I'm ready to play!
Just picked up four tickets to take the family to Opening Day Nats v. Braves. We're gonna beat those Braves like a rented mule this year. 19 degrees here this morning with highs next week around freezing. (Very unseasonable for this area.) So, this should give me something to cling to for the next 5 weeks...
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
I'm jealous. STL opening day tickets are going to be about a bazillion dollars each and scarcer than hen's teeth. I am planning to go end of May, subject to 1,000 things changing...
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Not sure when we'll make the trip up for a game. Hopefully in Sept when there's a pennant race.
BKB
RACE! Race???? There's racing in Baseball? And I thought there was only crying...
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No crying in baseball. You're confused.
Lots of races.................
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One of my favorite old sayings told to me by a true son of Norway.........Cowboys don't cry and Indians don't give a fuck.
BKB
Cowboys don't cry. But all I've heard out of Baseball the last 10 years IS crying..... They are ALWAYS whinnying about something.
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Bucky, I went last year with a bunch of guys I used to run around with in my single days. I had a great time and we had awesome seats on the first base line about 10 rows from the field that we picked up after market. We also paid through the nose for them. (I don't remember the exact amount, but it was over $100 each.) This year I decided to pull the kids out of school and take the family. (Not all lessons are learned in a classroom.) At any rate, the tickets went on sale from the box office at 10am and I was waiting and ready with four browsers open. I picked up four about 20 rows above the Nats bullpen (right field) for $40 each. I think that's about a $15 premium over what these seats go for on a regular basis. As long as I feed the kids lunch at home before we go, it shouldn't break the bank.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
Well........some venues are a harder ticket than others.
The Cardinal website just put up the tickets for 2014. Opening day is GONE. Stubhub only has 4,000 total for opening day, STARTING at a hundred bucks.
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No doubt Cards tickets are probably harder to come by as they've got a couple of more years of history behind them. (And, a tad more success on the field...) However, Nats tix went on sale at 10am and there are only a few stray singles at the $80 and $100 level for Opening Day behind home plate available at this point. I just jumped on line right at 10am so I wouldn't have to go the Stub Hub route. For the rest of the season, I'll probably bottom feed off craigslist or go on scholarship with corporate seats through friends. It's a real luxury to not have to travel to see a game.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
You mean to tell me people actually PAY to watch a baseball game??? Sheeesh!
It beats watching cars go around in circles...
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
I agree with thump and CD both......kinda. That's money and time that could be spent fishing
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
Albert Einstein
I swear, I have tried HARD to get interested in NASCAR. After all, some very intelligent friends of mine are crazy about it.
I can't. I try all the time. It's impossible to get.
Reason? I suppose because I don't understand the nuances of it. I don't 'get it'............which is probably the same from them on baseball. Course, baseball is a bit harder to figure out...........and it's a microcosm of life.........and maybe baseball lends itself ok to TV, and cars in circles doesn't. Maybe that's it. I don't honestly know.
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Y'all are probably uncircumsized too.
BKB
They are certainly unwashed.
I'm sitting here with a Busch Stadium seating chart, printed out in color.........and trying to find tickets for our 44th anniversary, May 30.......a Friday....Giants are in town.......... But Yankees are there for a series ending Wednesday night.....and I'd sure like to see Jeter one last time, and beat the Yankees by 15 runs.....but these are hard tickets to come by already, unless I sit in nosebleed.............and I just might, just to get in the park............and skip Thursday night, and watch two games. But my goodness..........a month's salary for a 4 day trip.
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The Giants. Pshaw. One great run of about 20 games, one very strange pitching staff, and everyone thought they were world beaters. The world is realizing they were lucky is all.
Jonah Keri, who writes for Grantland, picked Buster Posey as his NL MVP at the All Star break last year. I challenged him on it and he got indignant with me. Quoted a bunch of park adjusted horseshit stats that the younger sportswriting crowd is all enamored with. Like WAR, and park adjusted average, and a bunch of other meaningless crap that says nothing about how a player actually plays on the field.
Anyway, I wouldn't walk to my mailbox to get a ticket out to see the Giants if the Yankees will be in town. that's historic.
BKB
My wife wants to see a Cardinal game on our anniversary.
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Then Giants it is! I'd kind of like to see Hunter Pence in person to see if he really can get all those arms and legs going as fast as they say he can. You staying in the honeymooners suite at the Lumiere? Maybe you'll run into Mike Shannon. Just don't get him so drunk before the game next time!
BKB
No, if I stay anywhere, it's the Hampton STL South probably.............but their rates have gone up.
Still just thinking on all this.
But we WILL eat at Shannon's..........grass fed beef......ONCE! $200 meal, but hey...........
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I think we ate at Joe Buck's place last time we went to a game. Not bad eats and a lot less expensive than Shannon's. I used to go to St Louis once a week on business several years ago and our office wasn't too far from Ozzies. I've drank a LOT of drinks at Ozzies. Never saw Ozzie there once though. Nor Harriet.
BKB
Been there too. Unimpressed. That's the West End........
Dang......I can't find a decent priced Hampton anywhere. And me with 29,785 points.........
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Do you go up to the Cape and go up from there?
BKB
Cape of Good Hope? No, that's about 18,000 miles.
????
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No. Cape Girardeau Missouri doofus. I'd think 40 over to 55 and up that way to St Louis might be your fastest route up there and there might be a Hampton around there that'd work for you. Its a cool town and only a couple hours from st Lou.
BKB
OH.
No, I usually go up US 67.........four lane all the way to Possum Grape, Arkansas.........................then speed trap mosquito-ville till some place in MO.....then more nice four lane to Fenton......then I55 rest of the way.
I also have a Drury Card........I may stay in one of those, further out. If I can't stay downtown (and I can't afford it), I just get plumb away from it to stay. Much cleaner and nicer........then drive and park downtown about 4-6 hours before gametime and walk around with the rest of the crazies. Best fun is when Cubs are in town. They are world's biggest jerks, and we love to harass 'em!!
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In all seriousness, we got a great rate at Lumiere last time we went up there. I think it was less than a hunnerd bucks a night. Plus you can walk to the ball park and McClede's Landing is right there and the arch and all that good stuff. You park once and don't see your vehicle until you're ready to leave. Pretty fair deal if you ask me.
BKB
I can't find that rate there...........if you do, show me how.
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Girardeau....
What am I, your travel agent?
BKB
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