Day 3 – Opening Day Take 2

After opening day was rained out it has been rescheduled for Tue. Night so after some planning for my future road trips it was off to the ballpark hoping the rain would stay away. There was an occasional shower during the day. When I got to the ballpark the tarp was on the field, but luckily it wasn’t raining. With no rain I figured now it would be ok to make my way to Monument Park and get some pics. Its pretty impressive all the great players that played for NYY and now have their #’s retired. You read the plaques and it is just amazing the total accomplishments of these players. Now I’m not positive on this but I do believe they will be moving Monument Park to the new stadium, as they should. One of the things that makes the Yankees and Yankee stadium so special is the history, tradition and unparalleled success the franchise has had.

Just as game time approached the skies started to clear and opening day was finally here. Opening day very well may be my favourite day of the year and to get to spend it at Yankee Stadium knowing that there would never be another opening day at Yankee Stadium was something special. Boy does it feel good to be sitting at the ballpark and watching baseball again.

I gotta say, I would have thought the Yankees could have done better than only have some guy play the Canadian Anthem on the organ for opening day. Is it that hard to find someone to sing our anthem, apparently it maybe as the person who sang the American Anthem had a bit of a struggle with it.

I’ll try and keep my game talk in a separate blog in case there are those of you readers who only prefer to read one or the other.

I’m going to have to pick on Toronto fans a little bit here. One of the things I love to see is fans getting up on their feet at crucial points in the game. In Toronto about the only time the fans get up is when there are 2 outs and 2 strikes in the 9th inning. There is something to be said for 50,000+ fans on their feet cheering on their team hoping for that important out, or important run whether it be the 9th inning or the 5th.

So after the Jays took a tough loss, I made my way to Times Square looking for a place to eat. Low and behold I found myself a Papa Johns, the best pizza I’ve ever had. Ever since I first discovered it at a youth conference being held at Purdue University where we stayed in the residences and ate their food, which was pretty poor hence the ordering pizza, I’m always on the lookout for Papa Johns restaurants when I go to the states.