Photo: Yankees Lose, Tigers Win, Champagne for Everybody

Even the kids, i.e., seven-year-old Victor Jose Martinez, who’s got it down pat, what with the bubbly, the peace sign, and the goggles. Hell, he’s already even built like a baseball player.

Our Investigative Reporting Investigation Team was in the Bronx late last night, obviously, and inside the visitors’ clubhouse when the Tigers got down to the business of celebrating their game five victory. NotGraphs spoke to Victor Jose during the festivities. He wasn’t drunk, but he was, in his words, “loving life.”

NotG: Give me your car keys.

Victor Jose Martinez: Naw, naw, I’m good, man! Here, have some champagne! Woo!

*At this point, young Victor Jose gave us the old champagne shower.

NotG: Keys. Now.

VJM: Oh, for fuck’s sake, man. Here.

*Victor Jose fished out his keys from his back pocket, and handed them over. Then gave us champagne shower number two.

NotG: Tell me how you feel right now, young man.

VJM: Best day of my life. So far. I’m just so proud of these guys, each and every one of them. We played hard. We did it for Jimmy, man. Where is that bastard? I want a cigar! Woo!

*Champage shower number three.

NotG: Isn’t it past your bedtime?

VJM: You know, the Yankees, man, they played hard. They deserve a lot of credit. They were a formidable opponent. Much respect to New York.

NotG: No, seriously, what time do you go to bed on school nights?

*Victor Jose grabbed Victor Martinez, his dad, as he was walking by.

VJM: I love this guy! Pop Dukes!

*Victor Jose hugged his dad, and they shared a champagne shower, as only a father and son can do after they beat the New York Yankees in the postseason. It was bloody beautiful to watch.

NotG: Remember this in the morning, young fella: Gatorade, and two Tylenols, preferably extra strength.

VJM: Thanks, man! See you after the next round! Woo!

Image courtesy Reuters, via Daylife.