 Pete Giardo telling us earlier this week in our conversation, he grew up in the Bronx and moved to the Dominican Republic in his teenage years, but still has family that live in the Bronx area. 1-1 pitches, swung on a miss for strike two, and playing with Altoona this season is the first time he's played on the East Coast and, you know, the Mid-Atlantic region since he was a kid playing in the Bronx. Wow.