The combination of the Mets looking like they have a legitimate shot at winning the World Series this year and Isaac playing (and me coaching) tee ball, has me into baseball like I haven’t been since I was a kid. The only difference is the amount of money I’ve spent on baseball-related stuff this year, including: a 5-ticket nosebleed seat plan for Mets games, plus the Autism Awareness Day Game; new Mets jerseys for Isaac and I, as well as t-shirts for Salomé and India; a new Mets bookbag for Isaac; baseball cards for the tee ball kids, plus all of Isaac’s and my accessories…
Yeah, I broke down and bought a Marlins jersey on Ebay — Delgado, in black — to go with my Coach’s cap on Tee Ball Saturdays! Shut up!
And now, earlier today, I got an email from the Mets that I’d been selected for their Subway Series 2nd Chance Ticket Purchase Opportunity, offering a chance to get up to six tickets to next weekend’s dustup with the Yankees! Outside of season ticket holders and certain ticket packages that were too expensive for me, getting Subway Series tickets is difficult, so I clicked through the Friday and Sunday games and found two great Upper Deck Box seats and called Dan to see if he could make the game, which of course he could, because any real Met or Yankee fan is required by law to drop everything when a chance to go to one of these games pops up! You get your fan card pulled otherwise.
Throw my fantasy baseball team into the mix and it’s going to be an exciting spring and summer of baseball, hopefully capped off by the Mets nailing down October with a six-game World Series victory over…whomever! I’m not predicting a sweep simply because I want the Championship celebrated on our home turf.
In tee ball tomorrow, we take on the Pee Wee Yankees for the first time — the Mets were last weekend, and, coincidentally, were probably the best overall team we’ve faced so far — and we bought a digital video camera last week so we can tape it for posterity. The kids are starting to separate a little bit, with the clearly talented ones standing out more and more each week, so the next few games should be a lot of fun. I’m hoping to be able to edit together footage from the next three games to give them each a copy as a gift at the last game, when they’ll also receive their trophies. They’ve loved the baseball cards I’ve given them the past few weeks, and I’ve got a bunch of comics Midtown donated that I’ll give out this weekend, but the DVD should be something both they and their parents will really appreciate.
I know I wish I had mementos like that from my childhood, so I definitely want to have them for Isaac and India as they get older. That commercial with the parents bathing the teenager in the kitchen sink is hilarious and on-point…though maybe not terribly effective since I can’t remember what it was promoting!
