Yankee Stadium Fan Plunges From Upper Deck

[ixnay]

football > hockey > baseball >>>>>>> basketball > soccer

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
(Almost) Darwinism at work

Weeding out the baseball fans.

[SlowwHand]

Be empty stands.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Only if the Rangers and Astros were playing at home, Slow .

[DerSchwarzfalke]

You were at a game on June 22nd? I was at the June 21st one -- with the 13 run inning. Odd coincidence. I was sitting in what looks to be the same area you're in, except on first base side. I have a really good picture of Giambi making contact on a ground rule double from that game.

As for this fan: what a shmoe. "Gee, I wonder if the net would hold me?" And what if it didn't? Then you seriously hurt three or four people below you. I happened to be watching the game live when it happened, and it was hysterical. I just wish they had tape of him falling.

[Winston]

Yes, that is a strange coincidence. Even more so since it was a chance thing that I went to see that game. I'd heard about the 'unusual' game the night before, the one you were at. And then in the morning, I was waiting in line for 3 hours to get a ticket to Spamalot at the Schubert Theatre, and I got to talking with this woman who was on the staff for the Tampa Bay team, and she told me there was a game the same afternoon, and I decided to go watch.

Then at the stadium ticket line, a guy came up and asked if I would buy an extra $40 ticket he had, for $20. (or was it $20 and 10, can't really remember). Deal! So I got to sit with him and his friends, and he filled me in on what was going on. As it's really a complicated thing to follow when you're not used to it.

So it wasn't all bad. Just generally boring. Well it was, compared to the game the night before!

Here's another picture where you can just make out a portion of the net that the guy jumped into, in the bottom right corner.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well it was, compared to the game the night before!

Bah! You just can't appreciate a pitcher's duel .

[Winston]

Forgot to attach it.

[Winston]

Pitcher's duel, schmitcher's duel! It was only my 2nd baseball game ever, I had a hard enough time telling the two teams apart.

I might as well post the last picture I took, I think it's a pretty good "action shot". You can see the ball coming at the batter, or hitter.. the guy with the stick!!

[Dis]

yankess suck

[Asher]

Originally posted by Winston
Pitcher's duel, schmitcher's duel! It was only my 2nd baseball game ever, I had a hard enough time telling the two teams apart.

I might as well post the last picture I took, I think it's a pretty good "action shot". You can see the ball coming at the batter, or hitter.. the guy with the stick!!

The graphics are pretty good -- I dig the realtime shadows. Looks like they used stencil shadows instead of a shadowbuffer, but they're too sharp to be fully realistic.

The gameplay looks pretty boring, though.

[Winston]

[SlowwHand]

The batter is only a hitter, if he hits it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Pitcher's duel, schmitcher's duel! It was only my 2nd baseball game ever, I had a hard enough time telling the two teams apart.

One is batting. One is on defense (pitching & fielding) .

And a pitcher's duel is just as exciting (IMO MORE exciting) than a Home Run fest.

[Dis]

home run fests are boring too

baseball can only be fun if you are drunk.