Won't happen in Philly. I am serious. Historically, Philly fans have been great about celebrating and not turning into an angry mob. LA and Detroit are pros at it.
"Windows were smashed at a bank and luggage store in the downtown shopping district. At least two cars were overturned, the windows of a TV van were smashed, dozens of huge streetside planters were flipped over and some bus shelters were damaged or destroyed." - - CBS 3
Hooray!
Congratulations and thanks for helping to kill my interest in this season. Baseball is my favorite sport!
For the Philly-based DSPers, I've got two tickets to the celebration tomorrow at Lincoln Financial (club level, 1st row), but I can't make it. They're e-mailable, so PM me and they are yours for free.
Won't happen in Philly. I am serious. Historically, Philly fans have been great about celebrating and not turning into an angry mob. LA and Detroit are pros at it.
"Windows were smashed at a bank and luggage store in the downtown shopping district. At least two cars were overturned, the windows of a TV van were smashed, dozens of huge streetside planters were flipped over and some bus shelters were damaged or destroyed." - - CBS 3
Hooray!
Congratulations and thanks for helping to kill my interest in this season. Baseball is my favorite sport!
It's going to be impossible for me to work today. Broad street is already lined with people for the noon parade, and all I hear from my window is incessant honking and screaming.
I was on the corner of Broad & Walnut from about 1130-12 after the game. It was 95% college kids and 20-somethings who had just come from bars just hanging out on broad street. There were some fireworks going off, a ton of broken beer bottles, some people climbing stuff, but not vandalism at that point. You could tell though it wouldn't take much for a group of idiots to start something. There were a bunch of cops around, but they were just standing on the corner looking quite relaxed.
Sucks whenever vandalism breaks out, but if only a few stores have their windows broken in city of several million it's not the end of the world. 76 arrests for 100,000 people on the streets isn't so bad (0.076%).
Already? Holy crap...I was thinking about going, but my guess is that if I arrive anywhere in Center City around 11:30, I won't see a single thing. Ah well.
Jared wrote:Already? Holy crap...I was thinking about going, but my guess is that if I arrive anywhere in Center City around 11:30, I won't see a single thing. Ah well.
Evidently people starting showing up at 730. By 9 o'clock there were already shirtless people on the dividers and people hanging out windows (I am at Broad and Walnut). My building sent everyone an email yesterday strictly forbidding all visitors to the office and no open windows. I'm gonna have to fight through the crowd just to literally open the door to get out of the building for the parade.
Feanor wrote:I'll take the train in to Suburban Station if there's a Flyers parade in my lifetime... probably wouldn't be quite as popular as this Phillies one.
The Flyers 1974 parade was estimated to be attended by 2 million fans, still the city record. I suspect that record is going down today!
Yeah...in the office right now, and some people taking public transport to work are just getting in now. I just gave away my Phillies celebration tickets to two girls in the office and they just about flipped out. But because public transport is so jacked right now, they're walking to the stadium (about 5 miles). Should be crazy.
I'm heading out of the office in a few minutes--I just can't sit still any more. Never been a better time to live and work in center city! Not sure if me and the colleagues will return to the office post-parade...
I'm gonna have to fight through the crowd just to literally open the door to get out of the building for the parade.
