Yesterday afternoon I rolled out to the Burton preview with Jeff Carvalho of Weekly Drop. Burton and company are in the midst of showcasing their next deliveries, which includes amazing product like some outerwear designed by Chuck Anderson and another great collection by Idiom, as well as some cool stuff from Habitat and Alien Workshop. After checking out lots of stuff we (unfortunately) won’t be able to get our hands on for a while longer, Tim Brodhagen extended a very gracious invite to roll up to the Bronx to check out the Yankees play the Red Sox at (the soon to be retired) Yankee Stadium. Granted the rivalry between these two teams is the stuff of legend, not much would have prepared me for the chaos I witnessed last night at Yankee Stadium. Maybe I haven’t been going to enough sporting events lately, but with the Yankees and the Red Sox still pretty much neck and neck during the 7th inning, there were consistent pockets of people all around us in various stages of being ejected from the stadium and/or arrested. Literally dozens of people being cuffed and escorted away, with random brawls breaking out between innings at the concession stand and bathrooms. Though some would blame alcohol for all the anarchy, at $8.50 for a can of Coors Light, I’m going to have to have to lay blame on thousands upon thousands of over zealous fans and the mob mentality that seemed to be possessing a huge grip of them. Though just before the 8th, Jeff, Tim and I came close to getting into a brawl with some belligerent Red Sox fans (and one of their drunk girlfriends), it was a really fun time and I enjoyed nearly every minute of it.
And the Yankees won!
Posted by Allen AKA on April 17, 2008 at 03:16 PM
