#4840 – mama mia, that's-a spicy fast-a-ball
i got to the ballpark during the 6th inning of the first game, and it turned out that one of my old coworkers from when i worked in the store was sitting across the aisle from me. it was a perfect seat too, right on the aisle with the all-you-can-eat food stand and restrooms just around the corner! the first game ended with the orioles losing 30 to 3 (most runs scored in one game by a major league team since 1897, and the most runs scored ever in the american league — now i have something to tell my grandkids). BUT i got my eat on, just like i said i would. i had a wristband and at the specified food stand i could have my pick of:
i had (of course) at least one of each! the total kibble consumed by me was 2 hot dogs, 4 sodas, popcorn, nachos, a bag of peanuts (though i took two sacks of nuts, harharhar) and two ice cream sandwiches (i originally asked for one, but when the man asked me a moment later how many i wanted i changed my mind to two ice cream sandwiches since i was feeling saucy). i pity the toilet that gets a visit from me first thing in the morning after all that ballpark food. 😛
the guy sitting in front of me was in his 20s as well and he and i talked baseball throughout the games and we’d jump around and high-five each other when good stuff would happen and we’d boo when bad stuff happened too.
at one point near the end when there were barely any people left in the stadium and you could hear individual people cheering across the park, there was a foul ball hit in the left-field stands. this guy in a yankees jacket tried to get the ball and as a few other folks ran over to find it we started yelling “DON’T LET THE YANKEE GET IT!” and we cheered when a guy in an orioles jersey came up with the ball.
the game itself didn’t let out until 12:30 am, and then it took forever for the light rail to get moving, and i didn’t get back here until 1:30-1:45 am. some guy waiting for the light rail was talking on his phone about how he and his friends “pissed off jay payton. again.”, and apparently jay payton gave someone the finger or something, haha.
i miss double-headers, though… those are fun. too bad they only have double-headers now when there’s a game that’s been rained out or something instead of scheduling them in the season. but i have to say that even though we lost both games (the second one was lost 9 to 7), i couldn’t have picked a better day for getting my ballpark food on.
anyway, i need to get into bed now before it’s too late again! i’ll complain about work-related stuff tomorrow.
Texas: 20 0 0 0
Texas: 20
0 0 0 5 0 9 0 6 –
Baltimore: 3
1 0 2 0 0 0 0 – –
Top of 8th
WTF ORIOLES. W. T. F. TWO GRAND SLAMS. TWO!
#4838 – for it's eat, drink, puke in the sink at the ol' ball game
what’s better than a baseball game? a free baseball game!
what’s better than a free baseball game? a free all-you-can-eat baseball game!
what’s better than a free all-you-can-eat baseball game? a free all-you-can-eat baseball game double-header!
yes, thanks to _venus_, i’m able to go to tonight’s o’s game with a free all-i-can-eat pass, and it just so happens that tonight is a double-header to make up monday night’s rained-out game. i’m going to definitely take advantage of this ballpark food. next stop? FATSVILLE. population? ME.
also, i have an idea for another orioles icon that i’ll have to make later.
also also, i’ve got an extra ticket to sunday afternoon’s game (with admission to the barbecue that my office will be having in the bullpen picnic area!) if anybody is interested… picnic is from noon – 1:30, game’s at 1:35, and i’m going to be going pretty much straight from there to the roller derby bout that evening.
killer don't care
it’s wet out, i’ve got a stuffed-up nose, i didn’t get to bed until 3 am and i kept waking up in the night, my work just cashed my tuition repayment checks for my statistics and journalism classes ($690 x 2), and there’s some b.s. at work that i’ll get into later tonight. i really don’t want to be here at work right now.
today it’s “killer don’t care” – i’m powered by coffee and laissez-faire. at least tonight is all-i-can-eat at the baseball game thanks to _venus_!