CLEVELAND ROCKS!!!

We had a great Cleveland experience! We went to the Tuesday night game against the Pirates and had unbelievable weather to go along with fun seats overlooking the first base line.

I made friends in the 5th inning when I accidentally kicked over a Pirate fan’s mixed drink going to the restroom. I apologized, he was nice & I left. I came back with another Jim Beam & not only was he our new bestie, but the people behind us were impressed. When I told them our trip details our whole section had lots of questions. It was really great. Like we were all close friends. The Pirate fans moved closer to us to tell us their story. They follow the Pirates quite a bit & had brought a huge quilt with Pirate symbols & player autographs. They kept it neatly folded and hung it off the side during the 7th inning stretch. They offered us tickets to the Friday game in Pittsburgh. Like asked 5 times. Great people.

The best thing they did though was point out that their shortstop, Jordy Mercer, is from Taloga, OK and went to OSU!! I have a new favorite player!

Sadly we once again were not able to help the home team win, as the Pirates dominated the Tribe 9-2.

Since our next game isn’t until tomorrow in Cincinnati and the Indians were still at home against the Pirates, we decided to stay another day. The fact that there was a beach towel give away to the first 10,000 fans might have swayed us.

It was a beautiful cloudless 80° day and we were in basically the same seats on the 3rd base side. This was a different day for the Indians. That difference was not us, but Trevor Bauer. He pitched 7 scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts and only 2 hits.

We met another nice man sitting next to us. He is a season ticket holder and came in a suit & tie. He’s an attorney downtown and worked a 1/2 day. A big baseball fan, he’s been to games just about everywhere… including Oklahoma City. He asked if Micky Mantle had played there or something, because he ate at his steakhouse before the game. He tried to get us to go to a game in Columbus – Cleveland’s AAA team. Since we were to be driving through Columbus that afternoon, we checked – they were away. In the end we felt good to be a part of a victory!

GO TRIBE!!

We did hear that Beyoncé was playing tonight at the Q next to Progressive Field, and since we didn’t have anyplace to be until tomorrow night…

I’m teasing of course. I don’t know how much they’d have to pay us to go to a Beyoncé concert, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t going to ask.

The parking was close to the stadium which was nice, but 36,000 fans leaving a large downtown at 5:00…it took an hour to get out of the parking lot. Tempers were flared. One car emptied to fight another guy…crazy. We had no where to be anytime soon, so we just enjoyed the show.

We made it to Cincinnati and are looking forward to the game. We splurged a little for fancy seats with all inclusive concessions! Our trek is about over, and we are sad, but a little eager too. We’re tired of just looking at each other.