After (another) rain-wrecked game yesterday in Chicago, where I was supposed to see the White Sox host the Guardians with my friend Jim, I wasn’t super excited to see that THIS game was under a weather delay as well. But luckily, this one was only about 20 minutes before they got rolling. I took a…
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Comerica Park: a MIPA Reunion!
Over the last week or so I’ve attempted to get to three baseball games in three different cities. In two of those, Atlanta last week and Chicago yesterday, I saw a total of zero minutes of baseball. Detroit, both literally and figuratively, has been the ray of sunshine. A few months ago I started contemplating…
Truist Park, Atlanta GA
Well, our first experience at Truist Park was an interesting one, that’s for sure! A couple of months ago we started planning a trip to see family, both in the mountains of North Carolina and back home in Michigan. I of course figured that it would be best to try to see a few ballgames…
The Oakland Coliseum: the end of an era
Today was the Coliseum funeral that I expected, but in true Oakland fashion it was also somehow…fun. 46,000 friends and family filled the tired, crumbling ballpark one more time. We laughed and cried and high-fived and fist-bumped, we cheered and booed, we screamed ‘sell the team’ and ‘let’s go Oakland’ and a few somewhat more…