While playoff baseball itself can be entertaining, the experience is that much more when you are able to share it with others.
So it was, last night, when ten of us crowded into Blondie’s on 79th and Amsterdam. Well, originally it was ten, but the number grew as friends found themselves in the right place at the right time.
I’ve been in bars before, watched games on tvs before, but never like this–never a World Series game for my team, in a bar, on Halloween, on a Saturday night.
All it takes is the right thing happening at the right time–such was the case.
Man, we were loud.
Between chanting Let’s Go Yankees, demanding that A-Rod’s home run be called, well, a home run, and singing along to Enter Sandman (yes, they played it as Mo walked in from the bullpen), you may have thought that we were there, at Citizen’s Bank Park, watching.
Well, that or that we were all very drunk.
After you watch this video, you’ll probably think it was the latter:
[Warning: We are not good singers. Please do not play this video in front of your music class or anyone whose ears you would like to protect.]
(Photos are credit: Amanda Rykoff and Rebecca Glass. Video credit: Rebecca Glass)