This blog began as a way to record my musings about preparations and travels to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada February 16-27, 2010. From that amazing experience came this ongoing story of becoming a sports fan. You can follow my tales of awe, agony, and all the emotions in between as well as view pics from seasons of Phillies baseball. Along the way is a little Eagles football thrown in for fun, and even some astronomy and weather related tales. I feel lucky to have witnessed some historic games, some heartbreaking losses, but all wonderful when told from this new fan's point of view.

Blog Archives postings:
Dec 2009-Feb 2010
Olympics
March 2010-Dec 2011
Baseball and more
2011 The Phillies do again, winning the Eastern Championship for the 5th straight year.
April 2012-Sept 27 2012 Not the best season for the Phillies
2013-We wait and see!

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Phantastically Phrustrating Phun game with Phriends

Tonight, or rather last night, or rather this morning's game was the third time I've gotten to stand up for a 14th inning stretch! And each time we won, so the several thousand of us diehard fans who stayed sang  the traditional "He's got High Hopes" as more of a scream than a song.

The game ended at 12:15 am with a win for the Phillies in the bottom of the 15th inning, but not before Peter, Joe, Marc and I had moved down to the 300 section with some other wonderful rowdy folks who cheered and jeered and screamed and sang "Take me out to the ballgame" for the second time.