Pitarresi: Too many home runs

I like home runs.

 

I’m sure you like home runs, too.

 

Most people like home runs.

 

However, I don’t like home run after home run after home run, like they have at the new Yankee Stadium. If I’m counting right, it’s 25 home runs in six games. That’s 4.25 home runs a game, which would be an astounding 344 home runs in a season if the average holds up. That’s not likely, I guess, but who knows?

 

The talk is that the new stadium, although it has the same dimensions as the old stadium, which, remember, is really a remoldeling of the remodeled original Yankee Stadium – got that? – has different wind currents because of its more open construction, etcetera, et al and so on.

 

Apparently, these wind currents only blow out. At least currently.

 

Or maybe it isn’t wind currents at all. Maybe, as one expert suggests, it’s just bad pitching.

 

I don’t know and I don’t care. I just don’t want to see 344 home runs. It’s way too much of a good thing.