Thanks to Scott Rolen’s home run (did anyone else think it looked exactly like McGwire’s 62 – a liner to that left field corner) I won’t be in the town of the NL champions next week. Which is too bad because from “this story”:http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/columns/story?id=1907102 it looks like tickets may have been affordable. Fenway tickets are over $1200 on the scalper market, which is pretty insane, but Busch tickets are $500 to $700. Going by Andy’s advice in the last thread, that might have been a utility maximising option for me, were Houston tickets the same price. (Could one night be worth that much? Not on its own, but if we win being there increases how much utility I’d get from the win over the next months, years, decades etc so I’d say it’s a chance.) So I’m $500 to $700 richer and potentially some utils poorer. C’est la vie. On the upside, I was petrified of the Astros homefield advantage, and now I only have to worry about the Walker/Pujols/Rolen/Edmonds lineup.