I’m right there with you. Baseball season will be over as far as I’m concerned if Houston loses. I won’t be watching a minute of the World Series.
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Me either but I’ll be rooting for them.
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My interest would be in not seeing the Rangers win the WS
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Umm, no. I enjoy weeknight games in the middle of the season when I can stretch out. It’s been over two years since that park has been like that. Phillies tickets are pricy and they are not my team. The ballpark is beautiful, though, with the best lighting of any I’ve ever been in. I still “see them often” as I often take dinner at a bar and they are always on, of course. In Philadelphia, many bars extend “happy hour” to include whenever a Philly team is on the TV. So, even when the team sucked a few years back guys at the bar would tell the bartenders to turn them on (for the cheap drinks). I never complained.
I thought you might’ve had some freebies.
We had seats on the 8th row, dead behind home plate. The team sucked and the company could not give them away. I scooped them relentlessly. Then, mgmt noted few customers were going and when Covid hit we gave them back. One of the worst trades we ever made (among many bad trades).
I can’t leave this up because I don’t have permission of my guests, but to give you an idea …
Underneath this section is a giant buffet with a large and proper bar with bartenders in tuxedoes taking your orders and mixing your drinks. My deal with my suppliers was I would get the tickets and they would come into town and pick up the drinks (since I worked for a Mormon and wanted to show a ‘clean sheet’ so to speak). Good, good times.
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My Apache-Cherokee friend always asserts he died with shit in his pants. It’s a very important detail to him.
I always think it’s funny when people talk about the “scrappy” Phillies when they have had a massive payroll for the last few years. They’re not scrappy. They’re a Yankees-lite and only just barely. To wit, 2023 team payrolls:
- N.Y. Mets, $353,546,854
- N.Y. Yankees, $276,999,872
- San Diego, $248,995,932
- Philadelphia, $243,009,439
- L.A. Dodgers, $222,717,834
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Exactly. They’re not scrappy farm hands, splitting meals and playing for the sheer joy, they’re obscenely priced veteran free agents.
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Harper, Wheeler, Realmuto and Turner were elite FAs, regardless the year.
I give them some cleverness-credit for Wheeler as I did hear some suggest they overpaid.
Funny story: so my boss then was a Mormon. When the Phillies signed Harper, that meant $2.8M cash each year (for 13 years) to the local temple. So when the news of the signing hit, I went to my boss and smiled and said “New basketball court for the temple?” and he smiled ear-to-ear.
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You couldn’t call them a scrappy ragtag group or anything but they play with a certain dumb meathead energy that I’m sure would be endearing if they were my home team. But they’re not.
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Dumb meathead energy accurately describes filthadelphia…
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Perhaps, but drive 40 minutes from downtown Philly and the countryside is as beautiful as anywhere in Texas.
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Indeed.
Driven through there a few times.
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Love the Phillies, hate the Phillies, everyone seems to agree they typify their city.
It’s not so much the team, it’s their fans. Same with the Eagles and Flyers.
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Halfway in Philly…Snakes up 3-2
At the Stretch…4-2 DBacks
High drama in the 7th after Schwarber walks.
2 on, 1 out for Phi.
Walks kill.