July 2011
1 post
7/4 - Chicago
Commitment to baseball, this one. Kate and I (and the two poor schlubs in our car) woke up at 7am in the middle of nowhere on the Northern Neck and drove three hours home to get there mostly in time for a 1pm start. I wore my affectatiously douchey red-white-blue hooped polo shirt, posed for a GQ photo by an abandoned church door, and then got completely upstaged with texts from my little brother...
June 2011
2 posts
6/23 - Seattle
Getaway day baseball, don’t tell my boss.
Remembered only the afternoon beforehand that my friend PMac was coming down from New York with his buddy for the express purpose of day drinking and creepily hitting on Arlington girls. It was a dreary morning, but ameliorated gradually over the day (sunglasses were a good bring), as I met PMac and Juice* at the Bullpen and sipped on the finest...
6/17 - Baltimore
Hey, it’s been a while.
Game 2 of the holiday three-pack (so I can score “Merry Christmas” points with the ladyfriend into the middle of the summer… that’s how that works, right?) and you couldn’t have picked a more beautiful evening up until ten minutes before gametime when the clouds rolled in ominously and five minutes before gametime when the lightning...
May 2011
1 post
5/15 - Florida
My parents were supposed to come down from New York to visit, then they cancelled on me, then they said they’d come down again, then they looked at the weather forecast and decided to take a miss, then they decided to come down anyway, so they/the ladyfriend/myself went to the Sunday afternoon game. Good to know where I get my decisiveness from. Even though it was supposed to thunderstorm...
April 2011
3 posts
4/30 - New York
There’s little better than getting a last minute reprieve from a late-night code push when your baseball team is at home. Grabbed the lady and a pair of $5 seats while we waited for Will and Cody to bike over (they made it despite Cody losing a flip-flop on North Capitol Street); played Rick Ankiel sudoku by writing “E”s and “L”s on every surface within fifteen feet...
4/15 - Milwaukee
This game cost negative two dollars. (Ordered a $4 Miller Lite at a bar on Thursday, they handed me a free ticket for the game today. The ticket came with a free $6 Miller Lite which tasted about 50% more luxurious.)
Met up with some friends who complained that they had to buy seats for the game, whereas I simply got in for nothing and walked down to where they were sitting in the top of the...
4/2 - Atlanta
Went with the ladyfriend again since we didn’t have much else to do on a closer-to-chilly-than-warm Sunday afternoon. The platonic form of Hoodie Weather, but it didn’t stop us from buying the first alcoslushies of the new season. Nats had won the day before and played well in both games so far, so I figured there’d be a crowd, and there was at least 20,000 folks in attendance,...
March 2011
1 post
3/31 - Atlanta
Baseball!
Went with the ladyfriend for the first of three games in the “Holiday 3-pack” I got her for Christmas, since when it’s the depths of winter you have grand visions of Opening Day on the last day of March being warmer than Christmas. Sometimes it isn’t. Spent the whole day freezing and regretting our respective choices of chucks as footwear. A $5 pregame tall boy...
