Back-to-Back Baseball Games
The week past I ran two different group outings on successive days to Citifield. Both teams on the field represented New York.
The first eve, we also raised some money for a Foundation I served as President for a two-year stint.
The second eve, for this networking group, I connected some folks who might benefit from the introduction.
I enjoyed both games, despite my team losing both games; a rarity for this ultra-competitive sports enthusiast.
Dining out last night with three other couples who attended the first game, I mused whether it might be better to run both outings on the same eve next time (Of course I received no advisory on 2018 as of this writing, even though one of the two gets billed as an annual outing.).
Perhaps knowing how depleted my team entered their two home games at Citifield – including with my current fave player out those games – numbed me somewhat to the outcomes. I always argue that lineups (“batting orders”) make a difference but missing a key link in that lineup often makes a bigger difference (Perhaps a blog for another day?).
Bottom line, a good experience hanging with so many friends. I think I see myself doing it again.
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Many Thanks Corey for putting it together again!
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Second, I am not sure I am recalling correctly, but I am reminiscing about classy, clutch Curtis Granderson (beloved by Gothamites of all stripes, literally and figuratively) and his ninth-inning, walk-off Grand-erson Slam. At least that is how I am choosing to remember it.
Third, let us spend a moment on Granderson (who, I hope, earns a ring as he helps the Dodgers beat the Indians in the year's World Series) who may just have played his last game as a Met (which I hope he hasn't, as we need him back next year), in which case his last at-bat with the Mets would have been that Grand Slam vs. the Yankees.
On a team where almost everyone gets hurt and not a few are hot dogs of various varieties, Granderson, both on and off the field, has been there for his team and for his teammates, every day, all the time, always the same Granderson, even when out of his comfort zone, such as manning CF long past when he should have been asked to do so. And in the clutch moments of pennant races and in the World Series (where he hit three homers for us), Granderson has been the one constant these four years he's been with us. Has he had his share of baseball ups and down and slumps? Yes, of course, but he was always there for us when needed most and there is no World Series run without him.
Mets are fortunate Yankees elected to let him go. Granderson has been a terrific Met and missed if he doesn't return, but here's to hoping he returns to New York as player, as coach, as charitable fundraiser, in some capacity.
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