Sunday, July 29, 2012

Saturday==>Fabulous? NOT!!!


Good morning to all of my loyal and faithful readers and followers. I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend out there in the hinterlands, wastelands and boondocks.

Well ... honestly, yesterday was anything but fabulous for Billi Pod for obvious reasons that most of you already know ... yes ... I mean yesterday’s dreary experience out at Yankee Stadium, The House That Greed And Ego Built, for game 2 of the YANKEES/BOSTON FUCKSOX series. The starting time was 4:05.

When I arrived at the stadium around 3:45 the tarp was on the infield and in a few minutes it began to rain and it was majorly nasty for the next hour and 45 minutes. It seemed as if time had actually stopped. Boring. Boring. Boring.

The rain finally stopped and the grounds crew did an awesome job in getting the field in condition to play and the first pitch was at 6:09, meaning a 2 hour and 4 minute rain-delay. Oh well ... I was there and it was time for baseball.

Our ace CC Sabathia was on the mound and he basically sucked, giving up 3 runs in the top of the lst inning. But, we true fans never lost faith in the ability of The Bronx Bombers to stage a comeback, and stage one we did, finally tying the score at 6-6 in the bottom on the 8th inning on a massive 2-run homer by Mark Teixeira off of his hated enemy Vicente Padilla.

You could actually feel the gloom and doom settle in on the F**Sox fans as our closer Rafael Soriano came in to pitch the top of the 9th. Then ... OMFG!! ...

Usually reliable centerfielder Curtis Granderson misplayed a fly ball into a triple that led to the go-ahead run and then a sacrifice fly brought in an insurance run. The Yankees went down meekly in the bottom of the 9th and we lost 8-6. OMFG!!

Needless-to-say Billi Pod was not in a happy mood when he finally got back to PHC at 9:45. Yes ... I know ... I know ... you can’t win them all and all of the usual clichés but this was a game that was ours to win and we simply blew it. Barf!!

This was my 23rd game of the 2012 season and the record is: 14 wins and 9 losses.

Oh well ... moving on ...

Today’s entertainment event is a Broadway show ...

3:00==>GORE VIDAL’S THE BEST MAN - “A play about power, ambition, political secrets, ruthlessness and the race for the presidency set at the national convention where two candidates are vying for their party's nomination.” (Broadway - discounted TDF ticket)

The all-star cast includes James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Cybill Shepherd, and John Stamos. I am finally getting to see this well-reviewed dramatic revival. It has a running time of 2:40 with two intermissions and it closes on September 9th. 

Then ... after the show I will meet up with a couple of my AA buddies (you know who you are) in the Upper Westside and we will watch the final game of the YANKEES/F**KSOX series at 8:00pm on ESPN. One of my buddies is an avid F**ksox fan so I hope we can add to his pain and misery over their dreadful season.

It will be Hiroki Kuroda (10-7) on the mound for the Yankees vs. Felix Doubront (10-5) for the F**ksox

So==>have a great rest of the weekend everyone!!

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>2.58  miles

GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!

Billi Pod
“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”


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