6/16/08 at Coors Field
The day started with five hours of sleep and a delayed flight from New York City to Denver. My friend Dan Sauvageau (who has caught 36 home runs on a fly during games) picked me up at the airport and...
View Article8/21/08 at Shea Stadium
Jona (the G.F.) joined me for this game, and when we got off the No. 7 train at Shea Stadium, this is what we saw: Talk about timing! The (ugly) sign for Citi Field was in the process of being put up,...
View Article9/22/08 at Citizens Bank Park
On September 12th, I heard from a guy named Charlie Schroeder who produces a show on NPR called “Weekend America.” He’d heard an earlier in-studio interview I did and thought it might be cool to do one...
View Article9/24/08 at Citizens Bank Park
I knew this was going to be a good day when I bought a bottle of water at a 7-Eleven on the way to Philadelphia and got a 1917 penny in my change: It also didn’t hurt that my girlfriend Jona was with...
View Article5/11/09 at Citi Field
The worst thing about my dad is that he’s not *really* a baseball fan. He follows the sport by reading about it sporadically in The New York Times sports section, and he’ll watch a few games on TV here...
View Article5/12/09 at Citi Field
As a native New Yorker, I’ve been conditioned not to talk to strangers or even make eye contact with them, so when I got on the subway yesterday to go to Citi Field and heard some guy ask a question...
View Article9/23/09 at Citi Field
On September 6th, I had a Watch With Zack game with a 13-year-old Mets fan named Ross. Remember? He broke his one-game record that day by snagging five balls, and he promptly booked another game with...
View Article5/17/10 at Turner Field
This was my first game at Turner Field in ten years, and I was pretty excited: The crowd was going to be fairly small. The gates were going to open two and a half hours early. The configuration of the...
View Article5/19/10 at Turner Field
The day got off to a great start, and it had nothing to do with baseball: I saw my very first girlfriend for the first time in 14 years, and it wasn’t awkward at all. We met in the lobby of my hotel,...
View Article9/17/10 at Citi Field
I wasn’t too happy about paying $23 apiece for the cheapest seats in the stadium… …but money was the last thing on my mind when I ran inside at 4:40pm. Here I am with left field all to myself during...
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