I'm leaving today (well actually Thursday 8-19-10 till Monday 8-23-10)
A couple of my friends and I are going to NYC this Thursday through Monday. We are all going for different reasons. My 2 buddys are going MOSTLY because we are going to 2 Yankees games (friday and sunday) but they want to do some of the normal "tourism" stuff too that comes with a trip to NYC, but baseball is thier main motivator for the trip..
I am going for the tourism stuff (central park, times square, grand central station, ESPN zone, M&M world LOL, a real NY style pizzeria, and a few other Misc. things)and not so much the Yankees stuff. Actually I think baseball is the most boring game on the face of the earth. I am in my mid 30's and I have tried since i was a teenager over and over again to like it, (because many of my friends love it) but I just cant do it. Basically here is how i see the game.
1. Pitch
2. Swing and a miss
3. Catcher catches it and throws it back to the pitcher.
4. Rinse, Repeat
It seems to me that one out of every 50 pitches you actually see some action, i mean a real honest to God hit......Give me a good Sabres, or Bills game and I am a happy man. For that matter, and this is going to not make any sense to anyone, but I can watch 6 hours of Golf on TV and be on the edge of my seat yelling at the TV just like I would during a Sabres/Bills game :) And believe me, I know what most people think of golf :)
It will be interesting to see if actually being at a real live baseball game (which is something I have never done) will change my mind about the sport. I know I will love it because I absolutely LOVE live sporting events (Sabres, Bills) so even though every ounce of my being would rather watch the paint drying channel instead of a ball game, I am still for some strange reason REALLY looking forward to the 2 live Yankees games :)
