i (heart) andy pettitte!!!

since we missed yankee spring training, matt decided he better take me to a game to see andy pitch...or hear about it until next year's spring training. good choice, miller!

ANDY PETTITTE!!! even in the outer atmosphere of the stadium...had a pretty good view of the field...he's a lefty, so we also had a pretty good view of his bum, too! :-) matt was thrilled...

classic "andy pettitte before he pitches" stance. an inconsequential note on his heiny: tv makes it look much larger than it really is, but i'm sure he doesn't spend too much time obsessing about such things. NOT that i spent too much time obsessing about it either...just an observation. :-)

i decided at this point to try and get as close as i could to take pictures. went down to field level and asked a nice security officer if i could go down and get a few quick shots...he told me i could between innings...so with his permission i started walking down towards the front rows...UNTIL...a nasty security officer made a "slashing" motion across his throat...GOSH, big fat meany!!! my sin nature told me i should go down two more steps before stopping...i sure showed him! should have brought my camera with better zoom ability...the "close-up" pictures weren't much better...

derek jeter...not a huge fan, but he was up to bat when i was taking close-up pictures.


if i remember correctly, he got a base hit.

HIDEKI MATSUI!!! my second favorite yankee.

a few warm-up pitches...

i accidentally took a classic "baseball player adjusting himself" picture right before this one...decided not to share...how embarrassing, andy!!!

he's about finished...made it to the 8th inning. since matt had to work in the morning and i had to catch a 6:00 am flight, we decided to leave before the game was over and before we could get caught in the hoards of people leaving the stadium.

i was hoping the whole game that someone would see me and just KNOW that i'm a big andy pettitte fan...and then i would get to go down to the dugout and meet him...no such luck! oh well. i've heard he's a christian, so maybe i'll get to meet him in heaven...he'd be way down on my list of people i want to meet in heaven...but he'd definitely make my top 100. :-)