At the Ball Park
Baseball Game from Mike C on Vimeo.
I went to a MLB game last night, my first Giants game since the early 90’s. It was neat to finally see Pac Bell/SBC/AT&T park. Jill and I used to go to games in the days of Will Clark, Robby Thompson and Brett Butler, players long since retired, so it was good to get caught up a bit.
My friend Keith came up w/ the great (and free) tickets (thanks, Keith!) He’s been a regular attendee for years, so he got a chuckle at some of my clueless comments:
“They show instant replays on the scoreboard? Cool!”
“You don’t have to make a constant, conscious effort to make sure your hat doesn’t get blown off your head and out of the stadium? (I lost a favorite cap at Candlestick by forgetting this once) Cool!”
“The relief guys warm up right there on the sidelines? Cool!”
“They come to your seat and take food orders? Really Cool!” (Now, that’s what I call progress!)
Despite the Giants basically rolling over and playing dead the entire night, I had a good time. The place had a great atmosphere and was much more family-friendly than I remembered—even with all the Dodger blue in the crowd.
Music:
- “Summer Song” from The Extremist by Joe Satriani
yes, in the olden days we put on our arctic weather gear and brought a cooler of food. this sounds much better!
Yeah, but that was one of my fave things. I still remember shopping for that “baseball game cooler” with you. It’s no doubt one of our earliest joint shopping sprees!
take your food orders–you musta been in club level, nice! We went yesterday and had beautiful weather and got to see the Dodgers get clobbered! Sweet!
Oh yeah, and we got a free Giants cap too! Nah nah!
Seriously though, we all oughtta go some time, it’s really fun! Even the bleachers are good seats.
Yeah, when Lucy gets a little bigger, we’ll totally take her. My friend said there’s a playground or something where the coke bottle is?
BTW, I didn’t even have to order the food–we got free food before the game. An all you can eat/drink buffet that lasted until the first pitch. I felt very spoiled.