Category Archives: Baseball

Play Ball!!!

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Last week the Yogi’s went to see our AA Tulsa Drillers play Midland at Driller’s Stadium at the County Fairgrounds. I love Driller’s Stadium but this is its last year. They are moving into a fancy new field in downtown Tulsa next year. I’m sure I’ll like it also, but I’m going to miss Driller’s Stadium

Sweetie and SuperPizzaBoy hate baseball but it was Fireworks Night and SPB loves the treats. So they indulge me on Fireworks nights. As you can tell they come well prepared. Sweetie brought her crackberry and son brought a Harry Potter book.

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Sweetie trys to act interested, she asks every now and then if anybody has scored a touchdown or not. She does that even though I score the games and give her a running commentary about what the guy batting did last time he was up or what he did last time we are at the game. I think the whole scoring thing kind of embarrasses her. It is kind of nerdy but I find it fun. I have score books from when I lived in Houston back in the 80’s and had season tickets to the Astros and later when I lived in Dallas and went to Ranger’s games.

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One think about the stadium I love is that with the everpresent Oklahoma south wind the outfield flag always looks wonderful, especially against a pretty eastern sky at sunset.

Flag at Drillers Stadium

“Finally” said Sweetie and SPB, “the game is over!” time for some fireworks.

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My World – Tulsa Driller’s Baseball Game

One day last week SuperPizzaBoy and I decided to go to the ball game. Tulsa’s Drillers, our AA Minor League team. They played the Corpus Christi Hooks (like in pirate Captain Hook, get it?) The Drillers are affiliated with the Colorado Rockies.

He is not called SuperPizzaBoy for nothing folks.

After the Star Spangled Banner: “Play Ball.”

Got to have a little ice cream, right?

The kid takes a half decent picture. Of course, he didn’t have much to work with.

Lights are getting a little low. We left early. Look at the view from our seats. $6 each, free parking!

The Drillers are moving next year to a new ballpark downtown, ONEOK Stadium.
Can’t wait.

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Dunkin Donuts Coffee, Natural Gas, Baseball, and a Music Recital

A lot has been happening lately not much of it involves being able to exercise but I’ve been eating like a horse. Plus my Health Club has closed their downtown branch facility which is depressing because I love running at noon. The main health club is wonderful but I have to use it in the morning because it is too darned far from downtown to workout if I stay up too late the night before. I’ve been checking out my options.

So, I eat, don’t work out and get fat. Big deal right? Join the crowd. At least I can get up early and drink my Dunkin Donut coffee and read blogs. You can check out this contact form, if you need donut franchise information.  I was drinking my coffee, wondering what to eat for breakfast, and clicked on one of my favorite blogs, “Jiggety Jigg,” this morning and it was about Dunkin Donut coffee as a cure for constipation. I about spilled my coffee and decided to put off breakfast for later. Google it, there is whole subculture out there! You learn something every day. I told Sweetie about it now we’re going back to Starbucks. (Just kidding.)Now for the natural gas part of this post. Don’t worry I’m talking about that that comes out of the ground. We had a team building exercise at work. We went to a daytime baseball game, the Tulsa Drillers vs the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, AA teams. We had a great time even though it was cool and overcast.

Below is the world famous geocacher Teresa. She is a lot of fun.

About an inning into the game I had to leave to go SupePizzaBoy’s school for his classes music program. Great deal. Each kid did one or two solo numbers, singing or an instrument, and then they did a few things together. The school really works hard with the kids and they did very well.

SPB played a keyboard piece. I think it was “When the Saints Come Marching Home.” and sang a funny song about Summer Vacation.

The class sang together “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”. PizzaBoy gave the family a preview last weekend at Nana’s pool. It was recorded for posterity.

Guess what I did then? I went back to the baseball game! Got there at the top of the 8th and got to see it end. I love minor league baseball, especially daytime baseball. At least once during the spring I’ll grab a customer, eat lunch, go to the park and watch the game with them and drink a malted beverage or two. Almost better than geocaching and no ticks! or snakes!