10 Steps: Yankees playoff game

Come October, New York is all about one thing:
Playoff baseball. Yankees playoff baseball.

I've been a Yankees fan since long before I moved to nyc. I understand what it takes to be a Yankees fan in nyc during this important time. So here's a little 10 step guide for a Yankees playoff game based on my experience with Friday's ALCS game 5.

Now....for all you non-baseball loving readers who have no idea what ALCS Game 5 means or what the difference between a double and a double play is...
Well, we can't be friends. 
Kidding, kidding (sort of...)
But just for background...ALCS Game 5 was the deciding game of the first round of the playoffs.
You win, you move on. You lose, you go home.
Important, ya understand?

10 Step Guide:Yankees Playoffs  

1. Buy a ticket to the goddamn game.
It doesn't matter if first pitch is 5:05 on a work day and it'll take you 45 mins to get to the stadium on the subway. Just.buy.the.ticket.
Work can wait for another day; Game 5 can't and won't wait.


 

2. Get a tall boy can of Coors Light for the train ride. It's the best $3.29 you can spend.
The 4 will be body all up on body all the way to the Bronx and nothing makes it more bareable than a cold beer.
Proceed to chug the rest of the beer like a champ outside the stadium while old men cheer you on. You know, 'cause you can't waste good beer.

3. Sit in the bleachers.
The tickets are cheaper, the view is perfect, and the crowd is the real New Yaaawkers. There will be drunken outbursts, possible fights, and the language will not be family-friendly-everything critical to a good baseball game experience, I swear.
Join in the antics. You can't sit in the beachers and not lend your voice to the 'asshole' chant everytime a fan of the other team sits down.

Typical bleacher shenanigans

4. Get a beer and a pretzel.
It's baseball in New York. You have no choice.
I mean, $9.50 for a bottle of Miller Lite is just an expense of the experience...

5. Stand throughout the whole game.
It's game five goddamnit. Win or go home.
Sitting is for the elderly and small children and in this case even they are probably standing.

6. Be in the moment and pay attention to the game.
No texting, no facebooking, no gossiping about boys. Just yankees.
Soak up every second of the fact that you're living out a childhood dream.

7. Go hard.
But maybe not as hard as this guy.

8. Celebrate like crazy when the game is final: NYY 3, BAL 1.
Let yourself get chills.

9. Stay to hear Frank Sinatra's 'New York, New York' blasted through the stadium after the game.

Drunkenly sing along with randoms as you stumble out of standium onto the Bronx streets.

10. Take the 4 downtown back to Manhattan with all the other fans.

Yell, high-five, and chant 'let's go yankees' at every chance.

And prepare to do it all again for the ALCS...