By: Billy BeerSlugger
When did it become en vouge to take a girl as a date to a Phillies game? If this was 2003 and you asked a girl to go to the Phillies game with you instead of the old dinner/drinks/movie routine the girl would probably look at you like you’re out of your mind. Kind of like getting your wife a bowling ball for her birthday.
I was perusing a dating website today while nursing a pretty bad hangover and every other girl listed a Phillies game as some place they would like to go to on a first date. I think up until about a two years ago girls viewed baseball as extremely boring and one of the last places they would want to be on a hot summer night would be a baseball stadium.
So what happened? The Phillies win the World Series and all of a sudden a Phillies game becomes a preferred place for a date? I’ll admit it’s a lot more exciting when the Phils are winning instead of toiling in the basement but why does that factor into a woman’s decision to now want to go to a baseball game? I don’t get it.
Now I know that some girls really do like to go to ballgame’s no matter what place the phils are in but it’s few and far between. I think you may have seen this same phenomenon in the early 2000’s when the Sixers were competitive. Girls wanted to go to Sixers game to see Allen Iverson and the Philles do have some stars on their team now that women want to go out and see. But ask a girl to go to a Sixers game now and she may think you’re crazy.
Am I the only one who’s noticed this?