Yanks fail to sweep Seattle

Last night, CC gave up 6 ER and while the Yankees scored 4 off of starter Jason Vargas—thanks, primarily, to Hideki Matsui—the team wasn’t able to break out against the Mariner bullpen. So, the winning streak comes to an end and the Yankees have to reboot against the Jays. Sure, it’s a tough loss because you had CC on the mound, however, sometimes even the best guys just don’t have it and on Thursday, that was the case for CC who could not seem to locate his pitches (his slider, in particular). It happens and they’ll try again tomorrow.

Anyway, I was at the game and experienced the new Yankee Stadium for the first time ever. Here’s my general evaluation—the place is nice and it looks good. With that said, it also seems somewhat devoid of personality. Maybe it’ll take a while for that to develop, but, it feels emotionally hollow to me. Also, the food was pretty terrible yet was remarkably expensive. For example, I took my younger brother and we got to the ballpark at around 5:30. At that point, we got individual orders of cheese fries (2 cups), plus a water and a beer. That cost about $35 dollars and the cheese fries weren’t very good. A similar experience occured later on when we got some more food (expensive and not very tasty).

Still, our tickets were on the field level by the RF foul pole—altogether they cost about $200—so the experience itself was pretty cool, as we got to watch a bit of batting practice. At the end of the day it’s definitely a nice place, it just needs that human element (it feels like a random concrete structure with Yankee emblems plastered all over it).