KHH Event Recaps

On this page, you will find a list of all the events that the KHH bloggers have gone to and written recaps for. To give our readers a sample, there is a short quote from each recap.

1. Minnesota Timberwolves vs. New Jersey Nets

Bad basketball cannot get any better than it was tonight.

2. Charlotte Bobcats vs. New Jersey Nets

In the first quarter, The Cracker air-balled an open corner jumper.

3. Colorado Rockies vs. New York Mets: Doubleheader

The play of the day goes to a combo of Jason Giambi, Franklin Morales, and Willie Harris.

4. Houston Astros vs. New York Mets: Game Two

Whenever a run is scored on a wild pitch, you know the game is a joke.

5. Houston Astros vs. New York Mets: Game Three

In the 7th, Nickeas went out to the mound to cool Cappuccino after he allowed a few base runners.

6. San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets: Game One

Every few innings, they had Chin-Lung Hu come onto the big screen and say something in Chinese. It was extremely random.

7. San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets: Game Two

In the 8th inning, we decided to go to Section 401.

8. Kansas City Royals vs. New York Yankees

Chris Getz refused to strike out.

9. Chivas USA vs. New York Red Bulls

We had a very pleasant and enjoyable time in our first ever trip to RedBull Arena.

10. Washington Nationals vs. New York Mets
11. New York Mets vs. New York Yankees

After we saw R.A. Dickey lose at home to the Rockies, Astros, and Giants, he was able to win on the road at Yankee Stadium. Do you get what I mean by unpredictable?

12. Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees

There was also a 4 pitch walk with the bases loaded to Eric Thames (who?) which only exaggerated the disaster.

13. Colorado Rapids vs. New York Red Bulls

We sat in the Red Bulls Supporters section in this game. These are the crazy fans that stand the entire game and are mostly drunk.

14. Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Mets

The disaster begun fairly unassumingly.

15. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Game One

When we arrived to batting practice, the Pirates were practicing.

16. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Game Two

We were sitting in foul territory in right field, which is home to Matt Diaz of the Pirates.

17. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Game Four
18. Columbus Crew vs. New York Red Bulls

Players were moving around like zombies.

19. Greece National Soccer Team vs. Ecuador National Soccer Team
20. New Jersey Jackals vs. Newark Bears

They said that the Meatball of the Game would hit a home run. They were wrong.

21. New England Revolution vs. New York Red Bulls
22. Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees

This game was never in question for the Yankees.

23. Keeping up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 1

After having some scripted talk about nothing, Kris burped right in Kim’s face.

24. CONCACAF Gold Cup: Grenada vs. Guatemala & Honduras vs. Jamaica
25. Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees

Carlos Carrasco looked like an ace tonight.

26. Chesapeake Bayhawks vs. Long Island Lizards

That shows true dedication, to see a Major League Lacrosse game despite having over 5 hours of traveling.

27. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. New York Mets: Game One

The Angels had two errors tonight, and they were both on Jason Bay ground balls in the infield. In fact, they were both overthrows of first base that went into the crowd.

28. Keeping up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 2

The highlight of the show was Kris Humphries’ short appearance.

29. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. New York Mets: Game Two

The Mets won this game, 6-1, because they got to Dan Haren early and often

30. NBA Draft

The 2nd round escalated to an even bigger joke when a guy started blowing a vuvuzela.

31. Keeping up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 3

In tonight’s show, Kim gets an X-ray of her butt, Kourtney and Khloe make fun of her, and their mom fake cries.

That’s all for now! I will update this page as we continue to attend events.

Yankees-Indians Recap

Yankees vs. Indians

Today, I spent the afternoon with my dad at rainy Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees dominate a pretty bad Indians team 4-0. We sat in the most expensive Legends Suites at the Stadium as part of my reward for graduating high school. This was the first time that we have sat in these seats. Usually when I go with my dad, we sit in Championship suites, which are a little closer to the outfield. Today, our seats were second row in the infield close to the Yankee dugout. Keep in mind that this was far from a KHH event because it was not a joke at all. Most KHH events are just stupid and unimportant games, like Nets-Timberwolves, Mets-Astros, or Newark Bears. However, this was a sold out game at Yankee Stadium that actually impacted the playoff race somewhat. Also, we paid waaay too much for our tickets for this to be a KHH event. This article will mostly be about the Legend Suites experience and less about the actual game, but I will talk a little bit about the game first.

Yankees Magazine (Russel Martin did not play)

The Yankees just showed that they were the better team today. The did not allow the Indians to score a run and they scored four times themselves. The scoring started in the 4th inning with an A-Rod line drive home run to left center. Then in the 6th, Curtis Granderson doubled the Yankees lead with a solo shot himself to the middle deck in right field. The Yankees scored again in the 7th off an error by Shin-Soo Choo (A.K.A. The Shoe) and then again the 8th on a homer by Mark Teixeira. This game was never in question for the Yankees. For the Indians, offense was very limited. Their only real scoring opportunity came in the 8th inning when they had 2 runners on base with nobody out, but they were unable to capitalize. Boone Logan shut them down in the 9th inning to finish the game off for New York. The pitching in this game was very impressive, especially from the Yankees point of view. Bartolo Colon had possibly his best game of the season, pitching 6.2 innings, allowing 2 hits and striking out 6, before leaving the game with a pulled hamstring. It is not surprising that he got injured. He is legitimately fat. Actually. See pictures of him below. For Cleveland, Mitch Talbot pitched pretty well before being thrown out of the game in the 6th inning for hitting Alex Rodriguez. The Indians hit Mark Teixeira last night and he was not happy about it, and the umpires did not hesitate to throw out Talbot today after hitting A-Rod. He was lying in the mud in pain after getting hit for a few minutes, but he stayed in the game. See pictures of him limping to first base below:

Bartolo Colon and Francisco Cervelli

Bartolo Colon After His Injury

A-Rod After Getting Hit By a Pitch

Now I will talk about the jokes of the game, the Legends Suite experience, and other things:

• First of all, the weather needs to be mentioned in this game recap. There was terrible weather the entire game. And I mean 100% of the time. It was not raining, but it was misting and getting everything wet. It was pretty gross and it never stopped at all. It was windy too. There is a possibility that the Yankees will give us free tickets to another game after making us sit through this one.
• As we arrived to the Stadium today, we realized that it was Yankee Stadium Hat Day. This was a very wonderful surprise. See pictures of the Yankees hat below:

Yankee Stadium Hat Day

Presented By Hess

• The thing that I most need to mention from this game is the food. There was tons of food, and it was all included with the purchase of a ticket. And it was all so fancy. Unfortunately, I am probably the pickiest eater in the world so I did not enjoy most of the food. I did not have breakfast this morning because I wanted to save room for all the food at Yankee Stadium. Now, it is almost 8:00 PM and I will certainly not have dinner. I will now list everything I ate: 2 bowls of pasta, 2 Famiglia pizzas, 1 Sierra Your Computadora Mist (in honor of Raphi), 1 blue Gatorade, 1 small bag of peanuts, 2 chocolate covered strawberries, 2 small pieces of cake, 1 cookie, and I took 2 large boxes of M&M’s for later. Here are pictures of my food:

Chocolate Covered Strawberry

My Pasta

Dessert

Famiglia Pizza and Sierra Your Computadora Mist

Legends Suites Peanuts

• Here are more pictures of fancy food and the overall Legends Suite experience:

The wristband that you need for the Legend Suites

The wristband that you need for the Legend Suites

Fancy Seafood

Food

Food

Food

Our Table

Comfy Seats

Championship Suites Lounge

An Assortment of Candies

So Many Peanuts

Alcohol Cabinet

Pepsi Max Making Its Appearance

• We got to this game very early to have a meal before the game, so after our meal we got to watch the Yankees warm up up close. Here are some pictures from their warm up:

Brett Gardner

Gardner and Granderson

Jeter and Cano

Robinson Cano

Granderson Stretching

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

The Yankee's Carmelo

 

 

Gardner and Granderson

Alex Rodriguez

•  About half way through the game, we decided to move closer to home plate. We were about 5 rows up from the Yankees on deck circle. They were really great seats. Here are some pictures of the game from those seats. Also, there are some pictures of a fan favorite here at KHH, The Shoe. He made an error today that allowed a run to score. Classic. The Indians made 3 errors total.

The Shoe

Cano On Deck

Nick Swisher

Jorge Posada

Brett Gardner

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

Francisco Cervelli at the Plate

Curtis Granderson

Mark Teixeira

Alex Rodriguez

Mark Teixeira

Vinnie Pestano of the Indians. He was kind of a joke.

The Shoe at the Plate

The Shoe

CC Sabathia After the Win

Yankees Heading Back to the Dugout

AJ Burnett

Mark Teixeira Interview

Mariano Rivera

Francisco Cervelli

There were not a whole lot of jokes from this game and because of this, it was not really a KHH event. However, the next KHH event will be tomorrow night as we have a combined viewing party of Game 6 of the NBA Finals and Keeping Up with the Humphries’s. It should be a jolly good time and all are invited.

 

Mets-Phillies Recap

Let's Go Mets!

This might have been my favorite Mets game of the year so far. One reason this is is because it felt like a real baseball game and not just Mets terribleness. First of all, the weather was good for the first time in a very long time. It was neither pouring rain, freezing cold, or snowing. Even Section 401 was somewhat full. Because of the weather, people actually showed up to this game. In fact, there were very few seats (unless you wanted to sit in the upper deck in left field, but more on that later). I would say that about 25% of the fans attending the game were Phillies fans. And why shouldn’t they come up to New York for a weekend series? It is a 2 hour trip by train and they get to see their team for cheaper than they would in Philadelphia. And their team has a better chance of winning because they are playing the Mets. The tickets for this game were very expensive on Stubhub because of all the fans, but luckily I chose this game as my free tickets for a rain out earlier in the year and these were our best seats at a baseball game in a while.

Now on to the actual game. The Phillies won 5-2 with Cole Hamels picking up the win to improve to 7-2, Mike O’Connor very deservedly getting the loss, and Ryan Madson securing the save. This game was a Mets bullpen catastrophe on every level after the starter, Mike Pelfrey pitched a beautiful game for the Mets. The disaster begun fairly unassumingly. After a pretty unwatchable and boring game, the Phillies had 2 outs in the 8th inning and nobody on base. Pelfrey was still on the mound and the Mets held a 2-1 lead. Unfortunately for Mike, he gave up a single to Jimmy Rollins and was pulled from the game. He received a huge standing ovation as he exited and this will probably cause him to pitch terribly in his next game because he will be overconfident. Anyway, enter Mike O’Connor. After allowing Rollins to steal second, Chase Utley hit a single to left. Keep in mind that the only reason O’Connor was brought into the game was to get a lefty, Utley, out, and he gave him a game-tying hit. He will probably be sent back down to the minors after this performance. Enter Jason Isringhausen. Utley attempts to steal second and Ronny Paulino’s throw sails into center field. Utley is now at third and there are still two outs. Issy (or should I say Sissy) then walks Placido Polanco and leaves the game without recording an out. Enter Tim Byrdak. He comes in as the lefty specialist to get Ryan Howard out and keep the game tied at 2. However, Howard doubles down the right field line and 2 runs score. In the 9th inning, Dale Thayer (who made his Mets debut) gave up 1 more run and the Mets were officially out of the game. They did absolutely nothing in the bottom of the 9th against Ryan Madson. One of the reasons that this was my favorite game so far this season is that this is such a typical Mets-Phillies game. This is exactly what I expected. I thought the Mets would take a lead, but of course disappoint the fans in the end like usual. They did the exact same thing yesterday as well. I don’t know how die-hard Mets fans are able to survive this. Even though I try to root for them, I can’t get myself to do it. They are just too terrible.

Dale Thayer. He is now apparently a reliever for the Mets.

Now on to the jokes from the game:

• As we arrived at Shea, we realized that Pepsi Max was unfortunately back, and they were back with a vengeance. There was tons of Pepsi Max stuff outside the stadium including an annoying DJ yelling at everyone. There were also huge bottles of Pepsi Max looming over everyone and girls with free samples of Pepsi Max. It was disgusting and horrifying. I refused the temptation to participate in the devilish activities before the game, but after the game I took a free can of Pepsi Max as I was leaving the stadium. I had about 4 sips of it before throwing it out in a subway garbage can. It was as bad as I thought it would be if not worse. However, it probably gave me the caffeine to be writing this article right now. As we were walking up the staircase to the subway, the stairs were littered with unopened and one-sip-taken-out-of Pepsi Max cans. It was terrifying. I should have knocked one of them over by accident and then the Pepsi Max would drip down the stairs grossing everyone out. It would have been quite funny. Also, after wearing my Mets throw-away shirt tonight to the game, I realized that I am a walking advertisement for Pepsi Max because it has an advertisement on the back. Maybe I should just cross it out with a black marker. Any better suggestions? See Pepsi Max Pictures below:

Pepsi Max Stand

Pepsi Max Bottle

• As we entered Citi Field, the Mets gave us free “Tote Bags”. It is really just a bag with a belt around it and it looks pretty feminine. It also has an advertisement for Harrah’s Casino. We took our bags into the stadium with us and used them in various ways. I will talk more about these Tote Bags later on. See pictures below:

Mets Tote Bags

Mets Tote Bags With Peanuts

Mets Tote Bag

Mets Tote Bag With Peanuts

Mets Tote Bags with Peanuts

Mets Logo On Mets Tote Bag

Mets Tote Bag Belt

Peanuts Inside Mets Tote Bag

• As we arrived we noticed the annoying foam finger guy. People actually bought stuff for him today. They could have spent that money on a lower level Nets ticket! Idiots…

Annoying Foam Finger Guy (people actually buy these things)

• As part of rewarding their season ticket holders, the Mets chose some season ticket holders to go on the field before the game. It was mostly just old people. Each person went to a position and when the Mets went onto the field they shook hands with the Met who played their position. It was kind of a joke. See pictures below:

Random Season Ticket Holders on Field

Random Season Ticket Holder on Field

• After arriving to our very good seats, we noticed the upper deck in left field. In every game we have went to so far this season, nobody has sat in those seats. They are always empty. The Mets just never sell those tickets. This was for the most part the same tonight except for one section. I assume that there must have been a birthday party or something like that in this one section because there were almost no people in the other sections. It is pretty hilarious. Also, during the 7th inning stretch, there was one guy sitting under the out-of-town scoreboard in the left field upper deck and he was standing up and dancing and wanting to get a shirt. Good luck, because you will need a miracle. See pictures of the left field upper deck below:

Shea Stadium Upper Deck Left Field

Shea Stadium Upper Deck Left Field

• After the 1st inning we decided to break out the peanuts. They were as disgusting as we remember them being (we haven’t been to Shea in a few weeks) but luckily there were less than there are at Yankee Stadium. There weren’t many perfume nuts, however I did get one that was pitch black after being burned in an oven for probably 5 days. It was super perfumy. After we opened the peanuts, I thought of a great idea. We will put all of our peanut shells in Raphi’s Tote Bag and then Raphi will have to decide what to do with all of them. We carefully positioned the bag under Petro/GadZoom’s dunking bucket (AKA cup holder) so that when we dunked or shot, the peanuts would go into the bag. I suggested dumping them all in one urinal in the Citi Field bathroom but Raphi was too scared. He still has yet to make a decision and still has possession of all of the peanuts. See peanut pictures below:

Peanut Shells in Tote Bag Close Up

Peanut Shells in Tote Bag Close Up With Peanut Bag

Peanut Shells in Tote Bag with Peanut Bag

Peanut Shell in Tote Bag

• In the 4th inning, Mike Pelfrey had a balk with runners on 1st and 2nd. Unfortunately neither runner scored which would have made this a lot funnier. Still, a balk is a balk, and it made this game a little more of a joke.
• In the 6th inning, a fan won 6 months of Tide laundry detergent courtesy of BJ’s. Congratulations. This was a terrible Mets giveaway and I am thankful that I did not win it. Have fun washing clothes for 6 months. Is that a reward or a punishment? Probably punishment.
• Raphi claims that he got bit by a Shea mosquito during the game. Mosquitos usually love my blood but I have not yet noticed any bites. I’m glad Citi Field mosquitos like Raphi more than me.
• After the 7th inning, I noted that the Mets defense had been surprisingly good tonight. That is, until the 7th inning. In the 8th inning it was disgustingly bad including Ronny Paulino’s awful throwing error.
• After 2 outs were recorded in the 8th inning, it took the Mets 4 pitchers to get out of the inning. The foursome are Mike Pelfrey, Mike O’Connor, Jason Isringhausen, and Tim Byrdak. All those terrible pitchers just to get one out.
• During the later innings of the game, Raphi and I moved up successfully 3 or 4 times. I was pretty impressed with it and was not expecting it. I guess the reason we were able to do this was because the Mets fans were so disgusted with their team after the top of the 8th inning. They just wanted to leave Shea immediately. That was good news for us, and I got some nice close-up shots at the end of the game. You will see the pictures from the game towards the end of this article.
• After the game was over and the Phillies won, we were one of the first ones to get to the Phillies dugout. We saw all the players leave and we did not get any balls. However, the pitching coach and the people from the bullpen had yet to leave. We waited for them and I believe the Phillies pitching coach threw a ball in our direction. I had no shot at it, but Raphi had a small chance. He reached out as far as he could and knocked the ball closer to him and made an impressive grab, stealing it away from some Phillies fans. I was impressed to say the least. I didn’t know he had it in him. After getting the ball, he then put it into his peanut bag to make it even more disgusting. It now smells like peanuts. Ew. See picture below:

Peanut Shells in Tote Bag with Baseball!

Here are some pictures from the actual game:

Jimmy Rollins

Placido Polanco Stretching

Placido Polanco

 

Justin Turner

 

Jose Reyes

Carlos Ruiz

Philly Fielders

 

Justin Turner

Raphi's Favorite Ben Francisco

 

Ryan Madson

Our next KHH event will be on Monday, Memorial Day, as the Mets host the Pirates at Shea. We received these tickets for free for sitting through Mets-Nationals a few weeks ago and we picked up our tickets for this game today. It is sure to be a great one, and we will probably go to at least one more Mets-Pirates game in the series. That is all for now, but look out for a video of the announcement of the Mets starting lineup coming soon. Also, Mets-Nets comparisons will finish up tomorrow!

Yankees-Blue Jays Recap

Yankee Stadium

This was a pretty unexciting game with not much action happening. The Yankees lost 7-3 and dropped to 1-2 with the KHH bloggers in attendance. To make it worse, they have played the Royals, Mets, and Blue Jays when we went, so they have no excuse not to be 3-0. Here are some of my notes from the game:

• Again, we decided to buy peanuts outside the stadium before the game, but we were not going to make the same mistake as last time and buy a huge bag for $2. Instead, we bought 2 smaller bags, which had salt this time, for $3 each, which doesn’t make any sense. It was still less than the big bag, but also too much for us. Next time, we will only buy one small bag.
• When we arrived to our lower level, behind first base seats, we immediately noticed the padded chairs. Even though we were 20 rows up, at Shea none of the chairs are padded. It makes a huge difference and it shows how cheap the Mets are (or how rich the Yankees are). Anyway, it made the game much more enjoyable.
• In the third inning as I was eating my peanuts, one of the shells jumped up and went into the kid’s hair in front of us. I didn’t know what to do because it would be awkward no matter what. If I flicked it out of his hair, he would have noticed, if I told him, that would have been awkward, and if I didn’t do anything his dad might see it and know it was me. Luckily, it innocently fell out a few innings later and nobody noticed. It provided the game with some excitement while it lasted.
• As we bought the magnificent Yankee Stadium lemonade again, Raphi tried to pay with a credit card and the lemonade lady was mad at him. That’s why you need to carry around cash.
• The 6th inning was the disaster inning for Bartolo Colon and the Yankees. The Blue Jays scored 5 runs, and one of the reasons why was 2 intentional walks by Colon. I’m not a big fan of intentional walks, especially in the situations that happened tonight. There was also a 4 pitch walk with the bases loaded to Eric Thames (who?) which only exaggerated the disaster.
• In the bottom of the 6th, the Yankees threatened to make a comeback, but just as this was happening, Robinson Cano shot a sure-to-be double play ball to the shortstop, Yunel Escobar. Instead of turning the double play, Escobar tried to roll the ball to second base to get an out and the runner was called safe and an error was given. It was a pretty hilarious play, but it didn’t matter in the end.
• Curtis Granderson had a pretty interesting game for the Yankees. In 5 plate appearances, he struck out twice and walked 3 times, never putting the ball in play. He also scored all 3 of the Yankee runs after walking to start the inning. The Yankees really needed other contributors besides him tonight. Notably, Posada was awful. In all of his at-bats he didn’t come close to getting a hit. He is batting significantly under .200 and I sense that the end of his Yankee career is near.
• In the top of the 1st, Jose Bautista hit another home run to pad his major league lead in the category. Another category he leads is on base percentage with a whopping over .500 percentage. We were able to see why as he was intentionally walked twice in the game. The Blue Jays pretty much have no hitters besides him, so teams can just walk him whenever they want. Unfortunately, it came back to hurt the Yankees in this game.

Now for some pictures:

The Yankee Stadium lower level menu. Very fancy, especially compared to Shea.

A-Rod at First

Runners on the Corners

The YMCA Crew

Our next event will be on Wednesday as the Red Bulls take on the Colorado Rapids in Harrison. Come join us at RedBull Arena! Even Sam will be there! Also, come out to Arts Night tomorrow at Heschel! Just kidding, I’ll be shocked if anyone actually shows up.

Yankees-Mets Recap

As Raphi put it, this was our first baseball surprise of the year and it was not predictable at all. The Mets won 2-1 in the Bronx to improve to a somewhat respectable 3-5 when we have attended their games and more importantly for them, 22-22 on the year. That is surprising enough. The Yankees fell to 1-1 in front of the KHH bloggers and 23-20 overall. After we saw R.A. Dickey lose at home to the Rockies, Astros, and Giants, he was able to win on the road at Yankee Stadium. Do you get what I mean by unpredictable? Freddy Garcia pitched well, but still got hit with the loss. There were plenty more surprises from this game but I will start from the beginning.

The first surprise of the night was that Raphi was less than 20 minutes late. This gave us enough time to go buy pizza before arriving at the Stadium. I had 2 slices and Raphi had 0, probably a very wise choice. As we were walking to the Stadium, we passed someone selling bags of peanuts on the street. There was one that was salted for $3 and one that was unsalted for $2. The cheaper one was also the much bigger one, so we thought, why not? and bought the unsalted peanuts and took them into the stadium with us. I don’t like to start eating them until at least the end of the first inning, especially because I had just eaten 2 slices of pizza, but we started eating them at 7:25, just as the 2nd inning was beginning. Before long, we had realized what we had just gotten ourselves into. This bag was ginormous, much bigger than any other peanut bag that we had had prior (and some of those were too big to handle). By the time we were a third of the way done, I was already completely sick of them and wanted to throw the rest away, but I could not disrespect the peanuts like that. We had to finish them. During the 7th inning stretch, I looked down at the peanuts and thought that I was finally almost done. The problem was that I felt that way until the top of the 9th inning when we finally finished them. We had been eating them nonstop and we only finished them at 9:45. We had been constantly eating them the whole game and it took us almost two and a half hours to finish them. Raphi deserves a lot of credit for finishing the peanuts, but I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame of peanut eaters for my performance tonight. Here are some pictures to give you an idea of how many peanuts we ate:

Full Bag of Peanuts

Empty Bag of Peanuts

Ripped Peanuts

What a Catastrophe

So Gross

Even though we ate all those peanuts, there was still more food that we ate. As I mentioned before, I ate 2 slices of pizza before the game. Raphi also bought a hot dog midway through the game to get the peanut taste out of his mouth. He should enter a Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest. He can compete against Mark Sanchez (it was against the Raiders, by the way).

Also from Mark Sanchez (we need some football in this blog):

Once the game started and I had already eaten many of the peanuts, my mouth longed for something other than the peanuty badness. I decided to go search for a drink. The first drink I saw that didn’t have a huge line and wasn’t water was a lemonade stand. I didn’t really want this, but I had no other options. And it looked bad too. It looked like they just put a lemon in a cup of water. But I was very wrong. It was delicious; maybe the best lemonade I had ever drank. It was so good that Raphi also got one later. Here’s a picture of our almost finished lemonades:

Delicious Lemonades

We have calculated that we must have eaten about 3,500 calories combined tonight. That is 1,750 each, almost the amount that you are supposed to have for a day in 4 hours. When I got home I looked at my stomach in the mirror and it looked bigger than it was before, I’m not lying. And I feel like I have to throw up. Enough about food; on to the game.

The Mets lineup was pretty gross tonight. The 5-9 hitters were Fernando Martinez (also the DH, what a joke), Justin Turner, Josh Thole, Jason Pridie, and Ruben Tejada. How that team beats the Yankees, I have no idea. Justin Turner had a bunt single in his first at-bat and had 3 hits in the game. He also broke a Mets record for the most consecutive games with an RBI for a rookie with 6. Wow, Justin Turner now holds a Mets record. Another surprise was that the only run the Yankees scored the whole game came on a Mark Teixeira first row home run in the third inning. Their offense was pretty disgusting to say the least. Yet another surprise: the Mets bullpen was shockingly good. If you remember my article from a few days ago, Mike O’Connor pitched a great 7th inning and Izzy and K-Rod shut the door for the Yankees. However, Joba and David Robertson pitched well out of the Yankees’ pen.

After attending this game, I feel the need to rant at Mets fans. First, I want to take you back to a few days ago on Wednesday. There must have been less than 1,000 people at Shea to watch the Mets take on the Nationals, and the fans that were there were very unspirited. There was not much cheering. Heck, I was able to distract Gorzy to make a terrible pick off throw. Now fast forward to today. There were probably at least 10,000 Mets fans at Yankee Stadium. And most of them didn’t honestly care about the Mets. They just want the Yankees to lose. They want to prove to all the Yankees fans that their team is bad because they lost to the lowly Mets. They don’t even think that their own team is good. They only want to annoy Yankees fans. They know that their team has no chance at the playoffs, so they might as well try to ruin the Yankees’ chance. That is all. Now it’s time for a few more pictures:

Random Fernando Martinez Stat

Yankees

The Field

Our Seats

K-Rod

In other baseball news, after the Nationals were blanked 2 nights in a row against the Mets, they scored 17 tonight against the Orioles. Typical. Blue Jays pitcher Jo-Jo Reyes pitched 7 innings and had a 2-0 lead, but the bullpen could not hang on and the Blue Jays still lost. Of note is that Jo-Jo Reyes has not gotten a win in 26 straight starts. That’s 26. Reyes is 5-18 for his career in 45 starts and his last win came on June 13, 2008 against you guessed it, the Mets (just kidding, the Angels, but I wish it was the Mets). Did you think that Jason Giambi’s power streak was just good for one game? Well it wasn’t. The Giambino went yard again tonight in Milwaukee. Keep it going big fella!

Mets-Nationals Recap

Throw Away Shirts

This game was an absolute joke. It was also my favorite Mets game that we went to. It was pouring for much of the game and there were about 10 people in the crowd. We stayed for the entire game without leaving for food or anything. It was my favorite game because nothing in the game was even close to resembling something interesting. The Mets won 3-0 and there were almost no good plays. Surprisingly, there was only 1 error in the mud, but it was a hilarious error and I will get to that later. I think that Yahoo sums up the game very well: “The announced attendance Wednesday was 24,527, but nearly all the seats were empty and hecklers could be heard from the stands.” That’s me! I will begin with my journey to Shea.

Even though we planned on meeting at 6:20, Raphi was late as usual. By 6:40, I had enough of waiting for him and decided to just leave without him on the 6:43 1 train from 79th street. Of course, as I was on the 7 train to Queens, I got a call from Raphi that he was finally on his way and he met me at the game. The entire way there the following is what I did:

Peggle Train

I arrived in the beginning of the 1st inning and was delighted to see Tom Gorzelanny on the mound. The Mets scored once in the first and twice in the sixth, and that was all the scoring of the game. In the second inning, Scott Hairston had one of the best at-bats ever against Gorzy. It went like this: pitch 1: swinging for the fences, pitch 2: swinging for the fences, pitch 3: strike out looking. He later hit a double in the game (I was shocked). One of the great matchups in this game was the battle of the Hairstons. It was almost as good as the battle of the Grahams. Scott actually went 2/3 and Jerry had two walks for Washington. See some pictures of the threesome below (keep in mind that I took all pictures shown, however, I was only able to bring my camera out when it wasn’t pouring, which wasn’t very often):

Gorzy in the Rain

Jerry Hairston Jr.

Scott Hairston

Tom Gorzelanny

Gorzy and Mets 1st Base Coach Wilson

Gorzy and Mets 1st Base Coach Wilson

Ew

When Raphi finally arrived in the third inning, I thought that he would see at most 3 innings before the game got rained out, but somehow we were able to stay for the whole game. We ended up sitting in the first row of the section right behind first base. In the 4th inning (I think?) there was a runner on first for the Mets and Gorzy was concerned about him. Whenever he looked over I waved and yelled at him. I guess this is what Yahoo means by heckling. Anyway, he made a disgusting pickoff throw to first and the runner got to second. It was pretty hilarious. He just threw the ball into the dirt. Gorzy also had another terrible inning when he walked Ruben Tejada (who played in his first game of the season) on 4 pitches. After Ruben got a hit in his first at-bat of the season, he was batting 1.000 and I got a picture of it because it was a moment to remember.

Ruben Tejada

In the 5th or 6th inning, Raphi and I wanted to get peanuts, but we didn’t want to leave our seats because we probably wouldn’t be able to get them back again. Luckily, because we were sitting in the fancy section, they gave us menus and we ordered peanuts that were brought to us. See below:

The Citi Field Menu

Unfortunately they charged us an extra 25 cents and they made sure that the peanuts were extra perfumey. It was disgusting. Also, because of all the rain, I often needed to cover up my peanuts so that they would not get wet. I care about them too much than to let something so terrible happen to them. When it was not pouring, we decided to make the game even more of a joke by creating Shea Perfume Peanut castle, presented by Petro. This shows how much we truly disrespect Citi Field. I think the pictures speak for themselves:

Peanut Castle

Also, feel free to check out a few more pictures from the game (I know, I’m getting a little heavy on the pictures at this point):

Rainy Shea

Adam LaRoche

Reyes, LaRoche, and Wilson

Adam LaRoche

Reyes, LaRoche, and Wilson

Rain Crew

During the 7th inning stretch, as the rain was pouring down, I caught a t-shirt in the t-shirt toss. And it was an impressive catch too. I had a bag of peanuts in one hand and there were other people trying to reach in and steal it, but I refused to not get my first Mets shirt of the season. The shirt is pictured at the top of this article.

In the late innings of the game, the grounds crew was constantly working on the field in between innings. See the video below. It is a joke:

After K-Rod came in for the save and the Mets won for the second time in seven tries while we were in attendance, we took a 1 train journey home. Our hands were covered in wet peanut shells because they stick to your hands and are disgusting, but despite this, we had a peggle duel which featured one of Raphi’s best ever pyramid balls. It was impressive.

Looking ahead, our next major event will be the subway series this weekend. It will be at Yankee Stadium. We probably will not go due to the prices, but if I get a good deal, anything is possible (according to Kevin Garnett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjOy7fRzs0). Next week will be Yankees-Blue Jays at the Stadium also, which will be a possibility for us, but what I am really looking forward to is a week from today, we will see Red Bulls-Rapids from RedBulls Arena. I can’t wait. More coming soon.

Our First Trip to The Bronx is Tonight!

Raphi and I will journey on the 2 and 4 trains tonight for the first time as we make our first trip of the year to Yankee Stadium. The Yankees will be taking on the Royals and this is one reason why we will be attending. Another reason is the pitching matchup: Kyle Davies vs. Freddy Garcia. I am excited. Two terrible pitchers battling it out in the easiest park to hit a home run in the majors. If you think that Garcia isn’t that bad, well his ERA hasn’t been under 4 since 2005. He is frankly not very good. On the other hand, Davies currently is 1-4 with an ERA over 7. Expect many long balls tonight from both sides, but especially the Yankees. My prediction is Yankees 8, Kansas City 5.

Yankee Stadium

Why Do the Mets Hate Us?

It’s official. The Mets hate us. In games that we have went to this year, they are 1-5. Ok, ok, you can blame that on the fact that we have seen R.A. Dickey and Chris Capuano 3 times each so far, but still, they should be a lot better. To make it even worse, since the games we went to last week, they have been 3-0, beating the Giants once and the Dodgers twice. They even ended Andre Ethier’s 30 game hitting streak tonight. So why are they so bad when we go? And who are the real Mets? The ones we know, or the ones that we are seeing play now? They also have had a 5 game winning streak this year (https://kimhadhumps.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/out-of-the-blue-the-mets-have-won-five-games-in-a-row/). These Mets look like they can possibly even be a playoff team, but when we attend their games, they look worse than the Nationals and Pirates put together. The solution is for us to boycott the Mets until they prove to us who they truly are.

So I have a proposal. This may be very shocking to some and it may be very dangerous. Next week, the Kansas City Royals will be in town. At Yankee Stadium. Now, the Royals are a complete joke and they have been for the last 20 years, so there’s nothing to worry about with them (Jose Lima is their best player in the last 20 years). But the Yankees on the other hand, are not a joke and visiting Yankee Stadium would be going to new territory for us. We have never been to the stadium of a non-joke team. However, there will still be many joke aspects to the game. First of all, on stubhub, we can buy tickets for $2 for these games. Nobody wants to see the Royals. $5 will get us upper deck behind home plate, which is not a bad seat. Secondly, we still get to see the Royals even though they are playing the Yankees. Their ace is Luke Hochevar and their best hitter is Melky Cabrera (or at least my favorite hitter). Third of all, the Yankees are my favorite baseball team and I have not been to a game this year. I know it may be shocking but I think we should go to a Yankees-Royals game.

Yankee Stadium

Luke Hochevar