Saturday, May 17, 2008

Opening Day...

Yesterday was opening day at the new AIRHOGS stadium in Grand Prairie. Since I have an "IN" with a city official over there, I scored AWESOME seats to the game. Like second row directly behind home plate. Definitely not too shabby.

And the question about whether or not the catcher has "crack" when squating down so low is finally answered...


Yes, we were THAT close...


The view from across the stadium...


The home team (GO AIRHOGS!)...


The final batter...


So, yeah. The Airhogs lost their first home game. They made up for it by allowing the fans to run the bases (Weeeeeee!)...


If they hadn't run out of popcorn (and maybe won their stadium opener), it would have been the perfect evening. Here's to a summer of minor league baseball!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My very first job at age 12 was selling programs at a minor league Cubs affiliate in Midland. It was a lot of fun. Minor league is so much more fun than major league if you don't mind the quality of baseball. And running out of popcorn - making popcorn was my job the second year - for shame!!!

~Jef

Anonymous said...

if you look very close in the last picture you can see me sliding into home...i only took out two kids.