I went to the River Cat's game at Railey Field against the Tacoma Rainiers last Friday with my best friend and her family. Let me tell you, it was awesome! My best friend's mother-in-law bought a package of tickets that she can redeem at any time for any regular season game. It was the first baseball game I've been to since high school with Kennedy's marching band.
While we were waiting for the rest of our group to get there, the topic of the moment was this Transformer looking thing in the construction zone. It was pretty crazy looking, it didn't even look like it had a purpose there... just a fancy construction ornament. I'm pretty sure it was a Decepticon because it looked pretty awkward... too awkward to explain in blog form.
It was Toyota Family Value Friday which meant $1 hot dogs and desserts. When we got through the gate we were greeted by Rhythm and Shoes Tap Dancers. They tap danced to 50's music We didn't stay long to watch. We found our seats and headed to get our hot dogs and sodas before the game started.
My best friends niece got a baseball bat that she kept hitting people with and dropping... I was dubbed Sir Dusty! We also gave her a sweat jacket that we got her at the gift shop when we redeemed the tickets earlier that week. She absolutely loved it!
We got the $1 desserts, catered by Big Spoon Yogurt, during the middle of the game. They advertised strawberry, vanilla or chocolate ice cream. By the time we got there all that was left was chocolate and it was pre-packaged at the ice cream shop so it was frozen solid. It tasted like frozen chocolate pudding.
Sometime during the game started raining popcorn... It came from the 2 clowns that we invited in the seats behind us. I guess the popcorn buckets are so big that you feel compelled to throw it in the row in front of you because you can't finish it.
They did a lot of events in between innings. they tossed t-shirts into the crowd and played games on the field. Nobody won anything major. We did a lot of the chants that the marching band does at Sac State football games at the baseball game. Some of the chants didn't quite fit but we didn't realize it until after we did it.
While the game was going on there was this bratty little kid, about 5 years old, that would hang around one of our group members. Her parents would try to discipline her but she would just get mad, hit them, continue what she was doing and she would get away with it!... I'm not a parent and I don't have any parenting experience but i don't think that should be acceptable.
The game started out well. At the end of the first inning the Rainiers didn't score and we had 1 run. The score board didn't change until the 4th inning. After that my selective memory kicked in... lets just say the final score was 5-2. It was the first loosing River Cats game I've been to but it was also the most fun and eventfull.
the official game article:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110611&content_id=20326644&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&sid=t105
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