June 26 2006: Dodging Raindrops

“I had an experience yesterday that I have never had before in my life: seeing a game at Yankee Stadium with empty stands. Oh sure, when I was a kid we often went to games that were half-full. Even Dave Righetti’s no-hitter on a sweltering July 4th had ten thousand seats empty. But these days, when the attendance record was broken last year and is on pace to go up once more, here’s how it happened that me, corwin, and 6,807 other fans saw a game together at the big ballpark in the Bronx…”