Take me out to the ball game
Posted: April 23rd, 2009 | Author: Bone | Filed under: Philadelphia |

Me, Tigg, and Hillary went to see the Phillies on Tuesday night. They were doing a 2-for-1 ticket offer, and whilst they weren’t the best tickets (up on the top level), but at $11 a pop we couldn’t complain, and the view was actually pretty good.

Baseball seems to be a very sociable sport to go and watch in America, people go there to hang out and chat, almost watch the game, and drink some $6.75 beers. It’s pretty hard to follow what’s happening in the game, since it’s hard to tell a foul ball from a strike, but it’s still a lot of fun.

Even though it was sunny at the start of the game, things took a turn for the worse around the 5th inning, and by the 7th it was raining so hard that they called a delay. Ironically, because we had bough the cheapest seats, we actually got a lot less wet than those that paid 7 times more. They put the Flyers (ice hockey) game on the jumbotron (who were playing in the Wachovia Center just across the Sports Complex), and it was pretty cool to watch the game with however many fans had stayed at the game, because they were actually chanting and cheering the team on, but we left after a little while thinking that they’d call off the game (though apparently they did finish out later that evening, around 11:30).

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