So on Saturday, May 5, at 10 a.m., the Media All Stars will once again show up to take on the Lighthouse for the Blind in a game of Beepball. The game will be at the New York Yankees' Community Field, next to Legends Field. Beepball is a game where the sighted are blindfolded. They try to hit a ball that beeps as it goes by. If you happen to hit the thing, you have to find first base, which is also beeping, before the team in the field finds the ball.
Winter is the only media person in the last few years to actually hit the ball.
I figured maybe with three weather people we had a better chance. News Channel 8 is also sending over morning anchor Gayle Guyardo, who has never hit the ball. Just to show we're not leaving anything to chance, we have made Rich Monteleone, the pitching coordinator in the Yankees organization, an official media person, along with Yankee Senior Vice President Mark Newman. You Lighthouse people might as well kiss this one goodbye.