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Carry the porch
SNY team returns to outfield for broadcast
SNY’s award-winning broadcasting team — Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen — ventures out to the Pepsi Porch in right field for the first time this season to call Mets-Phillies on Wednesday night at Citi Field.
“It’s a different way to watch a game. I love it,” Hernandez told the Rumble from his usual perch behind home plate. “It’s a nice break. I feel like this is more of our job. In there, it’s like we’re sitting in the stands like a fan.”
Team SNY gave the Pepsi Porch experience rave reviews in their inaugural appearance there on July 20, when Angel Pagan’s walk-off home run right underneath them beat the Cardinals.
“There are dangers of letting Keith loose amongst the public, but we deal with that,” Cohen joked.
Fans wishing to purchase tickets near where the SNY broadcasters are calling the game can log onto Mets.com.
Program counts your golf steps, of course
New York-based Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and the PGA of America have teamed up for the health and fitness initiative “Let’s Move on Course,” encouraging golfers to walk the course while playing in an effort to lead healthier lifestyles. This week, HSS launched an interactive website dedicated to the program that allows players to track steps taken and calories burned while playing golf. At http://www.hss.edu/golf players can create personalized “walking” accounts to track their progress daily with total steps updated automatically. Visitors also have the option of tracking scores for rounds of golf throughout the year, watching instructional videos and viewing tips to stay healthy on the course. … Tuesday will be Jay Mottola Day at GlenArbor Golf Club in Bedford, where the affable executive director of the Met Golf Association will be saluted for his hard work and committment to New York-area golf. Past “Traditions of Golf’’ honorees at GlenArbor include Gary Player, golf pro Dennis Walters and columnist Dave Anderson.
Website contest offers 1-on-1 lessons
Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long — along with Barry Larkin, Tom Glavine, Jack Cust and softball star Jennie Finch — are going to be webcast instructors for http://www.ClubDiamondNation.com starting this summer. To introduce the site, they are participating in a contest where a winner can get a 1-on-1 lesson at Diamond Nation complex in Flemington, N.J. $25,000 is being donated to charity, with the player getting the most votes earning the biggest contribution. No cost to vote.
Models spend summer on MSG’s ‘Block Party’
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, and fiancé of singer John Legend, Chrissy Teigen will join Fuse’s Allison Hagendorf as co-host of MSG’s Music Fridays starting June 1. The beauties are just two of a collection of celebrities who will appear on MSG between Memorial Day and Labor Day as the network kicks off its annual Summer Block Party lineup featuring themed programming every night of the week. The nights include: Movie Mondays & Tuesdays, hosted by Michael Rapaport; Countdown Wednesdays featuring the all-new show “MSG Countdown: Celebrity Edition” with episodes hosted by Justin Tuck, Edie Falco, Jerry Ferrara, and the Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Adam Horovitz; Knicks Thursdays featuring Anthony Mason and Derek Harper in the 25-part series “Knicks Greatest Rivalries”; Music Fridays with concerts by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence and the Machine, Pink and Coldplay; Saturday Night Originals, including new episodes of “MSG’s Vault”; and Sunday Night Fights.
Fans score big on Cyclones scoreboard
The Brooklyn Cyclones’ new Social Scoreboard just launched a few weeks ago and is the first of its kind anywhere in the Metro area. It gives fans a chance to win prizes by tapping into social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. People can “like” or share posts, check in at MCU Park, send tweets using certain hash tags or retweet messages directly from the team’s Twitter feeds. For every fan who “checks in” to MCU Park using Foursquare before each home game, the team will randomly choose one fan to throw out the first pitch before that game. At the end of the season, the grand prize for whoever has the highest number of points is a trip for two to Mets 2013 spring training. Fans can sign up for free at http://www.cyclonessocialscoreboard.com.
Gehrig dinner touches Cano
The sixth annual Lou Gehrig Dinner was held last Sunday at Yankee Stadium and attended by Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano. The dinner was run by Chris Scandaglia, who lost his grandfather to ALS in 1990 and this year raised over $10,000 for the family of Nick Chiarulli, who died of the disease in January at 32. Chiarulli’s wife Joanna and infant son Nicholas were in attendance and made an impact on Cano.
“Before I got to the Yankees, I didn’t really know what the disease was,” Cano said. “Now, I hear about it, but until you meet the people who have to deal with it, you don’t really understand how tough it is.”