dperry
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Reg: 11-24-04
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05-21-22 10:20 PM - Post#341713
In response to Go Green
Would you believe that the announcers referred to this in the bottom of the second in game 1? They said that the Penn team learned about Dartmouth's comeback when a Penn fan started screaming near the dugout. Eventually, they figured out why.
Thank you for noting that.  I was actually watching the live stats update on the Dartmouth website (because my phone probably didn't have the bandwidth for video and certainly didn't have the battery), which exacerbated the reaction to a certain extent, because you see the little ball and strike lights pop up on the screen, and then when the ball's actually put in play, it seems to take forever to update, so when the words "home run" popped up and Dartmouth's score flipped over, I was in shock for a couple of seconds, and then I just lost it. After that, I was keeping a lot of the other Penn fans updated the rest of the way.
It wasn't even so much about the team--obviously I'm happy that they get an advantage, and we've never hosted the thing before, so it's good for the program that we have finally done that, but home field isn't as big a deal in baseball as it is in other sports. The biggest thing for me is that I had been thinking all day about the logistics of watching this thing in New York, and how much of a pain it was going to be, and I was really, really excited that I didn't have to do that. 
David Perry
Penn '92
"Hail, Alma Mater/Thy sons cheer thee now
To thee, Pennsylvania/All rivals must bow!!!" |
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