Bo-ring

Q: What is more boring than watching a baseball game between two teams that are not "your" teams?

A: Watching a baseball game between two teams that are not your teams while you have no beer. And they have a 56 minute rain delay.

Backstory: I was in New York City with He Who Shall Not be Named, visiting the hallowed Yankee Stadium before it is torn down. (They are tearing it down to move across the street to a new stadium that will be called - drumroll - Yankee Stadium.) We live in the city that invented covered sports stadiums so that weather will not affect the game. We don't know what to do during a rain delay. Normally, I would drink more heavily than usual, but this was a day game and I have learned not to drink in the sunlight. Beer, sun, and see-through skin make a bad combination.

We were at the stadium for a total of 5 1/2 hours. Then we had dinner at the ESPN Zone. Then we went to another baseball game at another stadium in NY that is being torn down so that the team can move to a new stadium next to the old stadium. That's enough baseball for a while.

The Monday game was better for several reasons:

• I was drinking. Yes, beer is expensive in NYC, but not much more costly than it is in the sports venues in Houston. And besides, I learned my lesson the day before - baseball without beer is boringball.


• We were at Shea Stadium - the home of the first stadium concert ever. By the Beatles, of course. It is hallowed ground indeed. That will be gone in October.


• It was a night game, so the crowd was more fun.


• I was drinking.