Vegas, baby, Vegas!
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 16, 2007 
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My flight from Oakland to New York was canceled. So I flew to Vegas with Sweeny Murti of WFAN and Tyler Kepner (above) of the Times.
Those guys are connecting through here to New York at 2 a.m. But I’m going to stay here and play $10 blackjack at the Golden Nugget for a few days, make a few dollars and cover the Class AAA team.
Either that or I’ll be at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.
So, loyal readers, please bear with me as I make my slow route home. We’ll do our best to keep you posted on any news.
enjoy vegas and travel safely.
You deserve the break. You are my favorite beat writer by far. I understand that writers root for stories but you seem to root for stories in which the Yankees do well. That’s what I like about your blog. You don’t sound like a mercenary who wants any good story (e.g. “Steinbrenner goes insane; trades Hughes for Lieber…”, or “Yankees stumble to last place; Boss roars:’Serve me Brian’s head ASAP’”)
Don’t know how long you’re in town, but if you guys want to grab an adult beverage with a Yankees fan in Vegas who’s had a few road trips for his paper screwed up by the weather, shoot an email to naujacks11@hotmail.com. Have a great trip regardless.
don’t forget, draw on soft 17…
Sorry for the tough flight back – enjoy Vegas!
Hope you win plenty!
Enjoy Vegas, the weather is still horrible here, i practically awam to work today.
Don’t read a kasey post before you gamble. Hes a known Eddie Mush
Pete:
Most people hate living out of a suitcase going from one boring business class hotel to another and taking redeyes and cabs and saving receipts and losing receipts and being in lonely airports at 2 a.m. and missing family and eating microwave food that tastes like cardboard from freezer burn and scrambling to get home when your flight is canceled.
Yet I look at this 2 a.m. picture of Ty and Sweeny with the neon Vegas sign behind them and I start to suspect that maybe you guys are actually having the time of your lives. Make sure you save some of these pictures for yourself.
put 5 on red vinny chase style, if you win you know its gonna be a good time
uh-oh.
does this mean you missed “The Sopranos”?
good luck Pete. Not sure how things are in the city, but if you go anywhere near Westchester, better bring a raft…
Swisher and Scutaro Comments after the game when Scutaro hits game winning 3run Hr of Mo.
Quote From Hippie Nick Swisher
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti.....P98TN1.DTL
As Nick Swisher noted while watching a Jackie Robinson tribute on television, “The only player who still wears No. 42 gives it up — we had Jackie on our side today.”
“I was just praying the ball wouldn’t go foul,” Scutaro said. “He doesn’t give me too many pitches to hit. Even when he throws it down the middle, it’s hard to hit. Against Mariano, the way I’m feeling at the plate, the last thing I expected to do was hit a home run. I still can’t believe it.”
Just email peter about it, he’ll get them banned.
i don’t usually advocate this but Nick needs to get hit! He was really ticking me off this weekend with his antics. and now he says jackie was on our side. Is he retarded?
1/2 inch to the left it was a foul ball, he just got lucky, it barely got out, infact it nicked the foul pole and came back on the field.
I HATE Scutaro. Pesky little bastard always with the timely hits….
jennifer:
I’m with you on Swisher. Who poses when they catch an easy fly ball in CF? (I bet Rocket would have knocked him down).
and yeah, the insinuation that Mariano shouldn’t still be wearing 42 deserves a nice shiner.
blackjack sucks, play hold’em!
i play online poker to pay my way through a 40k a year college :p
There are a couple of them who deserve to get knocked down.
Yeah every time Nick made an easy catch he was high fiving the rf’er, I hope those who are attending games when they play here took notice, cause they deserve to hear it.
I found something interesting on an old (2005) Athletics blog by google-ing Swishie. It mentions his struggles with his “professionalism”:
Blez: I talked with Billy [Beane] earlier this year and he told me a story about a conversation you and he had after you hit a home run against Cleveland.
Swisher: I don’t even want to hear it. (Laughs) The dance in the dugout, I already know what you’re talking about. My buddy Esteban German is around here somewhere. (Oakland was playing Texas that day)
Blez: (Laughing) Tell me how that conversation went.
Swisher: He told me not to do it. Don’t do it. And I said, “Yes, sir.” And that’s all that conversation included. (Laughing)
Blez: He saw it while he was in San Diego, right?
Swisher: I was just a little excited. I learned and we’re really working on professionalism. I have to learn how to be a professional player. And having guys like Mark Kotsay and Scott Hatteberg around all the time to keep me in line definitely pays off.
Swisher: I was just a little excited. I learned and we’re really working on professionalism. I have to learn how to be a professional player. And having guys like Mark Kotsay and Scott Hatteberg around all the time to keep me in line definitely pays off.
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i guess it didn’t really work out now did it Nick. He acts like a little leaguer out there, that is so excited any time he catches a fly ball
He’s rubbing off on Buck too, apparently.
i don’t need bruney talking about other teams and how they play the game. just pitch the baseball!
Go through the shark tank at the Golden Nugget.
kerouac, Bruney has been pitching the baseball, and quite well. Did I miss something he said about another team?
Chris, Brian made reference to Buck throwing down his helmet when he crossed the plate with the winning run Friday night. He thought it was classless.
thanks Jennifer.