Last night, when the Phils battled the Nats, it was threatening rain; we had some good beer after a horrible week at work; we finally tried The Schmitter; we sat in no man’s land; Kathy O read Casey; Matt got a new hat; we took some self portraits; the seats were wet; I snuck some photos of Matt; Julius came out to play; I discovered my Phashion sense; Matt tried to take a decent photo of me; and the night was nice, factories and all.
The end.
Ever. Monday night’s game was thrilling. I’m glad I forced Matt not to leave in the 8th inning.
Warmup:
Jayson and Shane (we’re on a first name basis. And I wasn’t that close to the field. I zoomed way in.):
Dollar Dog Night (I had one, Matt had three):
Phanatic and Hatfield Pig:
Jayson is 6 foot 5. I’m surprised he doesn’t crouch down more when he is at bat to make his strike zone smaller:
And the Phils come from behind for a win once again:
Self portrait of happy phans:
Click here for my other blog post on the game.
Tonight was our first “scheduled” Phillies game of the season. Dollar Dog Night. I was super excited. It started raining at around 9:00 this morning and continued throughout the day. By 5:00, when Matt came to get me at work, the game was still on, but by the time we drove down to the stadium by 6:00, the game was canceled. I was disappointed but relieved because it was cold and miserable and yucky. So we took advantage of already being in South Philly by exchanging tonight’s tickets for next Monday (also Dollar Dog Night) and using some of our gift certificates (that can only be used at the stadium box office–stupidest rule ever) to get tickets to two additional games. Score! And we have enough left to get either cheap seats for two more games, or great seats for one more game. We are leaning towards the great seats some time mid-summer.
Edit: Miss M. Boat to He**–I just realized that we are seeing the Phils play the Nats twice. That was completely by accident.
I am posting this in honor of the Phillies’ 12-11 win on Wednesday.
The World Series Trophy visited Temple today–fun!
Go Phils–let’s make it two years in a row!
Matt and I went to the Phillies Parade during my lunch hour on Friday and didn’t see anything but excited Phans!
Racing from North Philly to get to the parade:
Along the way:
Phans:
The best seats:
Racing back to North Philly:
SEPTA. This sign at Temple lies. The trains actually were full and not stopping. Some people had been there for 3 hours and the police had to come up to keep the peace. Luckily, I snuck on an Express and Matt picked me up at Fern Rock, where there were more stranded Phans. Not good.
World Fricking Champions.
And my own virtual log of the Phillies win, a list of stories and articles.
Phillies relish first World Series title in 28 years
Philadelphia finally gets another title
After waiting two days, Philadelphia wins second championship
After painful wait, Phillies win World Series
I will keep adding to this…and I hope none of the links go bad.
Yay Phils!
Because what the nation really should be concerned with is post-season baseball, I’d like to share an article written by a good friend at The Philadelphia Turkey:
Phllies Not Intimidated by Torre’s Nose
Go Phillies! And to quote one of my current favorite articles in the Philadelphia Weekly:
“Our time should be taken up with nothing ‘cept J-Roll and Utley and freakin’ Ryan Howard.
Division champs!
Time should stop here.
Should, but doesn’t.
Instead …
Did you make your quota? Land that account? Come up with cost cutting measures? Hit that deadline?”
Let’s all just get our priorities straight. If you boo for the Dodgers, then go ahead and boo at the debates as well. Boo at the poor media coverage. Boo at Wall Street. Boo at the kids who come to your doorstep on Halloween. Get in the spirit of the season!
On Saturday I took the train down to Wilmington (Delaware) to meet with my two best friends from 7th grade. We met in 1989 at the American School in Japan and were pretty much inseparable that year, and many years after. Recently we all ended up being within an hour’s drive of each other, so we planned a low-key reunion in Wilmington. It was so nice, and nostalgic, seeing Hilary and Katie again. We actually talked about “grown up things,” which felt strange but comforting.
1989-1990:
Katie and Hilary in 1989-1990
2008:
Peace in 2008!
Then I met Matt at the Phillies Game. Excellent game!! We got there a little early, I changed out of my “lunch” clothes, and we hung out at McFaddens for a little while. It was a beautiful night for a ballgame. It was the 13th straight sold out home game in a row! Go Phillies! I joked that I was going to get one of those fabric pens and write “Eisenreich” on the back of my new Phillies shirt, for sentimental reasons.
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