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Sainters7 · 10-17-2006, 07:16 PM

DEFINITELY see a baseball game at Yankee Stadium! We were there back in August 2002 and caught a Friday night Yankees/A's game, when they were 1-2 in the AL. WHAT...AN...ATMOSPHERE! Takin the Subway through to the Bronx, so much fun. And I loved the crowd. One guy trying to get people to guess the attendence actually told me to "Get atta heere' ", and he was serious haha, he was actually mad at me. Awesome! At one part a few people in our section started doing the wave, so we joined in. Suddenly this guy in a Yankees jersey, with a really thick NY accent, turned around and said to us "That s*** is Shea!"(Shea Stadium, where the Mets play). In other words, cut that crap out, thats what Mets fans do. It was 2-0 Oakland in the bottom of the ninth, with runners on 2nd and 3rd for the Yankees, and Bernie Williams hit a beeeautiful shot to centrefield which tied the game. I didnt even know a crowd could get that loud for baseball. What a moment!

The view is fantastic too, you can see all the buildings in the backdrop. Overall we spent four days in New York, and 33 days touring the United States, and that was arguably my favourite moment of the entire trip. I highly recommend it.

We mostly did the touristy things too, like saw the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park, Times Square(which was a five minute walk from our hotel), Yankee Stadium as I mentioned, Ground Zero(it was under a year since 9/11 at that point, so they were still doing construction on it. It was surreal)...my friends even took in a Regis and Kelly show haha. Awesome time down in NYC.

10-17-2006, 07:16 PM	#9
Sainters7 Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: back in the 403 Exp:	DEFINITELY see a baseball game at Yankee Stadium! We were there back in August 2002 and caught a Friday night Yankees/A's game, when they were 1-2 in the AL. WHAT...AN...ATMOSPHERE! Takin the Subway through to the Bronx, so much fun. And I loved the crowd. One guy trying to get people to guess the attendence actually told me to "Get atta heere' ", and he was serious haha, he was actually mad at me. Awesome! At one part a few people in our section started doing the wave, so we joined in. Suddenly this guy in a Yankees jersey, with a really thick NY accent, turned around and said to us "That s*** is Shea!"(Shea Stadium, where the Mets play). In other words, cut that crap out, thats what Mets fans do. It was 2-0 Oakland in the bottom of the ninth, with runners on 2nd and 3rd for the Yankees, and Bernie Williams hit a beeeautiful shot to centrefield which tied the game. I didnt even know a crowd could get that loud for baseball. What a moment! The view is fantastic too, you can see all the buildings in the backdrop. Overall we spent four days in New York, and 33 days touring the United States, and that was arguably my favourite moment of the entire trip. I highly recommend it. We mostly did the touristy things too, like saw the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park, Times Square(which was a five minute walk from our hotel), Yankee Stadium as I mentioned, Ground Zero(it was under a year since 9/11 at that point, so they were still doing construction on it. It was surreal)...my friends even took in a Regis and Kelly show haha. Awesome time down in NYC. Last edited by Sainters7; 10-17-2006 at 07:19 PM.