{"id":926,"date":"2011-08-20T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=926"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:58:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:58:43","slug":"baseball-and-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Baseball and Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6062057780\/\" title=\"IMG_6464 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6464\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6062057780_ea0ca22665-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday night the Yogi&#8217;s went to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.minorleaguebaseball.com\/index.jsp?sid=t260\"><b><span style=\"color: red;\">Tulsa Drillers<\/span><\/b><\/a> play at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=36.1597222222,-95.9880555556&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=36.1597222222,-95.9880555556%20(ONEOK%20Field)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" title=\"ONEOK Field\">ONEOK Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6062067778\/\" title=\"IMG_6477 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6477\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6062067778_3fabae3dd3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we didn&#8217;t count on was hot hot it was. My car thermometer said 109F when parked at the stadium. I don&#8217;t think the official temperature was that high, but it was hot. There was no breeze either. This is Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping through the plains darn it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6061518401\/\" title=\"IMG_6478 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6478\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6061518401_bfc6f662a0-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even the umps were hot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6061511165\/\" title=\"IMG_6470 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6470\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6061511165_4aa00d8ebe-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opposing pitcher spotted me eating ice cream. I thought he was going to come up in the stands and take it. He&#8217;d of had a fight on his hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6061509711\/\" title=\"IMG_6467 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6467\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6061509711_20a2b8bffb-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We smiled in the heat, and perspired. Sweetie perspired, SuperPizzaBoy and I sweated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6061562451\/\" title=\"Alan and Logan by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alan and Logan\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6061562451_92c1f791b5-300x143.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep him fueled on pizza and ice cream and SPB is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6061521481\/\" title=\"IMG_6481 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6481\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6061521481_d64f442fd3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seventh inning stretch so we sang &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Take_Me_Out_to_the_Ball_Game\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Take Me Out to the Ball Game\">Take me out to the Ball Game<\/a>&#8221; and of course &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/songs\/okla.htm\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>Oklahoma<\/b><\/span><\/a>.&#8221; If you live here you better learn that song. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, its the best State Song in the whole country.<\/p>\n<p>And then we had a Fireworks Show!! The Drillers often do that on Friday nights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6062150904\/\" title=\"Tulsa Drillers Firewords Picnik collage by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tulsa Drillers Firewords Picnik collage\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/6062150904_00ba84f20b-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Have you been to a baseball game lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night the Yogi&#8217;s went to see the Tulsa Drillers play at ONEOK Field. What we didn&#8217;t count on was hot hot it was. My car thermometer said 109F when parked at the stadium. I don&#8217;t think the official temperature was that high, but it was hot. There was no breeze either. This is Oklahoma, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,577,313,285,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","category-fireworks","category-superpizzaboy","category-sweetie","category-tulsa-drillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}