Empty Bookshelf Reviews » Phillies http://emptybookshelf.com telling you what to think since aught-five. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:23:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Lost Posts – “Attending the June 3rd 2007 Phillies-Giants Game” http://emptybookshelf.com/nate/2008/12/19/the-lost-posts-attending-the-june-3rd-2007-phillies-giants-game/ http://emptybookshelf.com/nate/2008/12/19/the-lost-posts-attending-the-june-3rd-2007-phillies-giants-game/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:14:12 +0000 Nate http://emptybookshelf.com/?p=287 Going back and finding posts I never finished, I saw that this one was completed, but never posted... maybe I just didn't have a picture to go with it.


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He could probably have jumped over Danny DeVito.


Allow me to list the numerous things that made this game completely awesome for me to have seen in person.

1. Shane Victorino Hula Figurine- As part of the larger "Hula Day", celebrating Shane Victorino, for fans under 14 they were giving out Dashboard Hula Figurinesof the Hawaiian outfielder. We put a baseball hat on my 21-year-old sister, she passed as 14 I guess, because the old guy at the gate totally gave her one. Later, when I commented on the fact that she passed for 14, she punched me in the stomach.

2. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney and Danny DeVito threw out the first and second pitch, to a hula-skirt-wearing Phanatic. DeVito's only made it halfway.

3. Bizarrely terrible plays. Ironically, it was anything but sunny as there was a constant rain, which caused Pat Burrell to throw a ball about 15 feet, and Mike Zagurski to throw a ball directly into the ground. It didn't, however cause Freddy Garcia to not run out a ground ball to second, with deserved "Boo"s from the crowd.

4. Five-run comeback, punctuated by Ryan Howard's three-run homerun, with two outs, to give them the lead, which was eventually relinquished when the Giants tied the game.

5. Watching Danny DeVito Hula Dance during the 7th inning stretch.

6. Booing Barry. Barry Bonds came up with a chance to give his team the lead. He was greated by bigger BOOs than Freddy Garcia, and grounded into a double play.

7. Walk-Off. After letting the Giants tie the game in the 9th, the day's focus, Shane Victorino becomes the hero with a walk-off home run in the 10th. Though the stands in that video are empty, I don't think that many people left. It had been raining constantly for about an hour and most people were hiding wherever they could find cover.

*****

This game just goes to show why you never leave a baseball game until it's over, even if it's raining.]]> http://emptybookshelf.com/nate/2008/12/19/the-lost-posts-attending-the-june-3rd-2007-phillies-giants-game/feed/ 0