The Last Game...Dollar Dogs and Fireworks

I can’t believe that the Cleveland Indians game was our last game! By that point, I think I was “baseballed out.” We had been to 9 games in 14 days! Andrew and I had a lot of fun watching all these games, and I have learned a lot about the game—probably more than I ever needed to know!

Anyway, we bought tickets at the box office asking for the cheapest available. We paid $18 for both tickets—cheapest game of them all! Progressive Field is very similar to all the newer ones we’ve been to. We took our usual lap around the concourse to scope out our food options, then we saw it—deep-fried heaven!! It was a vendor that only sold fried foods—funnel cakes, funnel fries, chicken fingers, fried twinkies, fried cookie dough, and…chicken and waffle sandwiches! Neither Andrew nor I had ever had one, so why not?

It was delicious dipped in syrup. Who ever thought of this combination??

It was also dollar dog day, but we decided to wait a bit to have one of those. Andrew only had 2 this time! I voted them the worst ballpark dogs we had, but I still ate it, so we could add it to the count! Not worth the calories. I’m pretty sure I’ve put on a few pounds just from all the hot dogs!!

Our seats were in the very last section on the end of the row—you can’t get much further from the field! It must have been high school student day or something because there were more high school students than I have seen in one place in a long time. Now, many of you know how much I love adolescents, so it was really fun being surrounded by them!! Now I understand why U.S. Cellular has a bullpen bar—for all those adults that need to get away from annoying youngsters!! Seriously, I have not seen so many boys spit in one place!! I couldn’t handle it—Andrew and I moved seats 3 times, but that didn't work; they were everywhere!

What made up for the many young ones was the baseball game. Usually, Andrew and I would cheer for the home team, but this game was different. We were cheering for the Kansas City Royals because the Indians were 1.5 games ahead of the White Sox. Apparently, we chose the right team to cheer for. The Royals had a great game! We saw another grand slam and 3 other homeruns!! After the grand slam (the 2^nd homerun by the same player), the pitcher proceeded to throw his next pitch right at the batter’s head. That got him ejected and cleared the benches—no blows were thrown though!

We left our seats one last time to sit in the corner of the upper deck. From here, we could see and hear John Adams a.k.a. The Drummer. He has been featured on ESPN and has his own Wikipedia page, which is where I am getting all of this information. He first brought his bass drum (which he purchased a ticket for) to a game in 1973 where the Indians won. Since then, he sits in the same seat, at the top of the bleachers in center field. He has only missed 34 games since 1973--that is less than 1 a year!! The Indians now pay for his seats and have had a bobble head day for him!! On April 27, 2011, he played his drum for the 3,000^th game.

Since it was our last game, I thought it was necessary to get ice cream in a baseball helmet. They loaded in the ice cream--best deal ever!

Taken from our final seats!

I must say though, we saw the best fan wave at this game. it made it around the stadium 4 times!! I guess the fans needed something to do while their team was losing 12-0!

We were actually really lucky to be at the game this weekend. It was the annual Rock and Blast where they put on a fireworks show set to music. It is put on by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Friday night was classic rock night--perfect for Andrew! The fireworks lasted about 30 minutes and were pretty amazing.

The best picture we could get with our camera at night J