On Monday evening, many area Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankee fans who were at work added a new task to their to-do lists -- checking the Internet or their cell phones for updates on the World Series championship.

Some, though, would have wait until they were off the clock to find how their team did.

For those who have to rise early for work, it meant sacrificing some sleep in order to watch the historic game.

Here's how some residents kept tabs on the World Series Monday.

--- Edward A. Trippett Sr. is a Phillies fan, but he's didn't watch Monday's game on television.

Instead, he kept track of the World Series via the Internet.

"I won't sit and watch the game, because I think I might jinx it," he said. "Every time I turn it on, (Yankee) Alex Rodriguez gets a hit."

Still, Trippett said he planned to stay up to get the latest on the game.

--- Nikole Tome, a junior at Penn State York and an employee at Rita's Italian Ice in Manchester Township, said Monday that she wouldn't get out of work until about 9:15 p.m.

The business doesn't have a radio, but she figured that she might be able to find out the latest online through a computer in the back of the store.

Then she planned to hurry home at the end of her shift "and catch as much of the game as I can or watch highlights," she said.

Paul Burt is a Yankee's fan, but the Best Buy employee is scheduled to be at work by 8:30 a.m. today. While he planned to stay up and watch the game,

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he added a qualifier.

"If the Yankee's are getting (beaten), then no, I won't stay up," he said. "If it's a good game or if they're winning, then I'll stay up."

--- Nana Adams, who worked the evening shift at Best Buy in Springettsbury Township on Monday, is a Phillies fan, and usually when he gets home, checks his online subscription to ESPN. He also catches highlights or watches the game on the Internet.

"I have friends who text me the scores and the updates," the York College sophomore added.

--- Jason Shirey, a book seller at Borders in Springettsbury Township and a self-professed "die-hard" Yankees fan, said he was scheduled to work until 4 a.m. Tuesday.

The employee said he didn't want to overhear anything in the store about the game, and he wouldn't listen to the radio on the way home.

"I want to be able to go home and watch it in all of its digital glory," Shirey said. "I want to see the first pitch to the last out."