Mariano Rivera might have just broken the record for most photographers capturing a grown man playing in the dirt:

You go to the ball park to see a baseball game, right?

Nine against nine. One ball, one bat and three bases. Baseball is still America’s past time, isn’t it?

Apparently baseball is just a way to pass time at Major League stadiums. The real attraction these days are the gimmicks: The Bobbleheads, the Dodger Dog, the slide and the sausage race in Milwaukee and the rally monkey in Anaheim. And now in the Bronx, the new Yankee Stadium will have – get this – a Hard Rock Café.

Uh, did we miss something?

First of all, the best food at baseball games comes wrapped in foil or in a plastic container.

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