For the past two weekends, we have attended Baybears baseball games, where your ticket comes with two free hot dogs. Kate was into the hot dogs. You mention baseball, she’ll channel Yello and in that ‘oooh yeaah’ voice, will tell you HOT DOOOOGGGG.
Click on the audio link below to hear Kate discuss baseball over dinner. (I’ve taken to audio capture dinner, since it’s when she talks the most.) Listen for the HOT DOG at around 2:50.
But, as Kate points out in her discussion, there are more than hot dogs with the Baybears. You could also be one of the lucky kids to get a coupon for a free taco by chasing the giant taco across the field between innings.
Popcorn and drinks have free refills. And if some random football player that I’ve never heard of (which means any past or present footballer) can throw the pigskin out of the park, everyone gets a coupon for a free Hardee’s sausage biscuit. Folks in Mobile are serious about their junk food.
I got in a little sports photography.
And a few of the kids, when we weren’t wrestling Kate or keeping Will from ODing on diet Pepsi. (I did do the good Mommy thing and bring smuggled in drinks for the kids… they just didn’t last long.)
Kate.
After a ‘tribute to the services’ where each branch of service has their musical moment and standing recognition, there are fireworks. Pretty darn decent fireworks, all things considered. I didn’t have the tripod the first week. But I was able to get Kate’s face lit up from the explosions reflecting on the glass. The first weekend this was possible because there weren’t as many people in the stands. The second week, with the tripod, they let me on the field during the fireworks, but there were too many people to really get what I wanted… which was more of this picture below, just better.
Here’s Paul and Will. BOOM.
The weekend of the Fourth, Emily and Skip were in town! Will was Uncle Skip’s Mini-Me.
I had the tripod and was able to get some standard fireworks shots… but there were too many people to get the crowd shot I wanted. I like this one because it reminds me a bit of the final home run in ‘The Natural’.
This is the best I could do at getting everyone’s faces lit up by the fireworks.
Christoph | 15-Jul-08 at 7:41 am | Permalink
Minor league baseball is incredibly underrated, and I’m glad your kids are enjoying it. Sounds like you like the same things about it that I do: The crowds are more friendly (definitely more family friendly than Dodger Stadium, I’ll tell you that), parking’s better, there’s usually a ridiculous food promotion and the players are more accessible. Heck, I got to sit in the press box once, which makes me special. Minor league baseball rocks.