Every year, for as long as I can remember (well, that isn’t very long, but you know what I mean), we have taken Emily and a friend, or two or three, to the Twins home opener. Usually it falls a day or two before or after her birthday. This year it was a whole week before her birthday and it was last night. At nearly the last minute, her friend canceled because she was sick, but one of her softball team mates was able to fill in, thank God. Not that the nose bleed seats that we had were very expensive, but still, it would have been a bummer for Emily had she not had a friend to come along.
Emily is a HUGE softball freak. If there was a professional softball team in our area, she would be a huge fan. Instead, she is a HUGE Twins fan. She rarely misses a game. If she is playing, she gets score updates when she can. She knows a LOT about the game. More than I do and I have been around longer than her. She even listens to or watches the pre-season stuff.
Me? I am definitely a fair weather fan. But I did grow up in a house where it was ALWAYS on. There are just too many games for me to follow it fanatically. I have too many things to do and not enough time to do them to be a fanatic. I do love to go to a game or two and I can get into it while I am there, too. I really love the tradition we have of going for her birthday and I love the joy it brings to her. I know it will be something that she treasures forever.
My view of the game:
Waaay above home plate. But it was fun anyway. As it always is.
I have many fond, teenaged memories of Padres game at Jack Murphy Stadium viewed from that same perspective. General admission in the upper deck was the only way my friends and I could get anywhere near the homeplate angle. You can’t even buy a hotdog now for what we paid for our seats then.
Happy Birthday, Emily! Gotta love a girl who loves baseball.
To watch a baseball game for my birthday, I’d have to go to the Dominican or Puerto Rico or Venezula…Lucky you!!
hm, where is Venezula? Close to Venezuela, maybe?
I think I’ve only been to two MLB games, one a year or so after the Metrodome opened, and one at (the then brand new) Comiskey Park during a high school field trip.
One of these days I really should haul my kids up to the cities to see a Twins game.
I LOVE going to the games in person, and got to do that alot in Phoenix – even a lot of the playoff games on their way to win the World Series – it was awesome!
We flew home from Miami last night, right into a lovely snow storm. Remind me…why is our new stadium going to be an *outdoor* one? I think I’m one of the very few who actually love the Metrodome. Not to mention the Dome Dogs!
Look at you, going on opening day.
I’m a fair weather, nothing better to do kinda guy. But when I go, I love it and always say I should go more often. And of course, Camden Yards is beautiful.
I went to my teams home opener too! A sure sign of spring.