Stadium clubhouse, my wife and I were having the first taste of Dom Perignon of our lives.
The champagne was great. And, as my wife will attest, it tasted better with baseball.
Already, some of the greatest moments of our marriage have baseball ties.
The postseason trips to Oakland and to Yankee Stadium are just the longer versions.
I could tell you that we went to Camden Yards the day after our engagement and broke the news to my friends in the media.
We also took our entire out-of-town wedding party (there were 50 of us!) to Camden Yards the day after our wedding reception to see the Red Sox play the Orioles (believe it or not, the Orioles actually WON that game in 2003).
We’ve been on roadtrips to see the Orioles play in Arlington, Texas (it was a rare big weekend for Luis Matos in May 2003) and to Toronto in early 2004 (we got a picture with the mascot there, which is our little fun thing to do, taking pictures with fuzzy creatures)
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We’ve been on road trips to see the Red Sox as well. They were, coincidentally, in Detroit the weekend of my pal Scott Wachter’s wedding there in 2004, so we’ve been to Comerica Park. We also saw the Sox play the Cubs at Wrigley Field on a steamy Saturday afternoon last June.
She says our next roadie will be to see the Red Sox play in Seattle and I’m cool with that (it tells me that she’s really like me and that I married the right person!).
We’ve seen Barry Bonds play at Pac Bell Park (or whatever they’re calling it these days), we’ve seen the Dodgers from high atop Chavez Ravine and we’ve partied in the Gaslamp District for a Padres-Cubs game in 2005. nes/jenn at dodger stadium
The last two Red Sox trips into Philly for interleague play, we’ve been in the house with the Phanatic and that gray road BOSTON 11 jersey.
We went to visit Marvin Lewis last year at his home in Cincinnati. It was Mother’s Day. Marvin took us to the Reds-Dodgers ESPN Sunday Night game at Cinergy Field, where we sat like hotshots in a fancy club suite and ate chili cheese dogs and laughed all night. For the record, Marvin’s favorite Red was Wily Mo Pena.
We also try to get down to RFK Stadium when we get a chance to catch the Nats play. We have a bunch of funny pictures from their inaugural
