Reds fan's view of Turner Field

As promised, I put a story up at Red Reporter detailing my experience at the Brewers game Sunday. Hope you like it.

over 2 years ago jch24 7 comments 4 recs |

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Great post (I wanted to say eksellent, but apparently my eks and see buttons on the keyboard are broken right now (?)). We do have some of the best ushers in the world at the Ted. Glad you had a good time!

by Lizziebeth on Jun 10, 2009 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

Have you tried popping the keys out and putting them back in? Usually works for me

by VictorW on Jun 10, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks for the tip, Victor! I’ll have to try that next time instead of throwing the whole keyboard across the room. ;D Just kidding, they actually started working again on their own after about 30 minutes.
This leads me to believe it was yet another lame attempt by corporate to cripple my daily output of highly intelligent and detailed emails pointing out the fallacies of their latest “stupendous” decisions. Tsk; they can’t do anything right.

by Lizziebeth on Jun 10, 2009 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Loved it!

You definitely went on a good day and the hole in cup guy was pretty funny

by VictorW on Jun 10, 2009 3:13 PM EDT reply actions

I was almost in tears

You know it’s a good time when a staggering drunk man walks up looking to be pregnant, yanks his shirt up and pulls a huge flower out of the front of his pants, placing it on the bar and telling the bartender “Can I get another vodka tonic, there’s a damned hole in my cup!”.

The fact that there actually was a hole in his cup sent me over the edge, I started coughing from laughing so hard. He was really nice though, if not a little perverted as old drunk men tend to be. :)

"It seems as if every mistake I've ever made in life I've had an erection in one hand and a Bud Light in the other."

by jch24 on Jun 10, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks guys, I had an awesome time

And thanks for all the suggestions!

"It seems as if every mistake I've ever made in life I've had an erection in one hand and a Bud Light in the other."

by jch24 on Jun 10, 2009 4:36 PM EDT reply actions

Great post!

I’m so glad you had a good time in Atlanta, and at Turner Field. There are many that say that Braves fans are disinterested and not into the game, but I’ve never found that to be the case when I’m there. Sure, the atmosphere in New York or Philly may be more intense, but I’ll trade a little intensity for a comfortable, friendly time at the ball park.

I want to catch a game in the GAC sometime next summer; two of my kids live in Louisville, so that will be just a short drive away.

Oh, just a note on the “continuously operating” thing. The Reds were the first team, but:

The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Player-manager Harry Wright then went to Boston, Massachusetts at the invitation of Boston Red Stockings founder Ivers Whitney Adams, with brother George and two other Cincinnati players, to form the nucleus of the Boston Red Stockings, a charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The original Boston Red Stockings team and its successors can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports. (The only other team that has been organized as long, the Chicago Cubs, did not play for the two years following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.)

Again, thanks for posting this, and ya’ll come back soon!

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti

by sddbaker on Jun 11, 2009 4:21 PM EDT reply actions