The best summer I ever had... so far...

This summer started slow, it rained quite a bit for much of June and I spent most of my time playing my PS3, learning to enhance photos with my Photoshop software and meeting new friends on Weplay... First, I finally figured out how to fix my PS3 system to work on line and when I did, it felt like all of my old games were new again. My favorite game on line is "Call of Duty 4", so... if you're ever on... look for me, my name is "xyran" pronounced "zy-rin" not x-y-ran.

I also learned how to enhance and edit pictures using Adobe software, so I tried to make at least one collage for each Yankee player... I know I missed a few players, but I will get to them one day... if they're still with the Yankees.

Plus, I joined Weplay... This is my first and only experience... meeting people on line... One of my first friends that I met after Jeter (of course) was Danni Marie, who was very nice to me and made me feel welcomed, but it seems like all she wanted to talk about is how good the Yankees look...? Especially Jeter when she sees the number 2 on the back of his uniform... I guess she likes the number 2...? I just don't get it...?

Other great people I met on Weplay early on, who I like very very much, are Nicole Fecht, Erik Gaffron, Sage, Sami, and Alexa McGraw. We have had some interesting conversations and I hope we continue to write to each other...

Other newer friends I've met and hope we continue to be friends is Joyce (see Joyce... I made you first... I hope your happy now), Kalee Naraine (very special friend), Lilly Marie, Stacian Doyley and Jennifer Berg...

One last (dff not least) really great friend I met here at Weplay is Ariel Epstein, we spoke for a couple months, then realized we were both going to the same Yankees Game and sitting in the same section... well we met at the game... Some how finagled our way into front row seats and we (she) screamed at Jeter at every opportunity while ordering me to get up and wave our Weplay banner at him... Because of her... Jeter saw our sign... then smiled at us... like I've always said, he smiled more at Ariel than me... I will never turn down an offer to go to a Yankee's game with her... Ariel, it has been so very nice to meet you.

Throughout June and into July... I became more and more excited about my road trip north... Not only was I excited about going to Hershey Park, The Baseball Hall of Fame and a couple of other places but especially visiting Yankee Stadium and seeing the worlds best sports team, The New York Yankees play the Baltimore Orioles... My seats were close to the first base side and the Yankees dug out.

Sixteen family members and friends packed into 3 cars... and left Worcester, Ma at 12:30 PM and arrived at Yankee Stadium about 3:30 PM. As we were hanging around outside the stadium I was sooo happy to see soo many Yankee Fans. J I was finally in a place that made my dad and his family a little uncomfortable...J When the gates opened, I felt like there was millions of people trying to squeeze into one door... but when I finally walked into the stadium and seen the green grass, the cloudy blue sky and my GREAT SEATS with JETER hanging around second base... I knew I would have a really, really great time...

Once in my seat I immediately stood up, yelled to Jeter, then raised my weplay sign... my dad said that Jeter looked over at me and seen the sign... and that Jeter gave a huge smile. A little while later... Ariel came down and introduced herself... and shortly after that I found myself, along with Ariel screaming at Jeter while raising the weplay sign during his warm-ups... Once again, Jeter looks over at us... (I know he heard us... I mean Ariel) and then gave us a big smile...

The game didn't go very well for the Yankees or for "Moose"... Moose got slammed early by Kevin Millar with a 2nd inning 3 run homer... and then their center fielder, Jones hit a GS off David Robertson in the 6th...

The Yankees had one good inning... in the 7^th, Xavier Nady hit a solo homer to left and Johnny Damon hit a 3 run homer to right... Just before Damon hit his HR... he tagged a foul ball off the shoulder of a little kids sitting next to me... I put my glove up and turned my head away because that was the fastest I have ever seen a ball come at me... The little kid got hurt... not too bad, but he got an autograph ball from Damon... wish that was me...

In the 6^th... Jeter singled to center... so this gave me and Ariel the opportunity to yell and scream at Jeter one last time... we also got a couple pictures of us with him on first base...

I will never forget that I was able to see the Yankees play one last game at Yankee Stadium... The house that Ruth built and Jeter closed... the greatest team in the history of all sports... and when I finally get back to school (first and second day of school was canceled today because of Tropical Storm Fay) and fall baseball with the YMCA of Weston begins, I will tell my friend about weplay and hopefully I can bring a few in...

Stay tuned... more to come after this...