If you are one of our readers from previous years you will notice this looks pretty much exactly like many of our others. I suppose that's good; maybe we haven't aged much in the last two years? Notice I didn't specify WHICH birthday Kris celebrated the other day? She is younger than me, is all I'll say. But not much.I don't know what Kris was talking about with the rude fans - I thought everyone we encountered was surprisingly friendly and the staff at Yankee Stadium was extremely helpful. (When she gave me examples I did recall some obnoxious drivers, though, and the rude chick she ran into I didn't encounter because I was taking a picture for a group at the moment, which is what the chick was annoyed about but she should chillax, man). But we took full advantage of the staff with their "How can I help you?" shirts and fans by asking each one along the path to pick up our tickets and then to our seats in the folding chair row in the bleachers (awesome, by the way, and cheap) where to go next. And then there were the dudes who helped me when I was out of quarters for the smashed-penny machine (my boys collect them) by giving me quarters and refusing to take my equivalent money for them. It cost a dollar! Everywhere else in the world I've done those it was only 50 cents, yeesh. So after I already took a quarter from him, I actually was ill-mannered enough myself to ask him for more. The crowd's rudeness was kind of traditional. The guy wearing the Red Sox stuff was looking for trouble, I imagine.
Here's a photo of the Cubs flag - they fly both AL and NL teams' flags in order of league standings. Unfortunately, the Cubs hadn't won their game yet so St. Louis was still ahead of it:
Half game up, baby!
Tomorrow night, the Mets. Now, when we went to Shea, I found everyone we encountered to be very rude - maybe their new stadium has improved their attitudes? We shall see.
What do you mean that photo looks pretty much exactly like many of your others?
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