A Night Out At the Ballpark

Last Saturday Brooklyn, Maddux, Nolan & I had a night out at the ballgame with their cousins. There were 7 kids, myself and then Greg and Tacie. We had really good seats and the weather was quite nice. It was suppose to be fan appreciation night as it was one of their last home games for the year but fan appreciation night and the Indians are not all that impressive. However, the kids had a lot of fun and the Indians ending up winning the game (hasn't happened all that often this year) so overall it was a very good night. The kids could pretty much run all over the ballpark and do whatever they wanted as there was not many people at the game. We had 3 rows of field box seats to ourselves which made things for us really nice. In between every inning the kids could run down right to the dugout in hopes of getting a ball or prize being throw out. They also got to mingle with Slider, the Indians mascot, as well as the racing hotdogs (Ketchup, Mustard & Onion) during the game. I didn't get a picture of it but Slider actually came up and gave Brooklyn a kiss on the head just before the game started. She was pretty excited about that.


The girls chowing down on some York Peppermint Patty M&M's during the game. I don't know how many bags of candy the kids ate that night but it was enough that I was not bothered about getting cotton candy at all.


Nolan taking in his first Major League Game. I don't think he really cared about being there as much as he did just hanging out with his cousins and being a part of the crowd.


Maddux with glove in hand. I don't think he took that thing off once during the whole game. No matter where he went or what he did he always had his glove on. Unfortunately, despite having very good seats right on the third base line we didn't have a foul ball come even close to us. One of these days we will get one.

Anyways, we had a really fun time and even though the Indians stunk it up big time this year it is always good to get out and spend a night at the ballgame. Maybe they can turn things around in the next couple of years and bring some excitement back to the city.