessment.

1) Get there WAY early if you're checking Monument Park-- I got in two hours before gametime, and only barely got in.

2) Do enter through the Great Hall at Gate 6 (River and 161st, near the subway)-- it's worth seeing (if only to disdain). Resist the urge to purchase Acela tickets and/or apply for a loan. Once in, ask one of the folks with the "Ask Me" cardboard circles if you can get a Fan Guide-- much more useful in navigating the place, which is plenty recursive/deja-vu inducing, than anything I've seen online.

3) I have no interest in seeing those lurid this-is-how-I-committed-the-murder MSNBC specials, nor in seeing what a Nazi WWII museum would have been like. Similarly, I skipped the Yankee Museum.

4) If you're a meat-eater, you need one of the Lobel's steak sandwiches before you head up to your seats (Field Level, past the food court in LF)... it's dry-aged beef on a asiago-cheese accented roll, with olive tapenade and/or garlicky horseradish sides. It's $15. It's worth a try (if only one, split three ways). You can also gawk at the swells in the glassfront Legends Lounge-- we made faces at a dyspeptic-looking Tommy Lasorda when we went.

If you're feeling slightly little more downmarket, Carl's Philly Steaks (Field 107) are decent, and there's a wide range of mediocre stuff at the food court near Lobel's.

5) Beers selection is generally limited, unless you're hitting Beers of the World ("Main" Level at 3rd base, Grandstand just left of home plate and near 1st), where you can pay 11 bucks for a piss-poor Guinness pour. Prost!