In truth, the lower seats last night were a mishmash. A lady of a certain age in her fur coat. Former Yankees great Dave Winfield high-fiving his way through the seats pregame. But not entirely Park Avenue.
"Game 2, they got kicked out, six of them," one guy in the back of the section behind the Yankees dugout said to an usher, pointing toward some seats closer to home plate. "They pushed the lady cop?"
"They pushed the lady cop," the usher confirmed.
"It was early in the game," the other guy said.
Last night's game played out the way it did, but yesterday, Yankees fans - the most sophisticated on Earth, just ask them - were all but shouting that their manager had turned into a bozo, sending old men to the mound on short rest.
Yankees fans openly feared that if Ryan Howard found his groove, another historic collapse would be inevitable. They couldn't even win a battle of the bullpens until it was time for the great Mariano Rivera.
Discussing the bullpen - that's where you really saw the flop sweat. (Who says NYC and Philly have nothing in common?) Yesterday, adult baseball fans seriously discussed the possibility of bringing Rivera out of the Yankees' bullpen for the seventh inning of Game 6.
Make no mistake: No bad words here for the man who turns 40 this month. Rivera's the best in the business, ever. When he retires, his cut fastball will go straight to the Hall of Fame.
