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susandennisMy evenings are spent with my feet up enjoying TV and crochet. A Mariner game is the opposite. It's loud and it's frantic and it's getting up and down a million times to let people by and people OMG.
So every morning after is a real morning after. And today's no different. I just roll with it. But I am so goggy.
Last night's game was wild in so many ways. As expected, the stadium was full of Canadians. A baseball game has rhythm that is really the crowd. Often you can't see the details of a play that happens far from you but you can judge the success (did he catch it cleanly) by the roar of the crowd near the play. With a Blue Jay's game in Seattle, every play has a crowd to celebrate it. So if the Blue Jay fielder catches the ball, he gets a celebratory roar instead of a home town groan. It's disconcerting. But, fun.
One of the ushers told me last night that one of their biggest challenges with Blue Jays games is that the drinking age in Canada is 19 and when those 19, and 20 year olds get here and can't get their beer, it can get a little ugly.
And we won the game nicely. Fingers crossed for tonight.
But perhaps the most interesting thing happened before the game. I usually finish dinner early and go out and sit in my seat and watch batting practice and other field stuff. So Last night, it was just me and the usher (one of my favs) and this really handsome guy who was fiddling with the QR code* sticker on the arm of a seat next to mine. The usher and I chat a lot most games when there's nobody out there but me and we had talked at length about the situation next year. So she tells Handsome "now, here's one of our best season ticket holders that we're going to lose next year" And Handsome perks up and starts asking me all kinds of questions - big ones and little ones. He wants info. "I'm Malcolm and I'm in charge of fan experience". Turns out, he's sits about 1 rung down from the top of the Mariner ladder in position created last March - Vice President of Fan Experience. It was a great conversation and I learned some cool stuff. And, hopefully, so did he. We talked about the price increase and the club and why I wasn't coming back and no, I won't be spending that cash on cheaper seats and here's why, etc. It was a really fun and fascinating conversation.
After he left, the usher and, of course, discussed him thoroughly. He's one of those people whose looks are ok until he starts to talk to you and his face and his eyes and his focus turn him into a truly handsome man. It was wild.
*Each seat in the Diamond Club has a QR code on the arm. It's how you order food and drink at your seat. When I was first a Diamond Club member they used paper menus with little golf pencils - a truly awkward system. Turns out Malcolm was the brains behind the conversion to the QR codes.
Now, if old Malcolm goes back, after our talk, and tells them to sell me a 20 game package to the new space, I'll be screwed. I've already spent the $9k (which is really only $6k) in my head a couple of times over. Oh well.
Today I have nothing that I have to do which is great because - paragraph 1 above.
But, I feel like I should take the car out and test the tire situation because it's Friday and I don't want to leave it for the weekend. But, why not? I've really got nothing planned and no where I need to go this weekend either.
Yesterday afternoon, I watched a movie on Hulu - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. I rarely watch movies and even more rarely find ones that grab me. And this one might well be appealing only to old ladies It sure got this one. Wow. Beautifully done.
Ok, time to get up and brush my teeth and figure out today. Oh and treadmill.
So every morning after is a real morning after. And today's no different. I just roll with it. But I am so goggy.
Last night's game was wild in so many ways. As expected, the stadium was full of Canadians. A baseball game has rhythm that is really the crowd. Often you can't see the details of a play that happens far from you but you can judge the success (did he catch it cleanly) by the roar of the crowd near the play. With a Blue Jay's game in Seattle, every play has a crowd to celebrate it. So if the Blue Jay fielder catches the ball, he gets a celebratory roar instead of a home town groan. It's disconcerting. But, fun.
One of the ushers told me last night that one of their biggest challenges with Blue Jays games is that the drinking age in Canada is 19 and when those 19, and 20 year olds get here and can't get their beer, it can get a little ugly.
And we won the game nicely. Fingers crossed for tonight.
But perhaps the most interesting thing happened before the game. I usually finish dinner early and go out and sit in my seat and watch batting practice and other field stuff. So Last night, it was just me and the usher (one of my favs) and this really handsome guy who was fiddling with the QR code* sticker on the arm of a seat next to mine. The usher and I chat a lot most games when there's nobody out there but me and we had talked at length about the situation next year. So she tells Handsome "now, here's one of our best season ticket holders that we're going to lose next year" And Handsome perks up and starts asking me all kinds of questions - big ones and little ones. He wants info. "I'm Malcolm and I'm in charge of fan experience". Turns out, he's sits about 1 rung down from the top of the Mariner ladder in position created last March - Vice President of Fan Experience. It was a great conversation and I learned some cool stuff. And, hopefully, so did he. We talked about the price increase and the club and why I wasn't coming back and no, I won't be spending that cash on cheaper seats and here's why, etc. It was a really fun and fascinating conversation.
After he left, the usher and, of course, discussed him thoroughly. He's one of those people whose looks are ok until he starts to talk to you and his face and his eyes and his focus turn him into a truly handsome man. It was wild.
*Each seat in the Diamond Club has a QR code on the arm. It's how you order food and drink at your seat. When I was first a Diamond Club member they used paper menus with little golf pencils - a truly awkward system. Turns out Malcolm was the brains behind the conversion to the QR codes.
Now, if old Malcolm goes back, after our talk, and tells them to sell me a 20 game package to the new space, I'll be screwed. I've already spent the $9k (which is really only $6k) in my head a couple of times over. Oh well.
Today I have nothing that I have to do which is great because - paragraph 1 above.
But, I feel like I should take the car out and test the tire situation because it's Friday and I don't want to leave it for the weekend. But, why not? I've really got nothing planned and no where I need to go this weekend either.
Yesterday afternoon, I watched a movie on Hulu - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. I rarely watch movies and even more rarely find ones that grab me. And this one might well be appealing only to old ladies It sure got this one. Wow. Beautifully done.
Ok, time to get up and brush my teeth and figure out today. Oh and treadmill.
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Date: 2022-07-08 07:22 pm (UTC)when I was in Toronto I attended a Blue Jays game - they were playing the Yankees. I love T/O and the BlueJays, and the person who was the absolute rudest sat right next to me. The Yankees had already won their division and their best players were not playing (turns out they shouldn't have bothered...) and the guy next to me was pissed. He got very drunk, vomited all over...tell ya, those Yankee fans.
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Date: 2022-07-09 02:47 pm (UTC)Similar situation with Yankees game at Fenway, one of which we attended last night. It seemed that there an especially large number of Yankee fans in our vicinity. And, alas, the Yankees dominated the game to such an extent that when the visiting fans started up a "Let's go, Yankees!" the Sox fans were mostly too dispirited to shout them down.
Oh, and the game took almost four hours. Not the most fun I've ever experienced at a ballgame.
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Date: 2022-07-09 09:16 pm (UTC)That is cool you got to have that conversation.