Taylor Swift Takes Travis Kelce Out to the Ballgame Before Eras Tour Resumes

Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce welcomed the dads, Brads, and Chads of Major League Baseball to the fold Monday night when they headed to the Bronx for the first game of the American League Championship Series to watch the Yankees face off against the Cleveland Guardians. Some social media users grumbled (with one writing, “TBS Stop showing Taylor Swift. We don’t give a damn!”) about broadcasters cutting to the couple during the game, a replay of the same tired whining from a certain pocket of the NFL since Swift attended her first Kansas City game last September.

It would appear that the two are getting their hangs in, Jumbotron or no, before Swift returns to Miami this weekend to kick off the final leg of the Eras Tour with a three-show run in the city. Kelce is currently midway through a bye week with his Kansas City Chiefs, a bit of cosmic schedule alignment that allowed the couple a final few date nights before Swift gets back to doing it with a broken heart onstage throughout North America until the tour wraps in December. Kelce grew up in Westlake, Ohio, just outside Cleveland proper, and even threw out a ceremonial first pitch at a Cleveland game in 2023, so let’s assume that the couple, clad in black baseball caps and dark outfits, keeping a relatively low profile in a suite with comedian Jerrod Carmichael, were not root-root-rooting for the home team.

The Yankees triumphed over the Guardians with a 5-2 win, but on the plus side, someone did post a video of Swift hand-feeding Kelce popcorn on social media. Win some, lose some.

More sadness in the Swiftieverse: Acknowledging that The Eras Tour is almost over, Swift’s Miami shows marking the beginning of the end of a worldwide odyssey enjoyed by fans in person, in theaters and at home via her record-breaking concert film, and over unofficial TikTok livestreams aplenty over the past year and a half.

To soothe the pain of the tour’s inevitable end, on Tuesday morning, Swift announced via social media that on November 29, at long last, the extended Anthology double album edition of The Tortured Poets Department will be available on vinyl and CD, the first time the full 35-track behemoth has been set to a physical format, and that she’s releasing a big ‘ol coffee table book, Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book, on the same day.

All will first be available in Target stores on Black Friday, November 29, and then will be on the Target app and online on November 30. The super-sized version of the album was previously only available in digital format. Both four-disc vinyl pressing and the CD will include all 35 tracks, including four acoustic recordings.

The 256-page book includes more than 500 photos of the tour, rehearsal process, and behind the scenes, plus costume sketches and concepts, notes, and reflections from Swift. “Here is the official retrospective of the most wondrous tour of my life, my beloved Eras Tour,” Swift said of the book in a press release. “Thank you to the fans who came to this show. You were what made The Eras Tour what it became.”

Ahead of her Miami dates, Swift donated $5 million to hurricane relief efforts in the area via Feeding America, the organization announced last week.