For the four-game series against last-place Toronto, 205,434 hearty souls braved the traffic, footed the elevated ticket prices and crammed themselves into the ancient ballpark that is once again being cruelly measured for a wrecking ball.
The makeover occurred last year, the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, and after much talk that elevated President Obama to the former president's soul mate.
What's there will be plenty: more than enough elevated conversation for anyone to absorb fully, though a few hardy souls may try.
As Broadway, out of economic necessity, embraces rock, country and pop-soul music, it has increasingly turned into an elevated East Coast answer to Las Vegas, with Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin standing for tradition in New York, where the Rat Pack and Liberace epitomize Sin City.
"A church [is] the only thing worthy of representing the soul of a people, for religion is the most elevated reality in man," said Gaudí – words repeated by Pope Benedict XVI when he said the first Mass in the Sagrada Família at its dedication on 7 November, 2010.
Teshuvah is not simply about guilt, or coming clean -- ultimately it's about shedding those barriers that block our pure soul, revealing our true nature, and returning to the most elevated aspect of ourselves.
This place has its superlatives: the oldest capital in North America, closing in on seven centuries; the most elevated, at nearly a mile and a half; by far the most crowded, with 20 million souls.
In his collaboration with Mr. Sater, a playwright who had never written songs before, Mr. Sheik has found an artistic soul mate whose lyrics recast the sometimes bluntly didactic sentiments of his own lyrics in a more elevated and arty diction.
The plan, for which construction will begin this fall, will replace soul-sapping asphalt with bird-friendly turf, put layers of plants around the skeletal infrastructure of the elevated subway lines, and tie those planted areas into landscaped areas with cisterns to collect storm water.
Learn its elevated argot.
