Sox Yanks!

I am a huge Red Sox fan.  No, I’m not an asshole from Boston, I’m a nice person from Boston who loves the Red Sox.  Anyway, I went to Yankees Stadium tonight for the first time to see the Sox Yanks game.  Here are ten fun facts about the experience:

1. Holy crap the place is huge
2. I was surprised how horrible the Yankees fans were.  They didn’t cheer once all game.  Someone sometimes tried to start one, and no one did it.  The loudspeaker would blare a round or two of a chant, then just stop.  The crowd didn’t continue.  They were silent between every pitch.  I was with a few other Sox fans; we barely even got heckled.  I was shocked.  I felt like we were the only real fans in the whole stadium for either team.  And then by the seventh inning, the place was basically empty.  What the hell is that?
3. A beer at Yankee Stadium is $9.50 plus tax
4. There is one and only one concession stand in the entire stadium that sells chicken and fries.  To get them, we waited in line for somewhere between 1.5 and 2 innings.  There was a TV behind the counter.
5. Jon Lester is amazing: complete game shutout with 2 walks, 5 hits, and 8 strikeouts.
6. Jason Giambi has both the best and the worst mustache in the Majors.  Let me rephrase that.  Jason Giambi has the best mustache in the Majors, and therefore has the worst facial hair in the Majors.  He looks like he should be on Ice Road Truckers.  They probably allow sterroids on that show, by the way. Just sayin.
7. In my section, a man stomped on people and chairs to get to the exit a few rows below him instead of going to the aisle.  One of these people was a woman who was seriously injured by it (he just left).  EMTs were called and she was taken out on a stretcher.  It actually looked like she could have been paralyzed.  I went in thinking I was going to be harmed somehow by being an obvious Sox fan and the only harm done was from one Yankees fan to another for being a huge asshole.
8. The graphics on the jumbotron there are easily the worst graphics on any baseball stadium screen I’ve ever seen.  This is maybe one of the most important aspects of the game.  Get it together, guys.
9. Similarly, the sound was all recorded, and it seemed like the loneliest man on earth was back there pressing a button and then giving up on it.  There wasn’t a single decent sound or song coming from those speakers all game, and I’m pretty sure there was no organ at all.  WHAT THE HELL IS A BASEBALL GAME WITH NO ORGAN?  Not to mention the National Anthem AND God Bless America were BOTH generic recordings.  THERE ARE PLENTY OF TALENTED SINGERS IN NEW YORK.  Again. It.  Together. You guys.  Get it.
10. In the sixth inning, my friend, Kabeer, very nicely smacked away a GIANT HUGE ENORMOUS bug off the back of the Sox fan in front of us.  I have been trying to figure out what kind of bug it was.  I think it was a GIANT HUGE ENORMOUS beetle of some sort.  It was at least 4 inches long and could fly.

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