Near stampede for Yankee-Red Sox seats offered on Jet Blue Tampa to Boston flight

• Steven Crist of the Daily Racing Form was returning north after his visit to Tampa Bay Downs, was seated on a Jet Blue flight from Tampa to Boston, Sunday, March 14. This is what he wrote Monday, March 15:

"Just before they shut the doors on the full flight from Tampa to Boston, a JetBlue agent stepped into the plane. It seems that the passenger I'd nosed out of the last seat really needed to get to Boston and had a proposition. Even though, the agent announced, she knew that a Boston-bound flight was probably a Red Sox stronghold,

• would anyone give up his seat for Mariano Rivera, the Yankees' ace reliever, who was offering

• four prime seats to any Yankees-Red Sox game this year in exchange?

There was practically a stampede of passengers trying to be the first to exit, and I flew back across the aisle from the greatest closer in baseball -- and maybe aviation too."...

• One commenter wrote the following:

"mr_milkshakes says: Impetuous Beantowners should be ashamed of themselves. Mariano Rivera has 47 lifetime(probably higher) saves vs Red Sox. The entire plane should have stayed put. There was a time when a "grudge" meant something."....

• From The Daily Racing Form, 3/15/10, by Steven Crist, publisher, post, "The Pollyanna View"

Above photo came to my attention on March 25, taken of Mo with Jet Blue crew member on day of flight about which above story was written by the Daily Racing Form author. photo from Jet Blue blog.

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