Well, actually four.
When Todd and I went on our first date we thought a good one would be to see the pre-2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies play in for Dollar Dog Night. Let me remind you, if I'm not anything, I'm CERTAINLY a classy lady **she says as she tries not to soak the crowd with her dripping sarcasm...**
Ok, classy? Maybe not, but at least I can be a cheap date. Beer and $1 dogs.
Dollar Dog Night and baseball games in general has always been a special thing for me and TBone. We try to get to one or two a year, different cities, different leagues- our travels (both alone and separate) often include a trip to the park. On the due date of Maksi BB, rather than sit around and wait for the sack of waters to break, we climbed up to the nose-bleeds hoping the exercise and the sodium overload might induce some contractions.
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We stopped going to dollar dog nights (DDNs) after Opening Night 2008. The Phillies Marketing Department thought it would be a great idea to have the first night game of the season coupled with cheap food. It was amateur hour. I imagine that at least 43,000 of the 45,000 in attendance that night sat in the parking lot all day doing keg stands and eight balls while saving room for all of the hot dogs they wanted to slaughter Joey Chestnut-style later that night. I never saw so many fights in my life. It was awful.
But last night- was pristine. Not too crowded (which doesn't make sense because they claimed it was the largest regular season crowd in park history. It wasn't crowded. At all.)
The Phils made a change (for the better!!) offering DDNs on games when nothing else is going on, when they're playing a team out of the league or division and on a weeknight.
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| Sunset behind the boys. |
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| BB and TBone in the kid's section in the Majestic Store. |
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| Shirt that I want. Can't tell if it's Ed Hardy ugly or Wildwood Boardwalk Air Brush Ugly. Both ugly, but one is acceptable. |
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Daddy's magical rocking gets BB every time (even in a crowd of 45,000+) AND seats on the end of the aisle.
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I love me some live games. And, thanks to the 4 hour body rules, I had 4 hot dogs. Minus the bunz. I. LOVE. HOT. DOGS.
Two more items:
1. Thanks to everyone who's stopping by from
Shannanigans. I think all of you can agree that actually getting pics of yourself on your own blog can be difficult since you're the one telling the story most of the time. BIG UPS to Shannon for being the Photog for my dress up sesh and providing evidence that I exist.
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| we were having a yard sale. epic fail on the making money part- huge success on the fun part. all costumes were re-purposed items for sale. go to her blog to see the whole story. |
2. Are we all voting? I'm not in love with parading myself around the internets begging for votes but I think I can crack into the top 25. All of these birds' blogs are about running...and I'm trying to hit up fitness for the whole person. Moms, God Bless all of you who enjoy running. But...if you're like me (want to be in shape with the most minimal effort) you'll do anything NOT to run. (I can run doing another activity, ex ultimate frisbee, but just running is for the birds.) Click on the pic below to vote. and...while you're at it...comment or something, while you're here, would ya? I see that you stop by...but I love me some comments.
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