Scoreboard: Yankee Stadium
No, my blog isn’t limited strictly to customer service rants these days.
On Thursday, I made the run up to Yankee Stadium for the Yankees’ day game against the White Sox, making it my 11th major league stadium. I’m no Yankees fan, but the place is an integral part of baseball history, and it’ll be gone at the end of 2008. This is the time to see it, and so I caught jetBlue up and Amtrak back.
- Alarm 0400, Josh 0
- Dunkin Donuts IAD $4, Josh 2 (donuts? OK. $1.69 for a half-pint of orange juice, not so much)
- jetBlue 1300, airlines that don’t provide DirecTV and respectable legroom 0
- Port Authority $5, Long Island Rail Road $7, subway $7, Josh’s transit pass collection 2 (AirTrain and LIRR sell a combined ticket)
- Bottled waters 5, high temperature 94, Josh 0
- Central Park chillout 45, Josh ++
- Josh 4, NYC subway confusion 2 (only a couple of missteps, neither costing more than 5 minutes)
- Stan’s Sports World $7, travel bags safely checked 1
- Stadium collections: MLB 11, NHL 8, college football 10 (regularly-scheduled)
- Tradition 5, modern accommodations 2 (Hammond organ++)
- White Sox 8, Yankees 0 (middle 2nd)
- White Sox 8, Yankees 8 (end 2nd)
- White Sox 13, Yankees 9 (final)
- Penn Station KMart $16, non-foul shirt and deodorant for the ride home priceless
- New Jersey 40, Amtrak schedule 0 (darn you)
- bedtime 0000, Josh’s day 20 hours