Holy crap what a night
 

For all of my bitterness lately, a good night should not go un-noticed.

Took the family to their first ballgame tonight. Indians are in town and last night they stomped on the Rays bad. It was embarrassing. But I got 4 tickets in decent outfield seats for about $70 and just had to go for it tonight in hopes that would do better....

I could type up the game summary but there are paid professionals for that sorta thing...

In summary, the Rays were getting stomped 7-0 early and they chipped away at it inning by inning and ended up winning with our lead-off man FINALLY breaking his awful slump and hitting his first HR of the season...about 6 rows over from where we were sitting. It was epic. My son had his cowbell and was going nuts with it and had so many old ladies cooing over him that he got a ball from one of them! So he got his first Major League ballpark ball tonight in his first game.

My throat is killing me from the screaming, but we got to see the Rays perform their best comeback victory in their short history so the pain is well worth it. I'm still winding down from the adrenaline or I'd be in bed. I have to take the 6 year old to a girl scouts trip at 8 AM so sleep is ripping into my psyche quickly. Just wanted to share some fun times.:popcorn:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290515130 <--the ESPN recap with video. I tried to see us but couldn't...oh well, I'll upload pics tomorrow.

Oh I almost forgot about this...the family also got to see a manager ejection in their first game!
http://a.espncdn.com/media/apphoto/5...c71227a629.jpg

And something I didn't see mentioned was the near brawl when a Rays reliever nearly took the head off an Indians batter. That was awesome.

sounds like fun.

Did the game provide any type of calming effect on you Merf?

great to see your son got a ball...that's such a cool experience.


o yea...I got to play ball on that field a couple years ago..that was cool!!

These are the things that we and our children remember and talk about. I know the feeling of the great comeback, I'm a Bills fan. (Remember Houston?) And a ballpark ball on top of it all. That's freaking awesome. Hope it has you feeling better.

Well, my throat still hurts so I can't yell at stupid people on the road today, if that counts.

Yeah it was good for me...it made me zen enough to create this thread afterall.
Oh yeah? On what capacity!?

Lol Wedge ejection. Good game overall. Indians fan here..

Indians suck. My neighbor is a major league umpire so he has thrown a few out himself.

Some images of the evening.

Oh and btw....thanks Indians for digging us out of our rut! Another win tonight...woot.

did you see the game when Crawford stole 6 bags! That was unreal! I have him fantasy baseball, ill take that 12 pts thank you very much :D

I watched it, but not at the game unfortunately. Dude is great, my seats were right behind him last night so got to see him on the move in the outfield.

cool :D I really wish i lived in a city that had MLB baseball. Im such a huge baseball fan and I have only been to 1 MLB game in my life, in Detroit @ Comerica Park. It went 16 innings and was so great. If I lived in a city that had a team, i would be at sooo many games. I just love it that much. We used to have a AAA team here, the Edmonton Trappers, but then they left and now we have some independent league team. It is just not the same.

P.S - Those "Rays Girls" look real nice :D especially the one on the right ;)