Yesterday afternoon as I finished up work for the week, my phone beeped and I had a new text message.
“Want to go to the Phillies game? Extra ticket, leaving in 30 minutes.”
I was dressed and out the door in under 5!
What a fun game to watch. Had front row seats in the 300 level along the first base line.
Got a great view of the entire field. Saw Chase Utley commit two early errors but.. hey it happens. Rather now than in game 7 of the World Series right?
The minor league affiliate mascots were at the game including Ferrous, FeFe, Screwball and the Crazy Hot Dog Vendor from Reading. I’m not too familiar with the others.. . but they were there too.
The Reds also had their fair share of errors last night as well. For a team that led the National league in fewest errors.. they looked rough last night. Must have been all the rally towel lint snowing down on them. After the now infamous error in right field, the fans were chanting, “Thank you Jay Bruce” and they let out a loud cheer the next time a fly ball headed his way and he caught it. Who says the Philly fans can’t be courteous to opposing players 🙂
I gave out a few Sign the K! yells to Drew Stubbs, just for general principle.
Attending the game with a veggietarian I did try my first vegan burger.. not great, not bad. Tasted like burnt mexican rice.. but I like mexican rice so.. try one for yourself. Also learned that PETA (Yes Rolf, PETA reference for you 🙂 has rated Citizen’s Bank Park as the best vegan friendly park in baseball. I guess we can put that right next to bubbles and free balloons!
Altogether, a great experience. If you’ve never been to a playoff game with that kind of energy.. I recommend you try to take one in.
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I KNEW IT! I KNEW one of us was going to get there… BTW Dan, they’re the Reds… Braves come next round.
I was half expecting to see Laura and Amanda… 😛
Hey…what’s that supposed to mean?!?!?
Uhhh….that one of you won the contest in the paper? 😕
lol, I didn’t win a contest. A friend had an extra seat is all. 🙂
“CARNIVORES AT COCA-COLA PARK”
A new fan section?
Yawn.
The MLB playoffs are boring.
It is the IronPigs that are axis that the world of baseball revolves around.
It should be a long, long winter without an IronPigs blog to read everyday…
I’m trying to find stuff to write about.. I really am 🙂
I’m still trying to figure this stuff out. 😦
Did you know that the drug charges were dropped against Tyson Gillies?
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101010&content_id=15564736&vkey=news_phi&c_id=phi
Other than that, not much going on. Oh, Ryan Howard will be doing the top 10 on Letterman in about 40 minutes. The preview I saw said “top 10 reasons to watch the baseball playoffs”. #8: Some lucky viewer will win a free Tommy John surgery.
You never know who was in the back seat of that police car before him.. I would imagine it would be hard to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it really was his.
You know I haven’t posted anything in awhile. I was at NLDS Game 1, the Roy Halladay no-hitter. What a game!! But for the record, I let out a few “Sign the K Stubbs” too!
Oink