Thanks to a promotion by the Dominican American National Roundtable, I took Papi and my babies to the Mets game last night.
If you look at my Twitter updates you can see my play-by-play of all the action, but long story short- we WON, 5-4 in the 11th inning. And best of all... my boyfriend Johan Santana was the starting pitcher, PLUS he got a base hit!!
While I recognize that Shea is one of the UGLIEST baseball stadiums on the planet, I'm sad to see it go *sniffle* I saw my first game there oh so long ago- I was in junior high on a class trip; I forget who we played but it went into overtime and the chaperone decided we had to leave early. Did we win- that I can't remember. It was either something like we were winning in the 11th inning as we left the stadium, but when I got home and checked the score we'd lost, or vice versa. I love my Mets, but knowing them, it might have been the former ;)
Either way, here's my visual account of the game:
Johan, the love of my life
Beltran, the other love of my life
The big board
The beautiful field of dreams
One of my famous, shiteous crop jobs with the Minolta
N and her mismatched socks (I can't get her to stop doing that, so I don't even bother anymore)
N and her "crazy eyes"... I can't get her to stop doing that, either!
The Pirates scored right out the box... we were not amused...
But then we came back and took the lead, and it was all smiles
However, it was, umm, roughly -2.7 degrees outside, so we left at the top of the 6th. We tried to wait until the seventh inning stretch, but I was dealing with an elderly man and a young girl- not cool to let them get cold. But it's okay, though. I'll be back.
We've already planned to attend the May 29th home game, and maybe even the July 25th game that includes... wait for it... MERENGUE NIGHT!!!
Anyone care to join us?
*smooches...glad that I resisted the urge to sneak into the locker room to molest Johan and Carlos*
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but really the only thing that stopped me was the fact that Papi would have never allowed it...
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Title courtesy of Jack Norworth, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"
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I'm not much of a baseball fan, though, I do enjoy watching it in person. I actually passed Shea Stadium during my stint in NY. It makes me glad to know that I have physically seen history.
cubs fan here. yeah i know. lol. this could be the year though.
that is a beautiful shot of the field of dreams. my daughter does the crazy eyes for the camera thing as well. kids...
I am not into baseball. I will root for my hometeam, Go Tigers! LOL.
It was nice you had 3 generations enjoying the game.
GO METS! My sons first game was last years subway series! Trying to raise him right (even though his dad is a yankee fan...tense household during baseball season).We just went to the Phillies series but don't have any other games planned until 7/9
I'll do the 29th game too.
Merengue Night!!!!?!?!? WTF I want in
The girls are so beautimonous!
I've never been to a baseball game and I've never hear of a Merengue night at a baseball stadium, but that sounds like fun.
dont follow baseball but i do understand a good looking man
yessir i do
lol
Whatchu say!...Shea doesn't have a bad seat in the staduim. I love Shea...
@jewells- Shea is a part of history, and I'm a lil peeved that the city is making a bigger hoopla about "The House that Ruth Built" than they are about my beloved Mets.
And YES, I know, the Yankees have won more championships, but that doesn't mean we should treat the Mets like the red-headed step-child of NYC!!
@don- this can't the Cubs' year because it's the Mets' year. Sorry, boo ;)
@shai- it was nice to take my Papi to a game; he enjoyed it.
@The F$%K it List- when I get the invite for the 5/29 game I'll alert you. Tix were like $10!!
and I know all about the tension... my sister AND ex-husband = Yankee Fans. BOOOOOO
@qucifer- YES, GURL! You should come up! I'm not sure of the line-up yet but I hear it's always a sold out night!
@homer- well then feel free to join us up in the cheap-seats on the 29th; merengue night is one of the biggest attractions at Shea (besides subway series' games)... it's a lot of fun, I hear...
@dejanae- good looking men is what got me into the mets to begin with... can we say, Keith Hernandez? OH YEAH! In '86 he was a super-hot hottie; not too shabby today, either, LOL!!
@blah blah blah- I was so surprised at the great view we had from the nosebleeds! I'll never pay full price again! lol
You took beloved Papi to a METS game!?!
And here you would have us all thinking you loved him.
LOL!
LET'S GO YANKEES!!!
HEY! he had a good time and we WON!!
:P
@Irene BOOOOO
Yes let me know, I will be there in all my dancing glory!
I had a colleague also a Mets fan (with corporate seats) tell me that I should look into divorce because of the Yankee fan I called husband HAHA
Looks like you had fun. Merengue night? You're so Dominican ha! oh yeah and you know I'm going to kill K with her mismatch socks!!! no wonder I can't find my socks!
@minnie- are those your socks? LMAO!!!! my girls be thievin'
HA HA HA HA!!!
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