I went to see my Dodgers play in Milwaukee, in an attempt to see them play in all 30 baseball stadiums in the country. Miller Park is awesome. There is a sausage race. They have cheese fries in a helmet. There is tailgating with beanbag toss games. There are more brats and sausages and beer than one can possibly consume. It is amazing.
If you ever wanted to know the best section of Dodger Stadium for titties, I am hereby submitting my vote for Reserve section 18. All of this happened in a matter of minutes.
Now I know that those in Field may have more cash to pay for the surgery, but it appears the reserve girls are not afraid to show off their goods.
How can anyone watch the game with these things swarming about? I asked for my money back and was turned down. Lessons learned.
Am I on TV? Can you see me now? How about now? How about now? NOW?
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I have been sad as of late. The Dodgers playoff games keep getting scheduled in the middle of the day. Game 2 of the NLCS was scheduled for 1:30pm on a weekday. Game 2 of the NLDS was at 3pm on a weekday. This is getting stupid.
Now I understand we’re playing an east coast team. I also understand that people need to make money and there are TV ratings and advertising executives to please and all that. But give me a fucking break. Dodger fans are loyal, devoted people. Though we take a lot of shit about getting to games late and leaving early and whatever generalizations are made, there are some of us who do go to 40 games a year and really, really want to be at the playoffs. And it’s getting to be difficult.
It’s clear they don’t expect anyone to be watching the Dodgers-Phillies anyway. No one in LA can watch it at 1pm during work, and even on the east coast, how many people are home from work by 4pm to flip on the game. My guess is that if you started the Yankees at 5:30pm EST and the Phillies at 8:30pm EST, you’d have a larger audience than putting it right in the middle of the Friday work day at 1:30pm PST. I’m no TV executive, but I am a person who has a job and common sense.
So now I’m forced to choose every time the Dodgers play another game: skip work, or skip the game? I can’t imagine that any patient would be happy to know that their doctor skipped out on their appointment to go to a baseball game. Usually people consider their doctors’ appointments to be relatively important, and I feel I should do the same. But then of course, I am stuck in the office while the game is going on, and every pitch that I miss pains me just a little bit more. And I’m not the only one. There are a lot of people out there who are afraid to take off of work because jobs are relatively unstable right now and everyone’s afraid of pissing off the wrong person and getting laid off. So we are conscientious and work hard, and therefore can’t watch baseball.
Please, MLB. Stop putting working America in this position. We’re trying to be good people here. Let us have our baseball.
The Dodgers rallied to come from behind in the bottom of the 9th with two outs after Matt holliday dropped what would have been the 3rd out. It was a glorious moment. One of the best games I’ve been at.
I know I’m behind in the blogging. Sorry, but it’s the postseason! GO DODGERS GO.
Dedicated to a Kindred Spirit:
I have popped a number of beach balls in my time. My first was in 2003. My record is 4 in one game on August 16, 2004. And no, despite the pleadings of those around me, I will not stop.
1) The beach balls are a distraction from the game. If you don’t want to watch the game, don’t come. Go to the park. Or the beach. I can tell you need some exercise.
2) Beach balls are not allowed at Dodger Stadium for a reason. Playing keep-away from the ushers is juvenile. If you can get Dodger Stadium to allow them and condone their existence in the ballpark, I promise I will stop popping them. I follow the rules at Dodger Stadium because I respect it. Hitting around a beach ball is a sign of disrespect to me, the players, and the game.
3) No, I don’t like the wave. This is because in the past two seasons, in a total of 73 games, I have not ONCE seen the Dodgers score during the wave. So I consider it unlucky and I won’t participate in it. However never in my life have I prevented anyone from doing the wave so your mature and creative visual of me stabbing people for standing up are funny but untrue.
4) I don’t give a fuck if your kid likes hitting them. That’s probably because you aren’t doing a good enough job getting them interested in the game. And clearly you aren’t teaching your kid to respect the game, respect the stadium rules, or respect Vin Scully. Bring the kid a transformer if he’s so fucking bored.
5) Balls end up on the field. It’s dangerous, it’s distracting, it’s annoying. It causes a delay of game. It breaks up the flow. Outfielders could trip on them. It’s embarrassing.
6) Vin Scully hates them too. Need I say more?
Sorry, I know the crowd loves it, but I am sick of chubby 8th inning Journey lip sync-ing guy. He sits in loge, somewhere around aisle 123 row F, and they show him at every game, and he makes these horrible faces and hand gestures and at the end makes “super serious face” and points to his Dodger cap and the camera guys love him. Now he even has a little plastic microphone and they’ve un-delayed the cameras so that it matches up to the music (rather than the 2 second delay that used to make it look kind of odd) and that’s really great that they love him THAT much and that the crowd thinks it’s funny but some of us are really tired of it and I’m speaking for my section only and really that’s all I had to say because I am cranky and a bitch and I hate watching people have fun and want to bring a dark cloud over humanity or maybe I just hate seeing other season ticket holders get more attention than I do, not that I have a need to be on Dodgervision because I really don’t, unless of course it would help spread the word of my blog that might be kind of nice anyway I’ll get a photo of him and you can see what I’m talking about.
Interestingly enough, she didn’t put any names on it. She wrote (in magic marker) “go #5, #16, #38, #7″ etc. For some reason, that’s not inspirational to me. Come on. You had a blank white shirt and a magic marker and that’s the design you came up with? Are you afraid people are going to get traded so you don’t actually want to commit to writing their names? It’s not like you spent any money here.
This wouldn’t be irritating if it weren’t for the shorts, you understand this I hope.