Monday, March 31, 2008

Am I at Yankee Stadium?

This past Friday the wife and I went to Dolphin Stadium to catch a Yankees v Marlins game. Our seats were pretty good, on the second tier just below the luxery boxes. Unfortunately the Yankees lost the game but thats not the point of this post. The really weird thing about the game was that it felt like Yankee Stadium rather than Dolphin Stadium.

Sounds strange doesn't it? Heres a bit of evidence for ya! First clue was the parking attendant. I was wearing my blue batters jersey and my wife wore a blue Yankee hat. The parking attendent made this comment that so far he had only seen 3 Marlins fans pull in. OK kinda odd, so I pull into the parking lot and see quite a few people tailgating which isn't unusual except they were all wearing Yankee shirts. HA! Going towards our seating area, its just a sea of Jeter and Rodriguez shirts and jerseys. Am I really in Florida right now??? Then during the game just hearing the cheering for the Yankees drown out the pitiful attempts by Marlin fans is just too hysterical. The amount of cheers for Jeter alone were just overwhelming. I didn't hear one Marlin get that sort of cheer the whole game.

So the Yankees lost but not a big deal, it was spring training and they won the day after against the Marlins anyway. Even exiting the stadium was funny. There were Marlin (go fish! LOL) fans here and there in the rolling sea of Yankee blue......

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