Home Run Derby, what Home Run Derby
Not when there's Pee Wee Baseball to play.
I did turn it on about 9:30. That is a beautiful ball park. Next summer I might take Jack on an East Coast baseball trip, but how about a Midwest trip sometime - Cincinnati, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago. Very doable.
Update: Back to the Pee Wee game. It was 21-19 us. 21-10 going into the bottom of the last. They reeled off 9 runs. Everyone was going crazy. I was having a heart attack. The kids were ambivalent.
I did turn it on about 9:30. That is a beautiful ball park. Next summer I might take Jack on an East Coast baseball trip, but how about a Midwest trip sometime - Cincinnati, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago. Very doable.
Update: Back to the Pee Wee game. It was 21-19 us. 21-10 going into the bottom of the last. They reeled off 9 runs. Everyone was going crazy. I was having a heart attack. The kids were ambivalent.
Posted by David on
July 11, 2006
Day One: day game in DC (do the trip in 2008 so the new park is open) and night game in Baltimore at Camden Yards.
Day Two: Philly for CB Park
Day Three: Williamsport for a day of early-round LLWS games then Pittsburgh for PNC
Day Four: Cleveland for The Jake
Day Five: Detroit for Comerica
Day Six: Chicago for a day game at Wrigley and night game at The Cell
Day Seven: St. Louis for new Cardinal Stadium
Day Eight: Indy for Victory Field and the first minor league stop on the tour
Day Nine: Cincy for a day game at Great American and a night game at Fifth Third Field, home of the class A Dayton Dragons
Day Ten: Drive Home from Dayton.
Ten days, ten MLB ballparks, 2 epic minor-league ballparks, and a day at the Little League World Series. Figure $15 per ticket and 2 people on the trip and that's $300 for MLB tickets and let's say $30 for minor league tickets. 9 nights in a hotel, $500. Food, another $300. Gas, another $400. Souvenirs, incidentals, etc. another $300. Figure $1500 for the total trip.
Better have a comfortable car. Chicago to St Louis is 300 miles. Detroit to Chicago is 300 miles. Philly to Pitt is 300 miles.
Great memories. Hope you and Jack can do it, especially Wrigley.
How about this for a fall weekend sometime? Cubs and White Sox on Friday. Notre Dame football on Saturday. Bears on Sunday.
My only memory of ND, unfortunately, in those younger days was of waking up just long enough to see TD Jesus before passing out again. We had visited a really cool bar in Chicago the night before. I wish I could remember the name.
I did recover in time to enjoy a ballgame in Cleveland, though.
When we visited Wrigley, we didn't have enough tickets. Somebody at the hotel heard about our plight and sold (or gave, I can't remember) us the few we needed. Turned out they were only two rows behind the ones we had which was down the first-base line.
I'd love to do that trip again.