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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

YANKS PLAN FIRST PITCH FROM SPACE (RR)

and I hope he’s tossing it to Ken “Sox” Bowersox!

The New York Yankees today announced that NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman will throw out the ceremonial first pitch from the International Space Station prior to Wednesday’s game vs. the Boston Red Sox.

It will be the first ceremonial first pitch ever thrown from space in Yankee Stadium history.

Reisman, 40, docked at the International Space Station on March 12, carrying dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher’s mound, a Yankees banner, and a hat autographed by Yankees principal owner George M. Steinbrenner.

“Launching on the space shuttle and living aboard the International Space Station is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Reisman said. “But as a lifelong Yankees fan, throwing out the first pitch at a Yankees-Red Sox game is also a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

“I am really honored to have this opportunity in such a historic season in the House that Ruth Built, and I would like to thank the Yankees for being so supportive of our mission up here in space. From Earth’s orbit, but still deep inside the Yankees Universe, let me say, Go Yanks!”

Repoz Posted: April 15, 2008 at 02:54 AM | 26 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. SacBunt Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:07 AM (#2744299)

$10 says he throws the meanest eephus you ever saw.

2. Gamingboy Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:09 AM (#2744302)

The Red Sox will no doubt try to one-up this by starting a Red Sox National Space Program and send a ball into geosynchronous orbit around Earth.

The Yankees will then send a ball to the moon.

The Red Sox will then go to Mars.

Eventually, it will escalate to the point where, centuries, if not milennia, from now, when we are all long dead, aliens will find capsules of Yanks and Sox memorabilia floating somewhere between here and Zeta Reticuli.

3. winnipegwhip Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:15 AM (#2744309)

"Mr. Henry, we are falling behind the Yankees in terms of pregame festivities. WE MUST NOT HAVE A PREGAME FESTIVITIES GAP!"

- Larry Luchino

4. aleskel

Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:21 AM (#2744314)

your tax dollars at work, people!

I hope this doesn't distract the astronauts from their primary job - determining if ants can be used to sort tiny screws in zero gravity

5. Chip Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:21 AM (#2744315)

What they don't know is that a NASA technician who is a Red Sox fan has hidden a David Ortiz jersey under the dirt from the pitcher's mound.

6. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:25 AM (#2744318)

It will be the first ceremonial first pitch ever thrown from space in Yankee Stadium history.

What?

7. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:32 AM (#2744322)

The Red Sox will no doubt try to one-up

Pfft. One pitch from space? Try a whole game. Say hello to Bill Lee.

8. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:32 AM (#2744324)

The Red Sox will no doubt try to one-up

Pfft. One pitch from space? Try a whole game. Say hello to Bill Lee.

9. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:32 AM (#2744323)

Triple posted. New personal record. Sweet.

10. Howie Menckel Posted: April 15, 2008 at 03:43 AM (#2744333)

I had this weird dream once that they tore Yankee Stadium down in the mid-1970s, and the Yankees played at Shea for a couple of years during this span.

But I know it's not true, because everyone seems to agree that this building has been standing since 1923.

11. Random Transaction Generator Posted: April 15, 2008 at 04:26 AM (#2744358)

I was sort of hoping he was going to chuck the ball during a space walk, and then we could watch it burn up in the earth's atmosphere as it's orbit degenerates over the span of a few weeks.

12. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: April 15, 2008 at 04:41 AM (#2744369)

Will the outer space baseball come branded with an asterisk?

13. Robert S. Posted: April 15, 2008 at 04:50 AM (#2744374)

$5 says this space nerd can't even get it across the plate.

14. Tuque

Posted: April 15, 2008 at 05:20 AM (#2744385)

Anybody ever watch Battlestar Galactica? You know the bit from the second season where there's the sports team that survives the nuclear holocaust and becomes badass? I hope that happens to the Red Sox. I would like to see Pedroia wandering around with a few large guns and a very dour expression.

#2, uh, made me think of that.

15. Maury Brown Posted: April 15, 2008 at 05:38 AM (#2744393)

Impress me. Do it from a space walk, and get the ball to home on re-entry. We all know the radar guns are fixed anyway.

16. NTNgod Posted: April 15, 2008 at 05:45 AM (#2744396)

I don't think much of the baseball would survive re-entering the earth's atmosphere :P

17. TerpNats Posted: April 15, 2008 at 05:59 AM (#2744400)

To Stan Kasten: Can you find a way to get the Nationals involved in this Bosox-Yanks "arms race"? We in D.C. don't cotton kindly to being treated like Belgium.

Find out if the CIA is working on some sort of time machine -- then, instead of having statues of Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson, bring us the real things, signed to long-term Nats contracts. (We'd do likewise with Frank Howard, but there'd be a potential paradox since Hondo is still with us.)

18. Gambling Rent Czar Posted: April 15, 2008 at 06:08 AM (#2744405)

this just helps prove my theory that Yankee fans are not from this planet.

19. DCW3 Posted: April 15, 2008 at 06:48 AM (#2744424)

20. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: April 15, 2008 at 06:55 AM (#2744426)

Julian Tavarez is obviously the last cylon.

Jeter is definitely Apollo. What a vag.

21. Rich Posted: April 15, 2008 at 07:03 AM (#2744428)

Will they then be selling the ball?

22. Tim Stauffer, Trot Nixon's Coming (Dan Lee) Posted: April 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM (#2744445)

We choose to throw the first pitch from space and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

23. YR Denies Jesus Montero Posted: April 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM (#2744454)

To Stan Kasten: Can you find a way to get the Nationals involved in this Bosox-Yanks "arms race"? We in D.C. don't cotton kindly to being treated like Belgium.

Keep dreaming. Belgium has perfected the French fry.

24. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: April 15, 2008 at 12:33 PM (#2744469)

"From Earth’s orbit, but still deep inside the Yankees Universe, let me say, Go Yanks!”

Sounds like it's time for some James Taylor.

25. OsunaSakata Posted: April 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM (#2744473)

So that means that Jason Varitek's a Cylon, right?

Back in October 2005, Edward James Olmos introduced the Latino Legends. I was hoping he would end the presentation by announcing that Bud Selig is a Cylon.

26. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: April 15, 2008 at 01:01 PM (#2744492)

My dream is to have Edward Olmos do BSG in his Hispanic acccent. Of course the universe would probably explode from the badassness, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

27. The District Attorney Posted: April 15, 2008 at 01:23 PM (#2744504)

Sounds like it's time for some James Taylor.

With all due respect, this isn't the best time for his unique brand of bittersweet folk rock.

28. John DiFool2 Posted: April 15, 2008 at 01:53 PM (#2744536)

Yankees in Spaaaaace!

Starring:

Captain Derek Batthrob, Miss Alexa Priggy, and Dr. George Steinpork, as they explore the galaxy in their ship, the USS Steintrek.

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