Archive for October, 2009
The Yankees’ Lucky Charm: Lucky Shirt, Lucky Shoes, Lucky Jeans
As you’ve probably already heard, this 2009 season has been pretty remarkable for me and my boys in the Bronx. In fact, when I am in attendance (and Sergio Mitre does not start – important caveat), the Yankees are undefeated in both the regular season and the playoffs. Of my 14 wins at the Stadium, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tale of the Tweets: World Series Game 2
Once again, here are all my tweets from World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium. Look, I do this for myself, but if you want to take a look, be my guest. Oh, in terms of the game, I’ll put together a brief recap later, but you can also check out this post from Rebecca [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tale of the Tweets: World Series Game 1
Due to technical difficulties from the Stadium during Game 1 (the cell towers couldn’t have been overloaded, right?), I couldn’t post all my updates to Posterous, Twitter and Facebook. So, here are all my tweets during the Phillies 6-1 win over the Yankees, starting with the first optimistic post to the last. Me, my lucky [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tales from the Inbox: NY Times Headlines – April 10, 2007 (*scroll to Sports for a good laugh)
While cleaning out my Gmail inbox, I stumbled across the oldest NY Times email in there, from way back on April 10, 2007. Before I deleted it, I decided to take a look at this e-mail time capsule. I was surprised and amused by some of the headlines from two and a half years ago, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Aaron Boone Game: Six Years Later
Last Friday was the six year anniversary of Aaron Boone’s walk-off home run against the Red Sox to end Game 7 and the 2003 ALCS at the Stadium on October 16, 2003. Holy frijoles (as my friend Ken Fang of Fangs Bites would say), has it really been six years? Damn time flies. Of course [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Diary of a Mad Yankee Fan (or how I spent my Saturday night)
While waiting for more pictures of my adorable new nephew Sam, I watched Yankees-Angels ALCS Game 2 at Blondie’s on the UWS. Yeah, I know you’re shocked that I was watching the game at a bar. It’s so unlike me. I did turn down tickets to the game earlier in the day. Frankly I had [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Aunt Amanda
Aunt Amanda proudly and happily announces the arrival of her nephew Samuel Harris Rykoff, born October 16, 2009 at 10:06 p.m. PDT. Congratulations Becky and Eli. I love you and am so thrilled. Yay!!!!!!!!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Did I Get Here?
Surprise! Well, actually, no surprise at all. It was inevitable. But I came at it a little backwards. Facebook started it back in 2007 and I became obsessed with status updates. So of course the next step was Twitter, since it’s like status updates on crystal meth. And then some. But then I had a [...]
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Just your typical snarky Yankees-loving sports fanatic TiVo junkie. 
