One of the perks of going to dental school is that sometimes someone puts together a great activity for everyone and their families to enjoy. This last Friday, a group that connects the significant others of the dental students were able to get cheap tickets for a Cleveland Indians game. Needless to say, we jumped on the opportunity. Cleveland has a team in all the big leagues except one. We've got the Indians in MLB, the Cavaliers in the NBA, and the Browns in the NFL. Unfortunately for us, since we both love soccer so much, there is no MLS team. But we have decided that we'll do the best we can to become fans of the local teams...though it may be difficult to support the ever-dreadful Browns (and besides, their team colors are horrible! Who would want to wear an orange hat besides a hunter?)!
Dave picked up the tickets a couple weeks early at school and then we counted down the days. Mindy has been to a couple San Diego Padres games back in the day, but Dave has never been to a Major League game and was very excited. We headed to downtown once Mindy got home from work. We decided to go to the Tower City mall to find a place to eat. We settled on the Hard Rock Cafe and both ordered huge 10 oz. burgers. We were both surprised that Dave could finish his, must have been the bacon.
We then headed to Jacob's Field for the game. Earlier in the day, when Dave looked up how to get to the stadium, he thought he read that we were suppose to enter at Gate E. Well, after circling around the whole stadium, he realized that he must have been mistaken and that Gate E didn't exist. So we went in Gate A only to discover that we had to go around to the opposite side of the stadium to get to our seats. We finally got to our seats at the bottom of the first inning.Our seats were in the mezzanine in Right Field. We had a great view of the stadium and were surrounded by 180 other dental students and their families.
It was a great night. We stuck around til the 6th inning when the Indians hit two homers in a row and then get load the bases. We decided to leave when the A's manager finally decided to switch pitchers. We didn't want to be stuck in traffic so decided it was best to leave then. We had a great time and look forward to next season when we'll hopefully be able to get tickets to when the Yankees come to town since they're Dave's favorite team. But until then, Go Tribe!
2 comments:
Jonathan was about the same age as you David when he finally went to his first major league game. Although it was a Dodger game and I'm pretty sure we lost. Not to mention we sat in the nose bleed section. Still fun though. Glad to see your becoming such a cultured young man. :-)
The Yankees?!!???? What kind of a wierdo are you? The Yankees? Really? I'm just tickled pink that Barry Bonds got the boot from the Giants! (Dacia's family baseball team is the Giants...They go to games with Grandpa Reeves, Dacia's maternal Grandfather.) You know, I don't think I've ever been to a major league game either! Sounds like you guys had a blast!!
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