How Not to Watch Baseball
Last night I took M to the game. It was a work event. The company acquired 40 tickets. Only 31 signed up, so names for an extra ticket were drawn out of a hat, and we got lucky.
C was quite jealous, but he got to go the the playoff game last October, so it was only fair that M go.
While it was a good game, it was hard to watch. My work colleagues were far more interested in socializing (and drinking company purchased beer) than watching the game, so they were up and down and all around and most of the time the view was blocked. Very disappointing for an 8 year old. Plus, I had to explain baseball to a couple of people. Although no one asked me the question a nephew asked last summer when we saw a game out west ("When's halftime?" Seriously.), one guy thought the main area of play was in front of the bullpen and was quite surprised when action started happening elsewhere.
I was glad to be there, and glad to have a night out with M, but we both would have enjoyed really being able to pay attention to the game more. Oh well. M insisted he wanted to stay until the very end, and we did. Then we got him a shirt of his favorite player. He fell asleep in the car on the way home, and was extra tired this morning, but he gave me lots of hugs during the game last night, and I'll hold on to those.
PM, nice homer by your boyfriend in the 2nd.
1 comment:
Re: my boyfriend. He's sure having a good stretch.... (heart, heart, heart)
Glad you were able to spend time with M even if it would have been nicer to be able to focus more on the game. He's going to remember being with YOU. Who's his favorite player? (JE?)
We watched a very exciting game last night between the Braves and the Cardinals. :-) Q had a triple and stole home a couple of times. This was for the regular season championship, and unfortunately, Q's team lost 7-6.
BTW, because we were at Q's game, we missed being able to see the RS on ESPN (Hi-def!) last night. :-( Bummer.
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