As a fat kid that was often abused by the jocks in school I've never had much use for organized sports. But my son (seven years old) is turning out to be quite the athlete and I don't want to inhibit that so I got tickets to Friday's home game for our local AAA Baseball team (the Scranton-Wilke Barre Red Barons).
It was fun. Only about 7,000 fans showed up to the 25,000 seat stadium: we ended up 10th row back from the home dugout with nobody else in our row so plenty of room to stretch. The game was a little one-sided. The Barons were up 7 to 1 in the 6th partly thanks to a grand slam in the third and ended up 7-3. Lots of goodwill in the stands, no crap from the players. I was also surprised how much of the rules baseball I remembered... I told him (surprisingly enough, correctly) how a ground-rule double worked and what both "RBI" and "ERA" stood for. He had a lot of fun - but got a little fidgety near the end. The stadium does a pretty impressive fireworks display after every Friday game so that capped the evening well. I'm not sure if he's going to stick with it but all told I wouldn't mind so much if he did. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212052 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
