Well, when I did my ALCS predictions, I did say the Yankees would win in six games. It’s just that I didn’t expect the two losses to be so gut-wrenching! But tonight, everything changes. Tonight, the Yankees are going to win and head to the World Series for the first time since 2003. And I think that Yankee fans are confident that tonight is the night.
How do I know this? Because it was pretty much impossible to find a ticket on StubHub today. All the tickets were sold out on Yankees.com. And the Craigslist ads today consisted either of people desperately seeking tickets, or of ticket brokers attempting to sell tickets at an exorbitant rate.
Compare and contrast to 2004, when I was able to buy Game 6 tickets from a Yankees fan for face value – the fan apparently had no faith the Yankees would win. At least that fan sold to a fellow Bomber rooter. On the other hand, A lot of Yankee fans who figured the Sox would win sold their tickets to Red Sox fans. I was also at Game 7 that year – I had bought my ticket as soon as they went on sale – and I unfortunately stayed until the bitter end. There were maybe 20,000 people left in the ballpark at the end – and about 90% of them were Sox fans!
Anyhow, this is my roundabout way of saying that this isn’t 2004 anymore – for one thing, Andy Pettitte and CC Sabathia sure beat Jon Lieber and Kevin Brown! And I think the team doesn’t feel fatalistic, the way they did in 2004.
So, I’ll be watching at home – I had no luck getting a ticket – and in about five hours, I should be writing a victory post!
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