Little did we suspect when we acquired tickets for the July 4 Mets/Yankees game that we’d be walking into the first potential sweep by the Mets of their high-salaried rivals…and on Steinbrenner’s birthday, yet.
However Caroline was running a slight fever this morning, so Kathleen insisted that Ariel and I go and she would stay home with the munchkin. With two tickets available, our dauntless webmaster Glenn and his mildly interested wife, Brandy, accompanied us.
If the word “suck” did not exist, people would have been mute.
Mets fans outnumbered Yankees fans by about four to one, yet somehow it was the ultimate exercise in free speech. Yankee fans would chant “LET’S go YANkees” and Mets fans would rebut, “YAN-KEES SUCK!” Neither group tried to overshout the other or yell at the same time. They took turns. Bizarre…almost as bizarre as the strange woman five rows away who was missing several prominent teeth and kept dissing the Mets while waving a Phillies cap in people’s faces (leading me to take an educated guess as to where her teeth went.)
It was a wild ride, ending in a 6-5 Mets win. Both Keith DeCandido (a Yankees fan) and Bob Greenberger (a Mets fan) were also in attendance. We never spotted them, but didn’t have to. Glenn simply called Keith on his cell phone and the moment he answered, we started shouting “Yankees SUCK!” into the phone.
A good, if wholly immature time, was had by all.
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