Patrick Filler

Caught in the Middle

This year’s World Series pits the Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Yankees — two teams separated by a stretch of highway running right up the middle of New Jersey. If the tickets weren’t ridiculously expensive, I could reasonably consider traveling to either team’s stadium to take in a World Series game.

From Hoboken, NJ:

• Train travel time to Yankee Stadium: 1 hour (rush hour train schedule)
• Drive time to Citizen’s Bank Ballpark: 1 hour 45 minutes (with reasonable traffic)

Not surprisingly, I’ve never lived within 100 miles of both teams playing in the series. In fact, this is only the fourth time in my life that I’ve lived within 100 miles of one of them:

Yesterday, the Phillies chose to take an Amtrak train into New York’s Penn Station. When the Yankees travel to Philly, I assume they’ll just get on A-rod’s back.