Flitgun Frankie
August 17, 2020
The most profitable game I ever attended.
My cousin got married that day and we went to the reception, which was in the afternoon. Some people at the reception, when it was over, decided to go out together to a club. One of them had two tickets to this game and decided to go to the club instead of the game, and gave the tickets to me and my brother. They were really good seats, in the upper boxes, and I had never sat in such expensive seats at Shea Stadium before.
Well, we stuck for the whole game. It was tied going into the tenth, the the Giants blew the Mets out in the top of the tenth, and, of course, almost everybody left by the end of the top of the tenth, but me and my brother stayed for the bottom half, hoping to avoid the traffic rushing out of the park.
When the Mets made their last out, we got up to leave, and when I turned around, I found two 20 dollar bills lying on the ground under the seat behind us. The people who had those seats were long gone, so I picked up the money and made 40 dollars, which was a whole lot of money to me back then, as I was still a college student.
Thanks Mets, for giving up those 6 runs, getting everybody to leave early, and earning me 40 bucks for sticking it out.
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