for the past two month, i've had to sit through this most every day. at least every day the yankees play
in 2006, a teachers strike shut down oaxaca. on oct 27th of that year, shots were fired into the crowd. three died.
i went to mexico the following year, just barely knowing about the history in oaxaca. the main reason for my trip was to photograph the day of the dead. i stumbled on the anniversary rememberance.
last year i made it back to mexico for day of the dad, but didn't make it oaxaca until the 29th. this year, unfortunately, i am grounded in new york.
it is very comfortable returning to a destination. i talked to a handful of regular in oaxaca recently. i saw e-bazan on sunday at icp, he flew there yesterday. t-thegringatrail will be headed for peru for a jaunt through south america, i hope to met her in ecuador this winter or columbia for easter.
i will make it back to oaxaca next year.
a few weeks ago world nomad put up a contest. the prize a couple thousand dollars worth of camera equipment and a trip to antartica with a national geographic photographer.
wow.
going through the terms it seemed reasonable. i went for it. heck, it was free, and just on flickr. i had no interest in the gear -- i've got too much. if i won i probably would have donated it to foto baryo. i imagined what to photograph while i was there, how i would feel in a land with no darkness, penguins scampering away from me.
there were a thousand entries. it took me quite some time to go through them. i thought i had a reasonable chance.
the results came in.
i didn't even make the short list.
back to the drawing board on how to get to my seventh continent.
what i submitted is here
ten years ago, i was sitting in yankee stadium. m-guydrive was there, i believe his sister as well. it was the alcs game 1, we sat on the first base side of the outfield. the yankees were facing the dreaded red sox. games between the yankees and red sox notoriously took forever. earlier that season we sat through a five hour marathon. this night would be no different.
orlando hernandez was on the mound for the yanks, i don't remember who pitched for boston. after a little fluke, el duque pitched his heart. but boston built up a 3-0 lead by the second inning and the yanks spent the rest of the game playing catch up. they tied it in the seventh with small ball. the already long game went into extra innings.
in the bottom of the 10th on the first pitch, bernie williams hit a deep home run to dead center. we knew it from the crack of the back. (burn baby burn). we rejoiced and took the train back home.
tickets then were easier to come by. we were already at a game in the alds, p-42eldridge was taken to the holding room because he pegged an indian fan's eye with a peanut. we would also make it to game 2 alcs, yanks win 3-2 (?).
life before stub hub, there wasn't as much blatant scalping. now people try there luck on ticketmaster just to turn around tickets onto stub hub. i thought about turning a $120 dollar profit on my single ticket for the game, i quickly gave up that idea.
available alcs tickets now are a $406 ticket and a $1056 ticket. i i.m. y-twokicks whether they were worth it, even though i know the answer. i did find a $39 ticket in the back on right field... in california.
i spoke with t-bgst earlier today, he lives in denver and was at the last two alds rockies games, $40 total.
i've become a grumpy old man.
maybe i will get tickets from the world series lottery to be a kid again.
50,006 paid attendance in the new yankee stadium tonight. i was one of them.
i found a ticket around the right field line on the ticketmaster site
yesterday afternoon.
it was sloppy. it was one of the most exciting games i've seen. the game covered the full gamut of emotions.
the sung hero, of course, tex and a-rod.
the unsung hero of the game, brett garner. ok, he got caught off third in the bottom of the 10th. even if he had a moderate lead, he would have been out anyway. but in the top of the 11th, on one of the singles, he came in field the ball cleanly and fired straight into home.
getting out of bases no outs without a run... [priceless.
now i sit back in the office, working, listening to the angels red sox games. i'm baseball obsessed this post season.
pictures to come from the "new" 6x6 folder. that is if hideki matsui actually fixed the light leak.