You will wonder what this has to do with baseball as you read, but I have to tell the whole story. It begins as such:
There was an accident on the NJ Garden State Parkway Wednesday that shut the southbound road 8 miles above Exit 74. The accident was at Exit 74, A truck hit the exit overpass. http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080605/NEWS/806050571
It took me 3 hours, 47 minutes to get from the Toms River Tolls to my house last night' a distance of 9.7 miles. the overpass road is shut indefinitely for repairs, cutting 80% of my town off from a direct route into the town center, and isolating the people who live west of the Garden State Parkway from shopping, schools and gasoline.
I was stuck in traffic at ~6:30 PM. I would have been home in time to see last night's Yankee Game. I sale the 9th inning, that's all. I was trapped in the car and in my area of NJ the radio broadcast did not reach. I also left he XM radio home that day by accident. No baseball.
Fortunately I got some game updates from my friend Mike, (Check out -New York Yankee Update). Proving that true Yankee fans will always help other Yankee fans. Mike by the way was stuck in the same traffic mess hours earlier. Today's blog isn't so much about baseball but baseball friendships.
I met Mike online through Myspace. From time to time I have actually socialized with Mike and his wife; we like the same local band. Mike is one of the many NYY fans I have met online and a decent egg.
Mike provided me with a few game updates by testing my PDA. Mike knows the feeling of desperation and suicide when you are trapped in your car for hours. The game updates helped me forget about committing suicide. After an hour in car you become suicidal when the car has only gone 1 mile and there is no place to go. Mike is a true Yankee fan and a source of volumes of Yankee history.
If you have not read the New York Yankke Update, you should, especially the archives.
