Headache in a Suitcase said:
so i see you have the same effect on the yankees as i do on the mets?
in the last 15 regular season games i've attended, the mets are 15-0.
in the only 2 post-season games i attended, they lost in the 9th inning on a homerun by some fucking bum.
i hate the cardinals.
I have been to 16 Yankee post-season games.
A lot of ups and downs, some highlights:
Was at Game 2 in 1995, against the Mariners...15 inning game, in the rain with the big Leyritz HR to win..and Mattingly homered, which was awesome.
Was at the Jeffery Maier game in 1996.
Game 6 of the 1996 WS, which they won. Our seats were upperdeck, between the plate and 3B, so, we could not actually see the last out...but the crowd sort of gave it away.
1998 - Was at Game 4 in San Diego, even was on the local news back in MY on NBC, cos I had a broom with me at the game and a Yankee shirt, they talked to me in the parking lot. A female Padre fan asked me how I'd like it if she took the broom and shoved it up my ass and I was kind of torn because it was such an interesting offer.
2000 - Games 1 and 2 of the Subway Series, got to see the Clemens/Piazza incident from way out in RF.
2001 - As I mentioned, watched the Yanks 90's dynasty end, right in my fucking face. Then had to drive back from Phoenix to LA right after the game. 3/4 of the way home, my friend, who is the DJ for the trip, decides it's time for Sade's greatest hits. I'm too tired to even wonder why he owns this, let alones brings it with him on this trip. Not long after he puts it in I almost drive us right off of the freeway because it's 2am and Sade is not exactly perfect driving while exhausted and depressed music.
2002 - Game 3 at Anaheim, series tied at 1-1, get to watch Mussina the playoff chokee pig dog scum tooth piss away a 6-1 lead, all while having those fucking annoying thunder sticks getting waved in my face and banged in my ear, as well as having to deal with the Rally Monkey and Traffic from LA to Anaheim. Swore I'd never go back to a game in Anaheim, regular season or post-season
2005 - Games 1,2 and 5 at Anaheim. Should have kept my vow. Game 1 they win. Game 2, fun times, A-Rod loses a one hop grounder in the sun, leading to unearned run action, and they lose. After winning a close Game 4 in The Bronx, Yanks take an ealy 2-0 lead and Bartolo Colon has to leave game early, in comes Ervin Santana, who decides he is Johan Santana, which is Ervin's real name anyway. Then, Mike Mussina decides this is a good time to piss another early lead away (a pattern that would continue in 2006 against Detroit) and the Yanks go into the 9th down 5-3. Jeter leads off the 9th with a single, typical Jeter. Who's up now? A-Rod! What's he gonna do? Ground into a DP. And broadcasters wonder why Yankee fans hate A-Rod. Yanks then get 2 more men on after that, and Matsui, I believe, makes the last out. And broadcasters wonder why Yankee fans hate A-Rod.
So, overall, I cannot complain, have witnessed 2 WS clinching victories, one in The Bronx and the other down in SD, and those memories will last a lifetime...but, since the Subway Series wins of 2000, the Yanks are 1-7 with me at playoff games. I should stop attending.