Adding Fuel To The Fire

So here I am talking about fascination with the lovely New York Yankees yet again. My brother has a mlb.tv account which is an awesome feature offered by Major League Baseball that allows you to watch all the games (not in your local market) online. Granted you have to pay a chunky amount of money for the subscription, for any enthusiastic baseball fan (of more than just one team), it is really worth the money. It really is.

So I am 5 games into the season for both the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays and here is where I stand.

Games Watched: New York Yankees (5) and Toronto Blue Jays (4)
Games Watched means I caught a portion of the game that given night.

Here is my goal for the season. Just because I live in the tri-state area and it is more convenient for me to watch the Yankees, I plan to catch at least an inning (or more) of all 162 (plus postseason if they make it) games. So far I have caught 3 full games and 2 partial games but I am 5/5. For the Blue Jays, I caught all 3 games versus the Yankees but only 1 of 2 so far against the Red Sox. As for the Jays since I will have to catch most of their games online, I am hopeful to watch at least 81 games (half the season).

For obstacle for this series is already very near. From April 11-13, I will be in Washington DC with some friends. It’s like the baseball Gods purposely set up a series for the Yankees against the Red Sox that weekend. So I will try to see what I can catch when I get into DC, a day game Saturday isn’t looking too good but I’m very optimistic towards the Sunday night game.

I am sure I am going to hear it in one form or another of those that continue to suspect that I am a closet Yankee fan and this will certainly add fuel to the fire about that theory but I am a baseball fan. It doesn’t matter to me if the game features the Somerset Patriots and Newark Bears from the Atlantic League, to Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees in the minor leagues to New York Yankee or Washington Nationals game in the pros. I am pretty sure I only missed a handful of Yankee games last year and make no mistake, even though I tend to watch a rather large number of their games, I am under no circumstances, rooting for them. I have always been a Blue Jays fan and I rooted for them in the first 3 games. Since then I have cheered for the division-leading Tampa Bay Rays against the Yankees.

I’ll periodically update my status report on the games I’ve watched so far and what I think of the two teams’ seasons so far.

Just so I recap, here is the goal for this season. Catch all 162 New York Yankee games this year and at least 81 Blue Jays games over the course of the season.