[NOTE: this is several weeks old.  our camera won't connect directly to the computer anymore and i was waiting on that for the photo uploads.  SD card reader does the trick, so here goes old baseball post] 

Went to two Braves games this weekend, both against the Dodgers.  I was hoping the Braves thing of “selling food from the visiting team” would mean there would be a stand somewhere that was selling Dodger Dogs, but I must have dreamed up all of that, because there was no such animal.  Guess I’ll have to fly out the Hell (aka L.A.) and go to Chavez Ravine to get one some time.

Saturday, May 5.  Dodgers 6 – Braves 3.

Went to this game with a group of 8 – Wade, myself, Katy, Katy’s brother, Michael, Luke, Tom and Rachel.  I bought tickets for the group on Friday afternoon and ended up with super duper sweet seats.  They were in the upper deck, 8 rows back, directly behind home plate.  The killer part was that row 8 was behind and above a section for handicapped seating, so we were basically the first row in the third little tier of seating, which meant nobody was in front of us and we had a rail to put our feet up on and kick back.  Awesome.  The only thing that kind of stunk was the 40 year old virgin that occupied the 9th seat in the row.  This guy was seriously who that movie was made about.  He was probably 40-45 years old, pretty large and in charge, and was full-on super geek.  He knew way too much Braves trivia, but the really bad part was that he needed friends and wouldn’t stop trying to talk with us about nothing.  If he was saying something interesting about the game, Wade (who was next to him) or I (who was next to Wade) probably would have engaged him in conversation from time to time.  But, since it was “that was a foot outside, am I right?” every single time a Braves player had a strike called on them, we tried for the “if he gets no response, he’ll stop” approach.  Not this guy.  He just kept going and going.  Oddly, for somebody who seemed to be a genuine baseball and Braves fan, he left before the bottom of the 9th inning with the Braves down 6-1.  They made some noise, gave us something to cheer about and then lost 6-3.  Oh well, still exciting, and definitely a good time to see the crew of friends that came to the game. 

Braves vs. Dodgers, 05.05.07

Sunday, May 6.  Dodgers 4 – Braves 6

Ah, fun in the sun.  This game was really a good time.  Kyle Davies started for the Braves and did really well until he gave up 2 runs in the 5th inning (I think) and then a two-run pinch-hit home run to Wilson Betemit (who hit a pinch-hit homerun the night before, saying “thanks for trading me”).  The Braves were down 4-1 in the 7th, but hit around and scored 5 runs to take the lead.  Totally awesome inning.  A few times, it was that great tense feeling where you are so nervous you don’t want to look.  They did a bit of that damage with two outs, and Chipper Jones (and Bobby Cox?) was ejected after being called out on a check-swing that was definitely not a swing.  That got the crowd riled up and made it even more tense.  Fun stuff.  Katy and I went to this one in the regular seats we have this year and soaked up the sun.  Good stuff.

Braves vs. Dodgers, 05.06.07