My eyes snapped open. I jumped out of the unfamiliar bed. Got dressed and looked at the time. It was 6:00am and I wasn't starting my trip for like another two hours. I finished getting ready and went out to the living room in Daryl and Sarah's house. Yes...I am 32 years old and I still have sleepovers at my friends house. But it was for a good reason. Daryl and I (Both Yankee fans) were driving down to the Bronx to see the brandy new Yankee Stadium. More on that later. As I got to the living room I wondered what was on TV. As I am not familiar with Comcast I went directly to their on demand menu and found the movie Phantasm II. Which I have never seen. I know what it is basically about but I have never seen any of the movies by that name....I think they made like four of them. I must not have been in the mood to watch it because about a half hour in I changed it to John Tucker must die. Which is probably in the categories of a teenie bopper movie but it is actually a pretty good movie.
While watching that movie it took me till about 8:00am when I heard my friend Daryl moving around on the upper floor of his house. (Damn, so far this blog entry is pretty boring...hopefully it gets better) He came downstairs we checked the weather down in New York...which was a perfect 69 degrees and partly cloudy. Around 8:20 we hopped in his truck and headed to a local coffee shop. I got my usual Large Caramel Ice Coffee XX and a couple of donuts and an orange juice. We finally began our journey. We tried a new route to avoid traffic the conversation was awesome we talked about the Yankees of course and some current events. I'm not so good with current events talk....those of you who know me know that I would rather watch a movie then the news....the news is just so depressing. I am working on it though.
When we got to the stadium we parked in an underground parking garage walked into a bar and had a beer a burger and some fries. I had been in this bar before it is a combo of a bar/diner/bowling alley. It's actually pretty cool. Now I'm not sure on the educate but there was a man in the bathroom who works there and in movies these guys usually give you soap or cologne and other stuff. All this guy did was hand me a paper towel after I washed my hands I didn't tip. I don't think he did enough to deserve a tip. Hope I didn't offend him. We had a burger and a beer and then we went to some shops to look for souvenirs. I found some stuff that I wanted to buy for Cody but I figured he would be coming to Yankee Stadium in a couple of months anyways so me and Carla can buy him something then. This also saves me from getting in trouble for spending too much.
After that Daryl and I entered the new Yankee Stadium. It was amazing...it was really close to a religious experience for me. I think for him too although I don't want to speak for him. It is awesome you can finally walk around the entire stadium from the inside. I know most stadiums are like that but old Yankee Stadium was not. This place was incredible. You could get anything from sausages to sushi to eat. The beer stands were plentiful and the place was so freaking clean and roomy. We walked around and looked at everything. The Yankees really did it right. I had recently been to the new Citi Field(the home of the NY Mets) and it doesn't' compare to the new Yankee Stadium. I even got to walk into the new Monument Park (for free) something I never got to do at the old stadium. Mariano Rivera waved to me from the Field when I was in Monument Park. It was so cool...somebody stop me before I gush like a little girl.
From there we went to our seats looked out onto the field and sat in silence for a bit. It was gorgeous. I was proud to be a Yankee Fan. After a bit we walked around again to get a cup of beer. We got souvenir cups for $10. We got back to the seats and in 15 minutes the game began. If I remember right in the first inning (it might have been the 2nd) Phillies went up 1 to nothing. But in the bottom of the inning the Yankees came back with a run to tie it up. In about the 3rd or 4th a rookie, first game ever played, hits a 3run shot to left field. He hit his first major league homer at Yankee stadium and come to find out his father hit his last career home run in the old Yankee Stadium in 1982. That's a pretty cool fun fact. A bit later the Captain Derek Jeter slammed the ball into the left field seats to make the score 4 to 2 Phillies. About this time was when a really dumb Phillies fan and a really dumb Yankees Fan began to argue from about 30 feet and 4 rows away. Usually I would love the banter but these to scholars were not creative at all. It was like watching two 5 year olds arguing about which tv show was better Blues clues or Sesame Street. I heard such words as Asshole, Fag, Herpes face, and multiple F bombs. As the game went on the yelling got louder and more people got involved. Soon the Phillies fans were asked to leave and they had a Yankees fan with them too. This was a little girl who was the biggest problem of all she was yelling and began pushing the cop away from her after the cop gave her multiple warnings. It definitely was entertaining.
In the bottom of the ninth it wasn't looking very good. We were still down by 2 runs and I wasn't feeling optimistic. I think this is how it happened my mind is foggy. Johnny Damon Walked. Then Mark Teixiera made an out. and up came captain not so clutch A-Rod. He ripped a 2 run blast to Right field. Ok Ok the supposed wind tunnel took A-Rod's pop fly into the seats. Which ever it was the game was now tied at 4 runs a piece. Next up was Robinson Cano somehow he got on base I can't remember. Then he stole second base and Melky Cabrera hit the game winning walk off single to center field. It was amazing. I haven't' yelled so loud in a long time. It was pandemonium.
All in all it was a great day. The Yankees won and the Mets beat the Red Sox.
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