Acoustical aberrance or ultimate in fan convenience?

I've noticed something. No joke. I haven't been to the Interactive Yankeetainment Experience yet (and in fact I realized I can't make it to the one game with $5 tickets I was able to nab some seats for before the season started, so I might in fact be going back to my original vow never to set foot inside; $5 being the maximum I will spend to enter this limestone travesty), so maybe this is some sort of oddity of the TV microphones.

But...and really, this is not a joke, not based on the team's piss poor week, or on anything else. Am I the only one who has noticed that the ambient noise in the Interactive Yankeetainment experience is a medium-pitched whine akin to endless boos? Seriously, no matter what the crowd's actual reaction is, everything sounds like boos. Could it be the slats along the back of the upper deck causing the wind to whistle? I honestly have no idea, but the sound annoys the hell out of me, to the point where I can't watch a whole home game on TV.

Then again, given recent events, maybe it's just as well that the Interactive Yankeetainment Experience itself is doing the booing. After all, it saves us (well, those of us who feel like blowing a few days' pay on watching the fifth coming of the 2005 Yankees, which doesn't necessarily include me)  the trouble. Finally, a useful feature in this mafioso-wedding-factory of a ballpark.

As for tonight's game, as Tex would say, "We play today, we lose today. Dassit."

P.S.: Or is the Interactive Yankeetainment Experience telling us to hire Lou Piniella once we're done with this experiment of having a surly wax figure with a bad haircut as our manager?

Live blog, you say? Sure, why not...

Well, here we are in the fourth inning. Sabathia coughed up three last inning, but it could have been worse. Certainly, the Yankees should be able to come up with two more.

The B&O warehouse, which Kay and Singleton are talking about right now, is, if you ask me, the best thing about Camden Yards. It was a nice idea, a Disneyfied nod to Old-Tyme Base-Ball, but I honestly don't care for the place. I haven't been there since 1996. Maybe I'd like it better if I went back. But I doubt it, now that it's not even distinctive, having been copied so many times since. Supreme irony, that: it was supposed to be a reaction to the cookie-cutter copies of Shea, and it has spawned a brood of imitators Shea could only have dreamed about. Including Shea's own  replacement.

Bottom 4: Derek Jeter has plenty of range, thank you very much, but it's mostly vertical. And Michael Jordan wouldn't have had that liner, so Derek gets a break. CC Sabathia is a large man. I knew this, but wow. He is a large man. And based on his command thus far in this game, he ranks second to David Weathers as best Yankee pitcher to wear #52, at least among those I can think of offhand. Jose Contreras, another 52, is starting to come to mind, and that's not a good thing. I'm sure he'll be fine later, but he looks ill at ease out there. Nice reach by Teixiera to dig out a low throw from Jeter for the DP. CC's clearly not at his best, but he doesn't have that deer-in-the-headlights look so many Yankee pitchers have had over the last few years, so I'm encouraged.

Top 5: CC and that heating pad are making me nervous. Brett Gardner is scary fast, but not quite fast enough. Speaking of speed, nice work by Johnny Damon legging out a triple here. I've been a boobird myself, but these guys are truly impressive...Teixiera has been up long enough to run the count full, and they're still at it. Aaaaand Matsui pops out to end the inning. I'm tired of writing this, and you're tired of reading it. I'll check in after the game.

Update: Sabathia went 4 1/3 and allowed 6 ER. I take back everything I said...this was a terrible start for Sabathia. However, that was a beautiful play by Gardner to end the inning.