Vanity: I was there when the Diamondbacks Made History!!! Were any of you there ???

Me ^ | November 5, 2001 | RooRoobird14, Insane Diamondbacks Fan!!!

[dittomom]

Any idea why they didn't close the roof when it started to rain? That decision is left to the MLB PTB, I believe. The rain was pretty sporadic. They probably don't close it in the middle of an inning to be fair to both teams - make them both deal with the rain.

[ThePoetsRaven]

Yankee fans never riot when they win.

[pasquale]

I was asleep I do not get too excited watching 18 men being paid millions of dollars a year to chase

You don't know what you're missing. There hasn't been a Super Bowl yet that could compare with this Series for drama, grit, and heroic moments.

[Irma]

RooRoo!  YOU WERE THERE!  HOW EXCITING!!!  WASN'T IT TERRIFIC!  (especially Game 6!)

(and how very different from the other day when we were moaning in misery!  LOL!!!)

[Vinomori]

I was there. It was great. It was fitting.

[rond]

Congratulations for being one of the lucky people on the planet. You got to watch a blowout and a nail-biter -- and your team won the series!

Gotta confess that I was rooting for Arizona, if only because the Yankees have had their share of glory. Time to let others bask. Besides, if the Yanks had won the focus would have been on how the team came back and drew inspiration from the events of Sept. 11 and blah blah blah. That may all be well and true -- but this is baseball. A game. An enjoyable pastime. No need to find the metaphysical.

Thanks to the Diamondbacks, and the Yankees, for putting on the best World Series in recent history! Bet Fox is gonna love them ratings ...

[barker]

Congratulations to the Diamandbacks on a great series and their win. My team (Royals) was out of the race in May and there is no way I could ever pull for the Yankees.

The D'backs holding much of their celebration on the field so the fans could see it was kinda cool.

[rogers21774]

Hats off to the Diamondbacks, Phoenix, and the entire State of Arizona for their first ever professional sports championship.

[Norb2569]

I do not get too excited watching 18 men being paid millions of dollars a year to chase a ball in taxpayer subsidized stadiums.

Get a life... now go and pee in YOUR OWN cornflakes!

[rogers21774]

BTW, I haven't heard any reports of rioting or looting or cars being overturned and set ablaze in the streets of Phoenix. That's cool.

[OldFriend]

NY media making a big deal about the 'rioting' in Arizona last night. Anyone have the real scoop?

[SamAdams76]

How many people can fit into that stadium? 50,000? There will be at least 500,000 people claiming to be at that game before long. I know there are at least a million Bostonians who swear they were at Fenway Park at Game 6 of the 1975 World Series (when Carlton Fisk hit the 10th inning home run).

[Cyber Liberty]

"Gotta question for ya. Any idea why they didn't close the roof when it started to rain?"

In Arizona, rain is a cause for celebration. You see dancing in the streets while the water comes down from the heavens.

Others may have seen it as a bad omen when the drizzle started, but not I. I knew we were being smiled upon.

[monkey]

I left after the eighth to beat traffic.

[Cyber Liberty]

Did you see a riot that I missed?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

You lucky people to have been there!

What a great series!

My hubby, a diehard Braves fan, rooted for your team like they were HIS team!

Why? Even though the D-Backs eliminated his beloved Braves, HE HATES THE YANKEES! LOL and was pulling for your team the whole way through the Series!!! just to take that smirk off Jeter's face......for one thing.

The flyover of the Stealth bomber and the bombs bursting in air during the National Anthem just gave me goosebumps. The hit by Gonzalez in the 9th and the resulting euphoria brought me to tears!

This is what America is really all about.

We take our frustrations out on each other (mostly) AT BALLPARKS instead of with bombs!

Again, what a great Series! Thanks, D-backs and Yankees - America needed that!

[Cyber Liberty]

There was no rioting. None.

Typical NY media sour grapes. Two guys walking down the street are "rioting" to them when their guys lose.

[grania]

Being there...sounds unreal. Glad your team could do what the Red Sox can't.

Randy Johnson...UNBELIEVABLE. He figured it out, stared them down, and did it. It was magical, even on TV.

[Norb2569]

Congratulations, RooRoobird!! I know you are floating on cloud nine! Congratulations to the world champion Diamondbacks!!

I am extremely proud of our fellow FReeper, Luis Gonzales, for his game winning base hit!!

Norb in Jacksonville

[tdadams]

Well, if history is any judge, years from now you can extrapolate that the attendance had to be about 1,000,000. Everyone you talk to will say they were there.

Same thing happened here in Nashville in 1999 when the Tennessee Titans pulled off the "Music City Miracle" and beat Buffalo in a game everyone had written off. The stadium holds about 69,000 but talking to people here in Nashville, it must hold closer to 1,000,000. Seems every single resident of Nashville was there that day!

Fitting 1 million in a 69K capacity stadium... talk about a miracle!