The New York Yankees are hoping to wrap up the World Series against the Phillies in Philadelphia Monday night. But if they lose Game 5 and have to go back to the Bronx to finish up the series, they really should get some of the fans from Sunday’s Yankee Stadium game-watching event into the ballpark. Because the Bronx backers at that event - local fans who were just happy to be in the stadium to cheer on their team- were far more enthusiastic and happy to be there than most of the postseason crowds at the stadium so far.
I went to the game-watching event with fellow Faster Times writer Jon Lewin - he’s the Met fan counterpart of Subway Squawkers, our New York City baseball blog. Barbra from Manhattan, one of our readers, joined us (she took the photo of the last pitch of the game, seen at left) . Somewhere close to 10,000 or so Yankee fans were also at the event, where we watched the game on the 100-foot video screen.
The stadium officials let us sit in the field-level seats at the new ballpark, in front of the moat. We got to sit on the third-base line, right by the visitors’ dugout. So we finally got to see what it was like to luxuriate in comfortably cushioned box seats with wooden armrests. Seats were great, cup holders not so much. Two of us suffered overturned soda casualties thanks to poorly-designed holders. At $6 for a Sierra Mist, that hurt! Read more..
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