Annual Away game....New York City

Here comes our third annual away game trip. This year was at Yankee Stadium in New York City. We went there Friday morning...early in the morning. We drove over to the umps house and Uncle Bobby drove us into South Station for the train ride. Four hours later we pulled into Penn Station and off we were. The train ride was very smooth again. It goes by so fast. The ump and Jimmy took a break into the dining car to get some pizza and junkfood to kill some of the time. Of course Jimmy kept asking me what time it was and how much time we had left. He was impatient to get there. Who could blame him. Once we got there we found a great place to eat some New York style pizza. Nicks is the place to go. Two large pies....Jimmy ate most of them. I dont know where he puts it.
Once at the game, the ump had some chicks come sit next to him. I tried to get better pictures of them with him but it was kind of obvious.

Yankee Stadium was a magnificent place. We took a train over from the hotel and it let us off right across the street from the park. I suppose we should expect that but we dont after being so used to Fenway park and the nightmare it is to get in and out of there. The old Yankee stadium has been transformed into a sports complex and it looks great. I didnt get any pictures of it unfortunately...you would think i would.

We sat in the balcony area with a view of the Bronx zoo. Such a tired looking area it is with all those old, big buildings. I half expected to see J.J. and Thelma hanging out on the balcony.

Gonzalez right before his home run.

Nothing compares to Camden Yards but this place was very nice.

James and I enjoying the game. We had a great time the whole weekend.

We took in Ground Zero. This is the beginning one of the buildings of the Freedom tower complex. I could still feel a presence in the area. It was eery.

I dont know what the significance of this building is, it looks over the site where the Twin Towers had stood and I liked its look

We HAD intended to take the Ferry to the Statue of Liberty. The line was outrageous and Jimmy didnt want to wait. We could see the Statue from where we were at Battery Park. We had a great idea to rent some bikes for an hour or so. This turned into riding the bikes around the city for four hours. What a great time we had first riding along the Hudson River. At around West 78th street we turned into the bike lanes on the street (Eeeee gawd) and took a ride through Central Park. It was the way to go though. Very scary though riding along with some of the taxicabs. The only one that fell was me...and I did it twice.

Statue of Liberty from Battery Park

I believe this was E. 94th street on the upper East Side

I absolutely love New York City. The bike trail was so long. They have spent tons of money on having the bike routes around the city and it shows. The lanes were packed. I spent most of the time riding behind Jimmy giving him instructions on when to stop and what to look out for. He doesnt really have the luxury (or not) of growing up on a busy street so he lacks that type of street sense. He had to learn it in a hurry around this area. He did very very good at it though and kept his complaints to himself, if he had any.

I don't know the significance of this old Pier. It just looks kind of cool against the backdrop of the sky scrapers.

John Lennons old home.....The Dakota....this was where he got shot all those years ago...on December 8, 1980....as Eddie tells me.....a Monday Night Football game against Miami so he would know.

The tribute to Lennon in Central park...Apple records (again according to the ump)

Night two at Yankee Stadium..

Ump with the chicks...if you look to the bottom right we see some of the Yankee fans making faces....i didnt notice until now.

Jimmy took my camera for a bit and this was one of his better pictures. I kinda like it

In the ninth I went up to some cop behind the entrance to the good seats. The first one said he couldnt get my down in the front. The second one was the charm, He let us down for the last half inning to see the final outs.

After the game was complete Jimmy wanted to sit and just look around.....we did too.
By the way, we are 6-0 on away games!!!