Patrick and his girlfriend Sarah flew to New York tonight from Fort Worth, via Atlanta.
He just texted me that they had just landed at LaGuardia airport after flying over Yankee Stadium during the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 6 of the World Series between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees were winning 7-3 at the time.
They are, if I remember correctly, staying with friends in the Bushwick part of Brooklyn, which has experienced a rebirth of sorts during the “aughts decade.” (By the way, we can start saying “twenty-ten” next year instead of the seemingly longer “two-thousand-eight” or “two-thousand-nine.”)
Anyway, the kids will be up there through the weekend. Patrick has been to NYC before; Sarah has not.
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My wife Nancy and I picked up our hobbled friend Joe Henning for supper on Saturday evening. We tried Touchdown Sally’s, the new sports bar/restaurant on the westbound service road north of Interstate 30 in Benton, where Weng’s was located for the past few years.
(Joe was struck by a truck while walking to the Benton Public Library a couple of months ago. He’s recovering, but it’s been slow.)
It was fun and the cheeseburgers were good. We watched the Razorbacks run up a 42-0 halftime lead over Eastern Michigan on one end of room while waiting for the rain to stop before Game 3 of the World Series on the television at the other end.
Our server Brandon was dressed all in black on that Halloween night with a U.S. postage stamp cut from felt glued to his shirt — blackmail! It was clever, but his attractive wife, Hayley, who was seated nearby, had to tell us what he was supposed to be.
It’s a comfortable, family-style atmosphere and Mike Robinson and his partners have done a great job of getting the place off to a good start.
We figure that the place will be rockin’ tonight with former Razorbacks pitcher Cliff Lee of Benton pitching for the Phillies against North Little Rock native A.J. Burnett of the Yankees. With New York up three games to one in the World Series, it’s a must-win situation for defending champion Philadelphia.
Party on, Benton!
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When Philadelphia hitter Chase Utley was ruled safe at first in the ninth inning of Phillies-Rockies frigid NLDS game in Denver early Monday (CT), the ump making the sign that first baseman Todd Helton was pulled off the bag by pitcher Huston Street’s throw, TBS announcers Brian Anderson and Joe Simpson barely mentioned that it appeared that the ball may have hit Utley in the batter’s box.
If it did hit him, the ball should have been ruled foul.
They never mentioned that Utley ran down the edge of the grass along the baseline, never entering the area marked as a runner’s lane until he got to first base. If his running outside the lane prevented Street from making a good throw, the umpire could have called him out.
Utley moved the runner ahead of him to third, thus allowing him to score on the fly ball by the next hitter up, Ryan Howard. That turned out to be the go-ahead and eventual winning run.
I don’t know if either was the case, but the announcers should have done more “investigating” with replays than they did. It may have meant the difference in the game.
In either case, the TBS announcers seemed to have the attitude of “it’s late, let’s not make too much of a fuss about it.” Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe they just didn’t pay attention.
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