In The City
I just settled into my room at the Grand Hyatt, having survived another New York City cab ride. Do they make up T-shirts for the occasion?
It's funny how relaxed I feel in the back seat while the driver is weaving in and out of traffic, barely able to squeeze between cars and leaning heavy on the horn.
As Jerry Seinfeld once noted, we assume that we're safe because the driver is a professional. It's like we're watching a movie as we peer out the side windows and watch pedestrians and cyclists come within inches of becoming a smudge on the windshield.
Anyway, I'll be heading to Yankee Stadium in a few hours, most likely riding the subway and soaking up more of the New York experience - along with whatever fluids have formed a puddle on the platform.
The Orioles placed Daniel Cabrera on the disabled list today with a sprained right elbow. He's done for the season, having gone 8-10 with a 5.25 ERA in 30 starts covering 180 innings.
I guess if an MRI isn't showing anything, "sprain" is the way to go.
DC has a sprain in his head. All indications are that he will not be back as we can't afford the $5 million that he'll demand from arbitration. I agree with that decision. Daniel has been a failed experiment. Trying to make a silk purse out of a Sow's ear is too much of a chore in his case. He is a thrower and will always be a thrower, compounded with fear of the batted ball. He hits batters and can't stand the reciprocation. LET HIM GO!!
hey roch
I woke up this morning with a hangover. Not sure how that happened (maybe that's the problem), but I'd like to know if you have a favorite hangover cure. Thoughts?
Thanks and enjoy NYC.
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Greasy McDonald's breakfast helps, but the best advice I ever received was to hydrate before you go to bed. In fact, order a water for every drink you consume toward the end of the evening, then go home and down at least one bottled water. Take another one with you when you go to bed, so you can hit it each time you wake up. Tremendous help. - Roch
Roch -
What's the assumed name your traveling under? I always use former Orioles pitching great "Terry Mathews", no one ever seems to bother me...
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Daniel Cabrera - Roch
Hi Roch,
Sprain can be a legitimate injury of course, and can show up as pathology on a MRI if severe enough. Its been clear he's been hurting in one way or another. I thought it was a nerve problem because of the numbness/tingling you reported -- maybe it is and they are just calling it a sprain until they get it figured it out. I suppose none of us would be too surprised if cabrera has a neurological disorder at this point. Shame, I've heard he's a very nice guy and we all know the P word he had.
If you think NYC is crazy you should get MASN to send you out to Thailand for some alternate sports coverage in the off season. I have never seen a traffic jam turn into utter gridlock, then just back into a traffic jam so efficiently.
When I was doing Orioles Magazine on the radio, I tried to interview some fans in the stands at Yankee Stadium and was stopped by an usher who told me it was not allowed.
Undaunted, I went into the men's room and interviewed fans in there. The reverb off the walls was an unexpected treat.
I had interviewed Joan Jett before the game.
Roch, I bet you've never interviewed anyone in the men's room. Or have you? Clubhouse men's room doesn't count.
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I can say with great certainty that I've never shaken hands with anyone in there. - Roch
You got a paid trip to NY? Wow, I bet The Sun wouldn't have sprung for that.
I hope you've got a properly fitting suit for the occasion because the one you're wearing in the MASN commercial is so large you look like a kid trying on Dad's clothes.
Get yourself a fake rolex while you're up there too.
Roch, may he rest in peace, he was a good man. I know you hit the gym alot, but your guns will be useless against the guns you will encounter on the subway.
I say this because I remember reading in 1990 that Ben McDonald, Mickey Tettleton, Sam Horn, and Bob Milacki rode TOGETHER on the subway from Manhattan to Yankee stadium. The four of them said that the ride was the most freightening thing they had every experienced. And if you remember those were four big boys.
Great advice on water as a remedy for a hangover. It reduces a majority of the symptoms.
My question is this . . . With many O's pitchers being put on the DL. Can a team transfer someone to the 60 day DL in mid-October, thus creating another spot for a player on the 40 man, in essence protecting a player from the Rule 5 draft?
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I discussed it with two guys in the press box, and we all agree that guys actually have to come off the 60-day. - Roch
Oh Stack: I feel for you. Knowing that I'll have a massive one tomorrow I'll clue you in on a little secret.
Roch's advice was good, but I got a better cure.
Most of the time you can't get yourself out of bed to go get a greasy McD's breakfast, but it does work. So does the water with every drink, but you are usually to drunk to order water!
Anyways, If you are stuck in bed, get up eat a plain bagel toasted with butter and drink a vitamin water. For some reason, sounds gross, but the lemonade flavored one, really helps me. I had the stomach flu a couple months ago and lived on Vitamin water for a week. It was the only thing I could keep down that settled my stomach. Take some aspirin and try and nap for one good hour in the morning. Keep drinking fluids. Then walk around outside or play on the floor with your dog. Getting up and moving helps take your mind off the pain. Just moping around in your jammies and lying in your bed makes it worse. Oh yeah, and the mother of all cures, is to start your morning with a freezing cold shower. That alone will alleviate 90% of your hangover.
I do this every saturday morning and I get to salvage the day and work up a good stomach for Saturday night! WOO!
Anyways, to the O's..... sure they have sucked butt these past couple months, but they can totally redeem themselves if they take 2 out of 3 from the Yanks, especially the last game. Nothing would delight me more than to see Yankee stadium close with a LOSS TO THE ORIOLES! BHAHAHAHA! I will give up drinking for a month if they do that! I'm dead serious!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------That topic was right in Jennifer's wheelhouse! Awesome! - Roch
Awww...Roch....come on....the city that never sleeps is not that bad. If you really want to have fun, when next you get in an NYC cab, hand the driver a $10 bill, and tell him to "step on it". Better than any roller-coaster anywhere!! FWIW, this trick also works in Chicago...great fun!!!
And the NYC subway system is at least the best mass transit system in the US. I travel on it every day, from Jersey City, thru Manhattan, to Brooklyn, where I work...try being an O's fan in NYC...not pleasant. I work in NYC during the week, and I live 5 miles north of Boston...what a contrast. At least I can get along with the Sox fans...we both hate the Yankees!!
Enjoy the weekend, Roch!!!
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Thanks. Just took the 4 train and it was money. Not crowded, very convenient, and much cheaper than a $20 cab ride. - Roch
Roch,
My understanding is the disabled list stops at the end of the season and the team will have to remove players from the roster to get to the 40 man limit. Presently the team is 6 over, so there will be some changes once the season ends. Payton and Loewen will come off for sure and we all can name a few more that we would like to have removed.
Guys, listen to the guru..... I read in awe. I do however have trouble getting out of the jammies at times....
Jennifer said:
Oh Stack: I feel for you. Knowing that I'll have a massive one tomorrow I'll clue you in on a little secret.
Roch's advice was good, but I got a better cure.
Most of the time you can't get yourself out of bed to go get a greasy McD's breakfast, but it does work. So does the water with every drink, but you are usually to drunk to order water!
Anyways, If you are stuck in bed, get up eat a plain bagel toasted with butter and drink a vitamin water. For some reason, sounds gross, but the lemonade flavored one, really helps me. I had the stomach flu a couple months ago and lived on Vitamin water for a week. It was the only thing I could keep down that settled my stomach. Take some aspirin and try and nap for one good hour in the morning. Keep drinking fluids. Then walk around outside or play on the floor with your dog. Getting up and moving helps take your mind off the pain. Just moping around in your jammies and lying in your bed makes it worse. Oh yeah, and the mother of all cures, is to start your morning with a freezing cold shower. That alone will alleviate 90% of your hangover.
I do this every saturday morning and I get to salvage the day and work up a good stomach for Saturday night! WOO!
In all seriousness (and hangovers are serious business) have many of you found the severity of them is directly proportional to getting older? Count me among those people....
Also, don't drink the cheap stuff, they increase the hangover's intensity.
Hangovers are dehydration animals. Mix in some water as Roch said towards the end of the evening's festivities, but down as much water as you can get in your stomach BEFORE going to bed along with 3-4 Advil & your pain will much reduced in the AM. Possibly it will be nonexistent, unless you drink as much as Jennifer, then all bets are off. :-)
Now if you are recreating when you get home, well, just remember to follow the above procedure after those festivities have concluded... this will help to also avoid the real danger that your beer goggles could evaporate prematurely not to mention that heavy dose of water could "throw water" on the real objective at hand.
To Jay in Fells Point: That would actually be a LOLEX, as the sellers pronounce it. What would be even funnier would be seeing them screw up and spell it that way too.
To G. Triandos: The New York subway system of 1990 and the New York subway system of 2008 are night and day. Encountering problems prior to, say, 11:00 PM, is rare now.
Better than a $20 cab ride.
HA. You act like you're spending your own money. Or does your per diem have a daily cap and you're saving up to go drinking after the game.