In the Stands Volume 4
The other day I got a call from my buddy Bob. Bob and I go way back. I have been bugging him for
about the last five months to pay me for his share of the season tickets we bought or should I say
I bought for Maryland Football. I should be at every game this year so expect some good pic's and commentary.
Anyway he called me this past Monday and said "do you want some money"??
(The first game is this Saturday) and I was like well ok.
He also sprung a little surprise on me and said "I have two extra tickets to the O's game
Wednesday night do you want them "?
And I was like Duh!! So he showed up at my office Wednesday mourning and handed me four tickets.
I was like dude you said you had two tickets he was like Surprise!!! I had actually talked my wife
Sally into letting me take James Jr. (Jimmy the Kid) to the game so I called her and said,
"We have four tickets why don't we all go"?? So late that afternoon Sally, Emily, James,
and I loaded up the van and headed for the Yard. I had been telling James we were going to the
baseball game for about a day and boy did he remember it. When I left for work
Wednesday mourning he said Baseball and cried. I came home for lunch and he cried again when I left.
He almost never cries when I leave.
Parking was a breeze and we did not have to walk too far.
Bob actually had a parking pass two blocks north of the stadium for us.
Too cool!!! When we went through the gates and after they scanned our tickets they told us we didn't need
tickets for the kids and we could have sold them but now they had been scanned and could not be sold. Thanks!!
When James saw the field He said "Baseball" Both he and Emily started to get excited.
I had already started showing off the kids two when we got out of the Garage when
I saw one of my fans and it continued as we walked by some of the ushers I knew.
I retired from the O's two years ago but I started showing pictures of Emily four years ago and
I still always have pictures of the kids to show I make an appearance. It was nice to finally introduce the
kids in person for the first time. We grabbed our seats around first base and the kids went down front and the
Oriole Bird walked up to them and they were very excited but I didn't get a picture because I was getting food.
Sally had warned me that actually enjoying the game might be difficult because we had to watch the kids.
She gave me a three beer limit and my favorite usher gave mea two beer limit.
I ended up having none as I was to busy keeping an eye on them.
Emily new the charge routine DA DA DA DA DA DA Charge!!! She did that well.
It was 9 o'clock the kids were getting a little out of hand and said "honey are you ready"??
I had told her earlier that I would leave when she was ready and I wouldn't fight it. She knows my
"One more cast mentality" when I am into something. So we headed out.
As we left the Stadium and walked north I noticed they had three huge buses blocking the streets surrounding the park.
I guess this is some sort of new security. Before we left for the game that day my daughte
r Emily asked I could let her listen to her music and then I could listen to mine.
This is an ongoing war we are having. My wife doesn't have a prayer of listening to her music
when we are in the van and frankly neither do I except when we are on a long trip and the kids fall asleep.
Anyway when we got in and turned on the game Emily asked "is that the game we were just at"? I said "yes"
and unbelievably she let me listen to it with no qualms. Unbelievable! She even heard them do a charge and
she yelled right along in the van. Very Cool!! Because we left so early in the middle of the fifth we
got home in time to catch the 8th and 9th inning. Well both James and Emily were eager to watch it when I turned it on.
They really seemed interested in the game and when they the Oriole bird on TV they got even more excited.
We all celebrated when the Orioles Won and Emily lead the Cheers "Hip Hip Hurray!!!!
What a blast!! Well the Orioles lose ten straight, the Man shows up, brings the FAM and look what happens.
Who is the Man anyway??????
Jimmy The Man
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