CNN had some inspiration yesterday for those of us who dream of trekking across the U.S. with the great purpose of doing nothing but watching baseball. When they were in Philadelphia, of course, they ran into some great fans. They also ran into the shitty ones.
What stays with us are the fans we meet: The best and worst were at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park -- two elderly women with an extreme passion for the Phillies, and a pack of drunken college kids who kept chanting for the football Eagles. And spitting. Occasionally on us.
Or the fun of getting there: For trips from New York to Boston and Philadelphia in 2004, we boarded an absurdly cheap Chinatown-to-Chinatown bus, and got what we paid for. Including a screening of a painfully awful made-for-TV movie, "Commitments," that we laugh about to this day.
The article is not all doom and gloom and it will surely get you in the mood for a hot dog.
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