11/4/2009 1:33 am
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I have been thinking Yankees in 6 since the WS started, as I have tickets for tonight's game and really want to see the Yankees win a World Championship in person. I have been to many World Series games, but never the clincher for the Yankees (I saw the Dodgers win it once). I was even at the game where the Yankees LOST the Series to the Marlins in Game 6.
Will the Yankess do it? Who knows? However, I will be there to see it one way or another. The thing I do NOT like about the World Series is that it is totally inaccessible to the real and true fan. My tickets are in the Mezzanine level and cost over $1200 each - it's sick. The stands are filled with corporate bosses (like me...heh-heh) and celebrities and what not, and the regular, every day fan who lives and dies with every pitch all year is not able to access tickets at those prices. Most Dads can't take their kids to the game anymore uring the regular season, much less to a World Series game.
I have been a Yankee fan since my Dad (then NYPD) took me on the field (that badge could get you anywhere back in the day) during batting practice at the old, old (before renovations) Yankee Stadium in 1964, where I shook hands with none other than Mickey Mantle and Tom Tresh - that's it - Yankee fan for life! I lived through the very lean years as a boy, suffering greatly every year as the Yankees had bad teams from the mid-60s until Reggie and Billy Martin's Yankees won.
The last 15 years have been pretty awesome for Yankee fans, and tonight they may return to being World Champions, where they haven't been in quite some time. Obviously the Phillies have a lot to say about that, and a Game 7 could also be in the offing, and all bets are off then.
So, anyway...Yankees in 6? We'll see...the boy in me is extremely excited!
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627 posts 11/4/2009 6:04 am |
You suggested you have ticket(s), plural. Is this the first World Series for your Brazilian date? Or are your Brazilians restricted to the
Florida area?
Ya see, I was anticipating a "fuck post," and now you've thrown a curve ball. Well, may the "boy" enjoy his first clincher. I've been way off with my sports predictions, but I have a feeling this one wraps up tonight..
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11/4/2009 10:59 am |
I just got back from Fl. last night specifically for this - no Braziliamn or any other girl - just my nephew, with whom I have attended many a game over his 22 years. This is neither the time nor event for fucking or dates in my opinion. However, it is a time to commune with my eldest nephew, and to watch him have a few beers and etc. and to just revel in the whole World Series New York electricity...everyone wins...
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