Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Thoroughly enjoyed last night's first of three games between the New York Yankees and New York Mets in this season's first "Subway Series." The pre-game buzz was all about Mets pitcher Johan Santana, who threw the Mets' first-ever "no hitter" his last game in the Mets rotation last Friday.

Santana's luck ran out last night, giving up six runs, including four home runs with three back to back homers by Robinson Cano, Nick Swisher and Andruw Jones in the fourth. Cano hit two homers, both two-run shots with Alex Rodriguez on base.

Yankees ace Hiroki Kuroda had his own no-hitter going through six innings, leaving the game after getting drilled by a line drive in the foot with the ball bouncing up in the air and into Alex Rodriguez's glove for the seventh inning's third out. He left the stadium on crutches.

As usual, Yankee fans sang and danced to the Village People's YMCA in the fifth inning, and one of the fan crowd shots on the Diamondvision screen was of Randy Jones, the disco era band's iconic cowboy.