baseball games and interest therein
I'm 91 years old and was in personal attendance at both Houston games and the first game at Atlanta. This thread has a lot of talk about baseball strategy, the players and managers, and I know it is better to study these features of the game from a TV screen and replays than from a seat in the highest row of Minute Maid Park, but I feel obligated to share (as many NET54 members know) that there is nothing to compare to the atmosphere of being at an actual game.
Also nothing to compare (as I did in Boston at the recent Wild Card game) with the feeling of being at a game ending at midnight facing a mile walk back to the parking garage and a six hour drive home with my son to Bellport, NY. He works at a hospital in Manhattan and we got home just in time for him to catch a train to get to work. I can go to bed, but he is up 36 hours straight. Nathan has been to 76 World Series games. For us, Baseball is all about being at the Ballpark which would include the evaluation of baseball cuisine. He has been in 51 different Major League Parks.
As a personal comment, the electronic version of the "Tomahawk Chop" on the scoreboard at Atlanta would appear to me to be a formidable psychological weapon. Not sure how much longer that will be allowed to go on in today's social climate.
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