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Now batting, Fred Durst

All the teams in MLB wore red hats. Now, I'm as patriotic as the next guy but the red lids were a little bit weird, and this is coming from a guy who went to a Yankee game last week with his dad who was wearing a maroon NY jersey.
The hats were part of MLB's Stars and Stripes collection. I guess the red hats could have been worse.

There's no truth to the rumor that A-Rod wore these spikes

Swinging in the rain

Check out how the UConn and South Florida baseball teams wasted time during a rain delay - a dance off.

New Stadium

Reports of my demise are premature. I just haven't blogged in a while because I'm lazy. Had a great birthday Thursday. Took my pops to the New Yankee Stadium to watch the Bombers whup the O's. Loved the new digs. Lots of room to walk around and pee, things that were severaly lacking in the old stadium. Still can't get over the fact that beers were $10 a pop (2 beers at NY=30 pack at package store), but what are you going to do. My dad is also going to the Stadium Saturday with my brother. He's going to have to take out a small loan. Anyway, two thumbs up from dad and I on the new Yankee Cathedral. Our original seats were upper, upper, upper deck, but I was able to persuade a security guard to let us move down. (Good story from my pops, who recalled slipping an usher a 5-spot in the 70s to move three of us behind home plate vs. the Red Sox. Guessing beers weren't $10 then). We had a great view for 5-plus innings before deciding to move down even further. The best thing about the Stadium is the fact that you can walk around and actually stand and watch the game behind the railing down low. There's a much friendlier atmosphere there, with staffers all over holding signs reading, "How can I help you."

Overall it was a great time and great place.

BP? How about AJ.

So the Yankees have finally decided to allow fans to move down to the outer reaches of the lower deck during batting practice so they can get a better view.
Fans with tickets for seats elsewhere in the new Yankee Stadium can move into outfield sections and corners of the field-level stands during batting practice, a change in policy the team said it made in reaction to fan desires.
Really, I don't know what the fans were complaining about. If they want to watch BP just go to the Stadium whenever A.J. Burnett pitches.

Sore subject

I think the Yankees need to change their name to the Crankees, because boy are they old.

Jorge's already on the DL.

Same with Matsui.

Jeter's even missing games with a sore right oblique. He's no spring chicken anymore.

I don't even know what an oblique is, but I'm sure mine's sore. For three straight days, I've taken the twins for a walk around the neighborhood.

No, not those twins.

Anyway, the walk brings me to Winding Ridge, which features beautiful homes and a nasty hill.

It's absolutley killing me.

The full walk takes me about an hour, which is about an hour too long for the boys to actually sit still. Every day I pack two juice cups, a bottle of water for myself and a box of Vanilla Wafers.

It's counterproductive. The boys drink their juice and all my water and I eat the cookies on the way back down the hill.

Manny being suspended

So, Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games by Major League Baseball on Thursday for failing a drug test. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Maybe he did it because chicks dig the long ball.

I'm sure he'll be grilled by MLB, maybe even Congress.

He's in elite company.

Could there be others to follow?

Seriously, the Yankee fan in me wants to feel good that someone from the Nation, or with ties to the Nation, finally got nabbed, but I don't. Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't believe that anyone's clean anymore. And I resent the amount of money they're getting paid. It's official, I am getting old.

I've long said that Vince McMahon should start a league, The XXXXL, which features nothing but athletes all hopped up on performance enhancing drugs.

I'm sure Afa and Sika would put up some serious power numbers.

But who would they get to manage them.