Which direction is the game?

Before I get into my night in Milwaukee I should have one good photo for the non-baseball junkies!  

larger is MUCH better  - that's what she said!

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A friend of a friend of mine had an extra 8 Free BP Brewer tickets from last year and the Brewers said they could use them THIS year so I was invited to go to the Milwaukee Brewers game last night.

OH - a word of warning - I didn't get to bed until about 12:30 this morning and even then it was not a restful sleep - I guess a 100 calorie Coke at 11:30 was not the brightest move but . . I was SO thirsty when I got in my car for the final drive from Lake Mills to Columbus!

We arrived at Miller Park just before game time and the rain was just starting to patter down a little - it was dark and threatening but we made it into the stadium with no insidence.

It was nice to have preferred parking on the close side of the stadium for a change but of course our seats were on the opposite side.

These are the first shots from our magnificent seats - I might make fun of the location but you can never complain about the word FREE right?

 I've never felt so disconnected from a game in my life. Typically when I have Free BP tickets they are behind home plate but back row.  This was section 437 row 16 and we were way way way far away. All the players sort of looked the same except for Prince Fielder who looked like two players talking.

Here is another photo of where we were - you can see Dave the guy with tickets waving if you look real close!   Thanks Dave. 

One of the first exciting points in the game that many people missed was the 3-run Homerun by McGeHee.  Half the people were not watching, half thought it was a foul ball and the other half could not even see the ball.

The rest are just random shots from around the ball park.  I didn't take a photo of my pretzel because it was seriously dripping with Crisco or something and I did not want to touch my camera.  No really it was DRIPPING with oil!  I tossed 3/4 of it out because I did not want people slipping on the oil walking behind me.

Ryan Braun 

As I was struggling with my dripping pretzel we saw the sausage races and I handed off to Tim and took a few shots.

One of the most exciting moments of the game is always the Bernie Brewer toss where one lucky fan gets to be tossed over the side of Bernie's Chalet reenacting what happened to the original Bernie Brewer, 69 year old Milt Mason who FINALLY, after 40 days was allowed to leave his little cramped trailer on top of the County Stadium scoreboard when the Brewers had a game wit h40,000 in attendance.   

Milt was so excited to leave his little chalet he slid down a 30 foot rope severely burning his hands and dropping to the concrete the final 15 feet which broke a few dozen bones in his frail body!  Once his very lengthy recovery was complete the Brewers, as a gift, gave him a lifetime supply of beer which it seems he tried to drink in one day and he died of liver failure do to alcohol poisoning.  YEA BERNIE! 

So now every game they toss a teenager over the side if the chalet to the delight  of the crowd as sort of a sacrifice.  Typically it's a drunken dude that get's talked into it as a fun thing to do!

Here is the struggle just before the toss! 

 
And of course some live action shots from 2 miles away! 

Fielder Swing and a Miss 

  

It's Trevor Time!!!!

That's my story - not super exciting but . . . . .

the real excitement was waiting at home  . . .HEY - get your mind out of the gutter . . . .

I had two huge boxes when I got home of prints - one is a large metal image I ordered and it looks GREAT, the other was 8 canvas prints which I could not open until this morning because, literally, it takes a half hour. I think they used a whole roll of tape.  I think when I get home Sierra will he stuck to the floor because she wanted to play and got all tangled up and now can't move.  

Have a great Wednesday,.

Rod