flashback: october 13, 1999

ten years ago, i was sitting in yankee stadium. m-guydrive was there, i believe his sister as well. it was the alcs game 1, we sat on the first base side of the outfield. the yankees were facing the dreaded red sox. games between the yankees and red sox notoriously took forever. earlier that season we sat through a five hour marathon. this night would be no different.

orlando hernandez was on the mound for the yanks, i don't remember who pitched for boston. after a little fluke, el duque pitched his heart. but boston built up a 3-0 lead by the second inning and the yanks spent the rest of the game playing catch up. they tied it in the seventh with small ball. the already long game went into extra innings.

in the bottom of the 10th on the first pitch, bernie williams hit a deep home run to dead center. we knew it from the crack of the back. (burn baby burn). we rejoiced and took the train back home.

tickets then were easier to come by. we were already at a game in the alds, p-42eldridge was taken to the holding room because he pegged an indian fan's eye with a peanut. we would also make it to game 2 alcs, yanks win 3-2 (?).

life before stub hub, there wasn't as much blatant scalping. now people try there luck on ticketmaster just to turn around tickets onto stub hub. i thought about turning a $120 dollar profit on my single ticket for the game, i quickly gave up that idea.

available alcs tickets now are a $406 ticket and a $1056 ticket. i i.m. y-twokicks whether they were worth it, even though i know the answer. i did find a $39 ticket in the back on right field... in california.

i spoke with t-bgst earlier today, he lives in denver and was at the last two alds rockies games, $40 total.

i've become a grumpy old man.

maybe i will get tickets from the world series lottery to be a kid again.