Save the Streak

With the exception of last year's pandemic season, I've attended every Phillies Home Opener since 1980. It's my favorite day of the year and my personal religious holiday.

Only 8,800 tickets were made available for this year's Home Opener, and they went to season ticket holders. If anyone has a pair of tickets to the Opener they'd be willing to sell me for face value or slightly above, I'd be eternally grateful and would gladly interview you for this blog. Or cut your lawn or wash your car. 

I don't want to go all Blanche DuBois, but I need to rely on the kindness of strangers. Or maybe someone I know. I checked StubHub, and that's a budget buster, unless I hit the lottery in the next couple of weeks. 

I had tickets to last year's scheduled opener, but then the pandemic shut the planet down. When play finally started up last July, I made a point to go to Citizens Bank Park on Opening Day just to say I was there. The photo above is my son and me, masks on, at CBP last July. His streak of Home Openers started in 2001. 

The streak stands at 41 years, with an asterisk for last season. There has to be somebody out there who can help us out and extend the streak to 42. Yes, we're desperate.