Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees

It's been a week of minor league baseball in the city. The New York - Penn League - Class A Short Season - has two NYC teams - the Cyclones and the Yankees. On Tuesday, we went to Coney Island for the Cyclones game. For one night only, they were the "Barack-lyn" Cyclones, wearing special patriotic jerseys and the first 2,500 fans got an Obama bobblehead. (Chad and Sarah were the lucky ones - we got there too late). It was an Obama themed night and the Cyclones won 7-3. (Note: The Cyclones are in first place, undefeated at home as of today.)

Keyspan Park - the dark clouds luckily passed right next to us and we stayed dry.

Sarah and Chad keeping score.

On Sunday, we all took the ferry over to Staten Island for the S.I. Yankees game. Their stadium is awesome - it's right on the water and the seats look out to a view of Manhattan. And only in the minors can you pay $14 for a seat behind home plate! The Yankees were playing the Aberdeen Ironbirds, who is the team located closest to our new city. I was rooting for them because I don't think it's possible for me to root for any Yankee team. This was a wild and crazy game - lots of HR's, big comeback by the Yankees, 3 hours long.

View from the ferry

View from our seats (pretend the big barge and dredger are not there and you can see downtown Manhattan)

Vinny Pastore from the Sopranos threw out the first pitch.

It was a warm day but luckily for our fair, lily white skin, our seats were in the shade.

It's official - we have now been to all five boroughs of NYC, just in the nick of time!

Have a happy 4th everyone!