Farmer Ted

I looked high and low for the ever-inspiring Air Strip thread by Big Al (from days and forums gone by). If someone can unload that one on the forum today, I'll be foerver indebted.

The man threw out the first pitch in Boston yesterday. Huge ovation from the crowd. Great move by the BoSox. He didn't deserve all the shit he got from the media and fans.

I may only be there in spirit. Finished the book. Loved the 00 section at the end. What was Tony Clark thinking, taking an already-issued number? Sent a copy of the book to a friend and will tell him to go. And he'll tell two friends, and they'll tell two friends, and so on and so on and so on....

I hat him.

I also fear the Kaz Matsui level.

I think it's ironic that I got a haircut on the same day you reached Rey Sanchez immortality.

I liked listening to the Hawk in Chicago It was Darrin Jackson and theo ther clowns that killed that broadcast. NESN does a great job.

Not sure which talking head said it before the game so I'll paraphrase... "You're going to win 60 games, you're going to lose 60 games. It's what you do with the other 42 that makes the season special." Who writes this shit?

My staff is well aware that I will become ill around 3:30 pm and depart for home where my drug of choice will be on television. I will also be referring to my just-completed reading, Mets by The Numbers, to ensure that the writers and editors are hard at work on volume 2.

His new bride would have made a good addition to wifey watch, anyhoo. http://shannonschambeau.com/SS_Photos.html

Six BBs according to the live box. Hmm.

Ad clowns. http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/0325/mlb_g_moss_412.jpg Ricoh this.

I bucked up for Junior Ted's ticket and now I find out her boyfriend, Junior Shot, is blowing off the game? Surely an appearance at the tailgate is in order, at the least!

I'm sure the Rays are sick of hearing about the Yankees. They come to town for spring training and the papers highlight them more than the hometown team. Madden looks like one of the Hanson Brothers. Old time baseball!

Two points here, a point there, a half a point to some other guy. Maximum points per game, per player? Gimme a poll with three names to choose from and I'm in. If I'm drinking Schaefer after the game, I don't want to try to be analytical.

A lot of pot luck goes on near that water. Unless you're Mark Corey, then it's not-so-luck. Depending on the NY water taxi schedule from Manhattan, we may try to join up after a booze cruise.

He's this year's Endy Chavez, if you know what I'm sayin.

He attended games at Forbes Field.

Maybe bigger than the picnic.

We're in upper box, 38. More interested in the tailgate and pre-game festivities. The game is just incidental.

I'm in the upper boxes, right field. Tried to get a big block of 8 but found 3 together for me and my peeps.

Single game tix go on sale at 9 am on Sunday. My Firefox will be fully loaded. Anyone planning to see the Mets in Pittsburgh this year?

I get a kick out of the glass-enclosed fishbowl smoking areas in airports. You don't even need to light up in those rooms to get a nicotine fix.

NYU used MSG a few years ago (I recall because Christy Turlington graduated in '99 or '00 and she had trouble getting a bodyguard into the arena). Was that a winter commencement or was MSG used for inclement weather?

It looks like this is still on... Sox, Met fans irked about grad spot For Red Sox fans, it's your worst nightmare: Front and center in Yankee Stadium receiving your diploma. Is this hell? NYU Red Sox fans say yes - and it's a reality. It has been a month since NYU announced its decision to hold this year's commencement at Yankee Stadium, home of what Red Sox and Mets fans consider the Evil Empire. Usually held in Washington Square Park, the ceremony was moved due to renovations. "If that happens to me, I will cry," said CAS junior and lifelong Sox fan Rachel Chapman. "Graduation is such a community thing, and when you put it in a sports stadium, you're including another community." But depending on the baseball game schedule, the 2009 graduation could be moved to Citi Field, the new home of the Mets, set to open in April 2009. If the class of 2009 has their commencement in Yankee Stadium, however, there is a chance it could be in the new Yankee Stadium, also opening in April 2009. "I would rather graduate somewhere that's more neutral, because I've always kind of thought of graduation as a momentous, happy occasion, and I wouldn't really want to associate it with the Yankees," said CAS junior and Mets fan Francesca Basile. Some students believe feelings of community are not limited to a graduation in Washington Square Park, and that Yankee Stadium qualifies as a uniquely New York experience that makes its selection as the 2008 graduation setting entirely appropriate. "NYU is supposed to be a university that is 'in and of the city,' not a university that is in and of Washington Square Park," said CAS junior Alex Hogan, a Mets fan. "I hate the Yanks, but Yankee Stadium is a landmark and Shea isn't." CAS junior Carla Benton disagreed. Benton, though not a baseball fan, would prefer that graduation take place in a more familiar, Manhattan-based setting. "People are going to be coming from all over to see their family and friends graduate from a school in Manhattan," she said. "For that graduation to not be in Manhattan is a little ridiculous." Some fans are indifferent, as long as the Yankee element is kept to a minimum. CAS junior Caitlin Perry, a Red Sox fan from Vermont, said she is fairly neutral, explaining that "as long as there's not Yankee paraphernalia in our pictures, then it's fine." But for Yankee fans, this is a dream. "I'm totally freaking out!" said lifelong Yankees fan Ally Sacks, a Tisch senior. "I was like 'they couldn't have picked a better place.'" Kate Thuma is campus news editor. E-mail her at campus@nyunews.com