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May. 10th, 2012 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretLast night the Knicks played a playoff game, the Rangers played a playoff game, the Yankees and Mets played... and the New York Red Bulls played the Houston Dynamo. Guess which game I went to? Hint: it was one of only two where the New York team won, and I don't go out to Queens on work nights anymore after the tornado fiasco of ought ten.
It's my first time in the new Red Bull Arena, which is now a couple years old. It's fairly nice. It's also strangely annoying to get to from where I live. Harrison's a big commuter stop on the PATH now, so the time people would drive to the game is also the time when hordes of commuters are leaving the parking lots. Apparently it's a mess, and the Red Bulls site encourages people to take mass transit to the game. But the timing of train schedules didn't work out nicely for me to park in New Brunswick, take the train to Newark, take the PATH to Harrison, and be there before the game starts. So I decided to park in Newark and take the PATH to Harrison, which was annoying. The parking in Newark part, I mean. The PATH was fine.
Kenny Cooper scored a nice goal 7 minutes into the game. The rest of the game was scoreless, and a little dull in places, but the Red Bulls' aggression picked up in the second half and there were a number of nice scoring chances. Ryan Meara is every bit the ridiculous fan favorite I would have expected, too, and he had a very solid game in goal. My only other complaint was that beer was kind of on the high side. I expect to pay 9 bucks for a drinkable beer at a Yankee game, but between it being New Jersey and it being a soccer game, I thought it'd maybe be a little less.
Meanwhile, the Knicks lost and the Rangers lost. The Knick game I was pretty reconciled to. It's been a strange season for the Knicks- I remember I posted on Christmas day about my surprise that I might actually be rooting for a decent Knicks team this year. Then there was a freefall, and then there was Linsanity, and then there was the aftermath of Linsanity, and D'Antoni's firing, and the rise of a quasi-defensively oriented Woodson team that was entirely oriented around 'Melo. This time has had a dozen different identities this year, and given the injuries and the crazy schedule, I have to say I'm not that disappointed with only taking one win from the Heat.
The Rangers, on the other hand... I'm really only a Rangers fan during the playoffs. I tend to keep enough of an eye on the team during the regular season that when playoffs roll around I know the names of the players so I don't sound like an idiot. But I like this Rangers team a lot, and I feel good about their chances against the Devils. But Game 7s are strange and wondrous things. Who knows what happens in this one?
And let's make this the quasi-weekly baseball post, too, by observing that if such things had existed, I would have bought Mariano injury swaps before the season. The kinetics of that high velocity pitching motion, over an 18 year career... something like this was going to happen.
It's my first time in the new Red Bull Arena, which is now a couple years old. It's fairly nice. It's also strangely annoying to get to from where I live. Harrison's a big commuter stop on the PATH now, so the time people would drive to the game is also the time when hordes of commuters are leaving the parking lots. Apparently it's a mess, and the Red Bulls site encourages people to take mass transit to the game. But the timing of train schedules didn't work out nicely for me to park in New Brunswick, take the train to Newark, take the PATH to Harrison, and be there before the game starts. So I decided to park in Newark and take the PATH to Harrison, which was annoying. The parking in Newark part, I mean. The PATH was fine.
Kenny Cooper scored a nice goal 7 minutes into the game. The rest of the game was scoreless, and a little dull in places, but the Red Bulls' aggression picked up in the second half and there were a number of nice scoring chances. Ryan Meara is every bit the ridiculous fan favorite I would have expected, too, and he had a very solid game in goal. My only other complaint was that beer was kind of on the high side. I expect to pay 9 bucks for a drinkable beer at a Yankee game, but between it being New Jersey and it being a soccer game, I thought it'd maybe be a little less.
Meanwhile, the Knicks lost and the Rangers lost. The Knick game I was pretty reconciled to. It's been a strange season for the Knicks- I remember I posted on Christmas day about my surprise that I might actually be rooting for a decent Knicks team this year. Then there was a freefall, and then there was Linsanity, and then there was the aftermath of Linsanity, and D'Antoni's firing, and the rise of a quasi-defensively oriented Woodson team that was entirely oriented around 'Melo. This time has had a dozen different identities this year, and given the injuries and the crazy schedule, I have to say I'm not that disappointed with only taking one win from the Heat.
The Rangers, on the other hand... I'm really only a Rangers fan during the playoffs. I tend to keep enough of an eye on the team during the regular season that when playoffs roll around I know the names of the players so I don't sound like an idiot. But I like this Rangers team a lot, and I feel good about their chances against the Devils. But Game 7s are strange and wondrous things. Who knows what happens in this one?
And let's make this the quasi-weekly baseball post, too, by observing that if such things had existed, I would have bought Mariano injury swaps before the season. The kinetics of that high velocity pitching motion, over an 18 year career... something like this was going to happen.