A few posts ago, Bean Whittle wrote about seeing Kyle Farnsworth and the rest of his pals in the Yankee bullpen at the Stadium on the first Friday night of the season.
While Bean Whittle was in the upper deck for that game, Bronx La Monica and Campus Confidential were enjoying the view from the front row along the right-field line.
Before the game started, I stated one simple rule about coming to games involving the current roster: "When Kyle Farnsworth enters the game, we leave."
Agreed.
But after Girardi made the move to Farnsworth's understudy, LaTroy Hawkins, things got interesting. Hawkins gave up 17 runs in less than two minutes. The only thing left for Girardi was to bring in "Firewater Farnsie." The only thing left for us was to sit and watch the massacre. Kind of like when a tiger tears about a baby animal on the Discovery Channel. It's impossible to turn away.
The guy sitting behind me asked the over/under on how many Rays would score while Farnsworth was on the mound. He set it at 2. I took the over. No-brainer.
I then suggested the better prop bet is how many pitches it will take for "Firewater Farnsie" to give up a bomb. The guy set that over/under at 12. I took the under. Again, no-brainer.
This poor fan would never make it in Vegas, because Farnsie's fourth pitch ended up in the right-field stands for a three-run homer.
The Yankees may have gotten smoked by those scrappy Rays, but at least I won my in-stadium parlay.
- La Monica