74. Baseball in London: The London Series

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The Shark deck this week. Something
different baseball in London. It's a very

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long one and it's got run sure, rock shot off the thoughts of Aaron

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Hicks. A six ton go to
the station. It's a six run first

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setting for the Yankees. I'm not
sure they came to see. Back in

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twenty nineteen, I had the pleasure
of traveling to London. I saw the

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Yankees played the Red Sox. Well, major League Baseball is returning to London.

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It's the London Series. Saint Louis
Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs will be

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playing over at London Stadium. London
Stadium was built for the twenty twelve Summer

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Olympics. It was not designed for
baseball. They had to put a baseball

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field in there, and the British
people saw something vaguely resembling baseball. But

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I was there and it was kind
of nutty. The first game. Listen

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to this score Yankee seventeen, Red
Sox thirteen. The Red Sox scored six

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runs in the first and the Red
Sox put up a bunch of runs in

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the bottom of the first, And
I can't believe this. My friend and

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I who we were there. We
left the game before it was over.

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John, Why did you go all
the way to London and leave a baseball

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game? Here's why. We had
seen five innings of baseball and terrible baseball,

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and the game was three hours old, and we were looking at our

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watches and being like, we're gonna
be here at eleven o'clock at night and

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everything's gonna be closed, and we
kind of want to see London as well.

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So we had gotten our fill of
baseball in London Stadium and we actually

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left that game early. Game two
was a much better game. Not a

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great baseball game, twelve to eight
in favor of the Yankees, but that

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more resembles baseball. Problem is,
I don't know if they had magic baseballs

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for that or the dimensions were the
way way way too many home runs.

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I don't know what they were doing. We'll see what they do for Cubs

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and Cardinals. The stadium was sold
out for Game one fifty nine thousand,

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six hundred and fifty nine, including
me, Prince Harry, and Megan Markle.

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By the way, I'm also the
writer on a podcast called Palace Intrigue.

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We talk about the royal family,
we talk about Harry, Megan every

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day. I wish we'd been doing
the podcast back then. That would have

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been gold content. Anyway, that
one is called Ballast Intrigue and Harry and

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Meghan were there and Harry threw out
the first bitch. The estimates were about

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forty thousand people at that game were
Americans. My experience was unless you were

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actually at the stadium or in the
immediate area, it was kind of an

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invisible event. Major League Baseball ex
has been like, oh, everybody cared

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about it. It was like I
feeling in a big city, especially in

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the Northeast. It was probably as
popular as a Major League soccer game is

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on a random weekday in say New
York City. Not that popular. So

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forty thousand Americans, some Brits.
They are Harry and Megan. It was

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probably the first time most British fans
had ever seen beer vendors. You see,

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drinking is prohibited in the stands at
most soccer games. A local said,

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you have to stop the hooligans,
so they can't sell the beer.

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But here at baseball, it's family
friendly. There's nothing to cause trouble.

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It's very family friendly. I'm looking
at a recap here saying the crowd started

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to get bored midway through the game
with the Yankees leading seventeen to six in

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the fifth inning. That's when we
started talking about leaving. There wasn't mascot

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race. Freddie Mercury eat out Winston
Churchill. I was there for that.

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That was a good time. The
others in the mascot race Henry the Eighth

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and the Lochness Monster. So this
year the London Series June twenty fourth,

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Cardinals and Cubs. You're gonna go
all right? Well, London Stadium will

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open three hours before first pitch at
three o'clock local London time on Saturday noon.

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On Sunday, there will be food
at beverages and shopping exclusive MLB merchandise.

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Yeah. I have a cool Yankees
cap with the British Union jack in

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the n Y I have the same
kind of design for the Boston cap.

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I bought them both. Why not, You're only there once. Fans can

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enjoy authentic American food. Highlights include
the London Series Boomstick hot dog and Chili

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nachos, the Saint Louis Donut Burger, Cardinals and Cubs dogs, and Chicago

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Cheesy brisket sandwich Again. Fun,
are you going all the way to London

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to have Nacho's probably not the best
choice, right, but we had a

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good time there. There will be
interactive and family friendly activities around the stadium,

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including fan zones, baseball pitching and
hitting activities, live entertainment, DJ's

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face painting, oversized MLBE photo opportunities, MLB shops, and mascot character appearances.

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We did all that when we were
there. That was a good time,

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all right. How can you get
there? Don't worry. Strafford is

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a fifteen minute walk from the stadium. You could take these Central or Jubilee

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lines. You could take the Docklands
Light railway. We did that on the

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way home to get there. We
were going to take the subway, but

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it was like ninety five tigrees in
London and the subways actually went out.

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There was a power failure. We
had to jump in a cab, but

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no problem getting a cab. I
don't remember how much we spent, who

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knows. We got there somehow via
cab. We got home via the Docklands

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Light Railway. I'm opening up my
photos app here on my Mac and I

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see I took six hundred and fifty
one photos at London stadium. Le may

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just fly through here and see what
I see. Oh yeah, I forgot

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my buddy Dan for Game two.
He spent some money. We were like

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eight rows off the dugout. Totally
forgot about that. That was pretty cool.

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Yeah, I'm looking at the food
stands here. It was less of

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what you'd experience at an American ballpark. Kind of remind me of a NASCAR

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race where to get food you would
leave the stadium proper, but you're still

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like within the ticketed area, if
that makes sense. So you're outside the

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stadium, but still on the grounds
inside where you would have to pay to

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get in. And they had stands
like you'd say had a NASCAR race and

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food trucks. That's where we got
the food. Anyway. The London series

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coming up on June twenty fourth.
If you want to head over to London

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to see some baseball next summer,
the Mets are there, they're playing the

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Phillies. I may have to go
back next week. We'll do some more

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London proper. We'll visit the Tower
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