San Jose again

Last week it was a trip to San Jose for work. I flew out to Oakland Monday night, just after getting back from the NYC weekend. I stayed at Anthony and Maria's place so that I didn't have to stay in the boring hotel room in San Jose. Plus, there's the very wonderful bonus of seeing my friends, BBQ in the back yard, great beer at Cato's Ale house, and some fine Belgian beers at a new bar for us, The Trappist in downtown Oakland. Final bonus, no one was shot from our group in Oakland. Here I am with Maria enjoying a fine ale, and there's Bryan ingesting some sort of Mexican tapa. I think he enjoyed it. I had a little too much Sangria at this joint.

NYC Weekend to visit the stadiums

I traveled via Megabus from Boston to NY Penn Station on Friday night to see 2 games in the Big Apple, one at Shea Stadium and one at Yankee Stadium.

Saturday we headed to Queens to see the Meterosexuals Vs. the Hotlanta Braves. We were in luck, because of a rain out on Friday night, we got to see a double header, and a true one, not a Day/Night were they empty the stadium between games. We had great seats, right next to the field, but to see home plate, you had to look basically sideways! I hope the next stadium is better.

Shea Stadium from behind home plate.

View from our "box" seats along the first base line. Braves won the first game, Meterosexuals took the second game.

On Sunday, we went to the Bronx (after dodging rats in the NY Subway system!) to see the Yankees take on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Yeah, I know they aren't the devil rays any more, but I'm still calling them that! We sat out in the bleachers, it was near 90 and humid! I had one of those giant coca-colas that you can only get at a baseball stadium and it was perfect. The Yankees won, A-Rod hit a grand slam, and Derek Jeter tied Lou Gherig for the most hits in Yankee stadium.


That's me above the Yankee's bullpen. Our seats were just a few rows above this location. Home plate is way over my head back there.

Visitors to "monument park" which has monuments to all the Yankee greats and the retired numbers.

I don't have much nice to say about New York City, so I won't say anything at all other than it was 33 years before I made it here for the first time, it's ok with me if I don't get back for another 33.

Off to San Jose, CA to the office tonight. I'll be working on saving the world's babies from the shady Chinese baby formula manufacturers. Toothpaste, pet food, baby formula, does anyone over there have a conscious at all?