Last week was pretty cool at the office. We have met a lot of people and tried a few places to eat. The company (Jad actually) even gave us tickets to a baseball game! Baseball is this totally national game that we do not even care about in France, but in the United States, people are crazy of it. I mean, soccer is a famous sport in France, but we do not attach anything patriotic to the game. Well, they do. There were American flags everywhere in the stadium.
The game happened in the old Yankee Stadium — a new one is being built just nearby — and teams were New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays. We were told that a baseball game is about three hours so we just came to see the last innings. First, we had trouble getting to the stadium since the subway lines do not work the same on week-ends. Then, we did not know that we could not bring any bag inside the stadium, probably for another stupid security reason, so we dropped our bags in the next bowling for five bucks. Damn, what a business! I also tried a icky hot dog. We finally entered the stadium for the last 30 minutes.
Simian Mobile Disco – Hotdog (2007):
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I did not know anything about the rules so Pauline tried to explain me, but I think I still do not get everything about baseball. Apparently, Yankees had not even scored yet. Behind ourselves were a complete team of Rays supporters. Completely drunk but fun, they were yelling every time something happened. Hopefully for us, baseball is a very long game, and you wait a lot to see something happening. They never hit the ball. We actually had the chance to see a home run by the Yankees! I must tell that this is absolutely awesome, and I totally loved when the whole stadium stood up and shouted out.
Make some noise!
Here is someone famous. Maybe from TV, I guess. He walked up in the stands looking for supporters to interview.
Finally, Yankees lost and I still prefer basketball, but this was a pretty nice American-style afternoon. Next time, we will see if we can have some NBA or NHL tickets. See you!