We FINALLY had a nice summer day today in New York City. 88 and sunny. A friend called and asked if I'd go with him to Coney Island to see the Brooklyn Cyclones because they were playing the Staten Island Yankees and he had extra tickets. It's only 15 minutes away so I was like hell yeah I'll go to the beach and a baseball game. We looked around the arcades for a while but didn't find anything good (to me at least). Time Crisis, a couple of linked sit down drivers here and there, but mostly redemption games. We went in to the game early to collect our Irish Night t-shirts, and low and behold right behind home plate (between section 2 and 3) was a restored Ms. Pac
. However, the side art was covered up with advertisements for a nearby amusement company. Also, if you beat the high score, you would win free stuff at their arcade. It always had people in front of it, it was on free play - it was in really nice condition. I asked the guy about it, and he said they have high score competitions at the ball park sometimes. Looks like the Mets win the title of most awesome minor league baseball experience.
Then, my friend's portable radio delivered the news that the guys who carried the Sawx in "the collapse" and to the World Series were using illegal performance enhancers. Now I can smile knowing they had to cheat to break the curse. It was a good day. (Sorry guys, I had to get that dig in there
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. However, the side art was covered up with advertisements for a nearby amusement company. Also, if you beat the high score, you would win free stuff at their arcade. It always had people in front of it, it was on free play - it was in really nice condition. I asked the guy about it, and he said they have high score competitions at the ball park sometimes. Looks like the Mets win the title of most awesome minor league baseball experience.Then, my friend's portable radio delivered the news that the guys who carried the Sawx in "the collapse" and to the World Series were using illegal performance enhancers. Now I can smile knowing they had to cheat to break the curse. It was a good day. (Sorry guys, I had to get that dig in there
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