{"id":1640,"date":"2009-09-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:12:08","slug":"last-game-at-drillers-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Last Game at Driller&#8217;s Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsa&#8217;s AA Level baseball team is the Tulsa Drillers. They are a farm club for the Denver Rockies. The Drillers have played for years at Driller&#8217;s Stadium located at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds in an area of town called &#8220;Midtown.&#8221; It is a nice comfortable stadium with lots of room and free parking. Not much style to the park, but it is a great place to spend an evening watching baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Next year the Drillers are moving downtown to a new Stadium, ONEOK Field. It is being built right now and will be finished in time for the first pitch early April. It is a spiffy looking facility and I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;ll come to love it. You can click <a href=\"http:\/\/oxblue.com\/pro\/open\/oneok\/oneokfield\">here<\/a> and see a live view of the construction of the park. It is a little unusual because it will be facing mostly south rather than east. But I guess that will work. Here is a cut and paste of&nbsp; the view as of yesterday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ONEOK-Stadium.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" mq=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ONEOK-Stadium-300x227.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>Very cool, you can see the diamond taking shape already.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">One of the men in our Sunday School had access to some inexpensive tickets for the last game. So a bunch of us went. First we ate barbecue at the Rib Crib on Peoria. The food was good but look at these motorcycles in the parking lot. I just loved them.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3909472541\/\" title=\"Cycles by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cycles\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3909472541_a7ae8dd5e5-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oops, baseball game!! Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>We had the Star Spangled Banner. I hope the the flag at the new place flies as good as this one always does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3910245060\/\" title=\"DSCF1361 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSCF1361\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3910245060_410374fc4e-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had the game. Tulsa got ahead by 15 runs or so and most of us left. Hey we are fans, but we didn&#8217;t think the Arkansas UnNaturals were going to pull it off. (OK, they are actually the Naturals, but I think UnNatural&#8217;s adds just a tinge more interest. Don&#8217;t you?&nbsp;All them Arkansas boys on those long lonely bus rides away from home and &#8230;.) Well, so much for that. This was a church group!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3909462941\/\" title=\"DSCF1362 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSCF1362\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3909462941_2914170caa-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">You can see, we had great seats.<\/div>\n<p>On they way out, we had a&nbsp;wonderful sky!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3910248090\/\" title=\"DSCF1364 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSCF1364\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3910248090_e23671da4f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, everybody understands I was just kidding about the Naturals, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsa&#8217;s AA Level baseball team is the Tulsa Drillers. They are a farm club for the Denver Rockies. The Drillers have played for years at Driller&#8217;s Stadium located at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds in an area of town called &#8220;Midtown.&#8221; It is a nice comfortable stadium with lots of room and free parking. 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