A Busy Friday Night
It was a pretty slow Friday morning-afternoon, just me working from home on my couch.
But Henry and I grabbed a quick dinner at Kodama of some fresh sushi (the scallop roll with spicy mayo was very good, it’s not on the menu). We met up with Ben and her co-worker Judy, who actually had the Yankee tickets. Much thanks to Judy for inviting us to go to the game. We got on the B train and were on our way to the game. But then the train was going really slowly and kept on stopping, but the conductor kept saying we were going to Yankee Stadium, so we “thought” we were ok. But then we pull into the 145th Street station, except we are on the side going back to Manhattan. Apparently the B train was not going to be going to Yankee Stadium.
We went up two flights of stairs and down to flights of stairs to get on the platform that was going to Yankee Stadium. We wait awhile and a train comes, but when it stops, it makes that noise that signals that this station will be the last stop and of course it was. We are told that there are no B trains going any farther and that we had to take some bus to somewhere else. We are disgruntled and when we get to street level, the bus stop isn’t even right there. We follow the hordes of Yankee jerseys and baseball caps and end up walking to the stadium. It wasn’t too bad.
We finally get to our seats and the game is on the top of the third inning and Tampa Bay was winning already. It doesn’t get much better. Carlos Peña scored two home runs! A guy scores, who should have been out at the plate and when Jorge Posada threw to first to throw out the guy going between first and second, the guy on first didn’t catch the ball and another run scored too. It was infuriating! We finally left in the middle of the top of the 8th. After getting home we found out it got even worse, Yankees lost 9-1. Ugh! But I think the Red Sox and Seattle Mariners also lost.
On the way home, we walked down 42nd Street and since we’ve been trying to watch Superbad I suggested we catch a flick, if the showtime worked out. It did, we had about 30 minutes before the 10:50pm showing started. It was freaken hilarious! But that’ll be another post.