It’s unfortunate, my baseball team The New York Yankees will not be playing for a 27th World Series Championship, but at least the Boston Red Sox will be joining them this year. Matt Garza (Yes, his last name begins with GAR) pitched an awesome game and as a result the Tampa Bay Rays will be in the World Series for the first time in their existence. While it’s cool to see the Rays in the series, I really could care less about them winning it or not. The only reason why me and many Yankees fans rooted for them is we wanted to see Boston fail HARD. After the unfortunate events of 2004 and the 3-1 comeback in 2007, seeing the Red Sox come back from 7-0 in the 7th of game 5 brought back horrible memories. This time, game 7 would not be lucky as inexperience won out.
So, Tampa Bay is getting to become quite a city of champions lately this decade. First it was the NFL’s Bucs in 2003, some hockey team from the nhl in 2004, will it be the Rays in 08? While they are not geographically in the same area, I hope that the Magic eventually get the golden touch of a Larry O’Brien trophy.
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12:42 am – game is over and the Yanks won. Thanks for the memories.
11:27 – Rivera will pitch in the 9th no matter what. Cotton Eye FAIL played for the last time @ YS. Oh BTW, a lot of food ran out. Nothing but beer and water left. CenterPlate is CenterFail like I said before.
10:44 – Sorry, my battery is getting low. I still have a lot of tweets about the game. BTW, there are no games “left” at YS, it is “forever”.
6:44 – The batting pratice stuff is all gone. Field is getting ready for play. Flashbulbs are constantly popping all over.
4:54 pm – yanks just got a huge standing O on the field. Batting pratice is now. People are still in Monument Park.
3:21 pm – I am at my seat. Like John Sterling would say, it is high…really high. I’m in Tier 24, row R. The highest I’ve ever been. A band is on the field!? No, really.
2:37 pm – I walked around monument park and field and it was AMAZING. I got tons of pics of that. I also got interviewed by MLB.com. Maybe I shouldn’t have given out my real name. Off to get food and my seat. Sadly, there are no things to buy to keep my ticket safe. A stub hub envelope is not enough.
1:30 pm – Inside the Stadium. The giveaway is a Penang magnet that says “April 18, 1923-Sept 21, 2008 w/ the final season logo. I also got the program as well.
12:47 pm – Now, a cop is telling us the same thing as the lady. Some misinformed people are pissed off at the news.
12:43 pm – a lady has informed us that people who do not have a ticket are not allowed in. I guess some don’t listen to the media. No video cameras and only diaper bags. At least I have my digtal camera.
12:36 pm – line for gate 2 is wrapping around according to some woman on line.
12:31 pm – at gate 2, we were asked to move back a bit. Getting the tables out for bags. See a lot of vic cameras. Under MLB rules, video is a big no-no. Will they let it slide?
Approx 10 am – I am currently outside of Gate 2 waiting to be admitted. If you didn’t know, we will be allowed to enter the field for about 3 hours from Monument Park. It It’s about 11:30 a.m. Prior to getting my ticket, I walked around the new Stadium and old. The new Yankee Stadium looks really neat and majestic. It looks like they still have a long ways to go inside, but I think they will get it done before Feb.
I managed to see Spike Lee walking around filming with a small video camera. Since I respect celebrities, I don’t bother them at all. Despite the Yankees not playing in the post season this year, right now it is a festive mood. If this were last year, a lot of people probably wouldn’t show up on the final game.
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In little more less than a day from now, the facility that hosted over 9,000 World Series will play it’s final official Major League Baseball game. Much has been documented about the glorious history that Yankee Stadium has achieved in it’s 80+ years. Save those grandiose stories for ESPN and SI. It’s all about the people that experienced them, not some sports writer who is forced to talk about it.
