Baseball

    So my hometown hasn't had an actual minor league team in years. What we have is a summer wooden-bat league team made up of college players. Unfortunately, the city decided to sell the land that the ballpark is on, so it looked like the ball team would have to go away, or at least out to the suburbs. Last night, the team was playing the second game of a 3-game playoff series after having lost the first game the night before. In other words, this might have been the last baseball game ever at historic Capital City Stadium.
    However, the suspense got blown pretty quickly when the gentleman doing the pregame announcements mentioned that the team and ballpark might get one more year. (The land had been bought by a developer with a track record of putting up Walmarts; maybe somebody finally figured out that putting a Walmart next to a busy railroad crossing might not be the genius idea of all time.) Well it cheered me right the heck up. And the hometown team eliminated the suspense pretty quickly, too, scoring three runs in the first, another in the second and coasting to a 9-0 victory.
    As it happens, it was guaranteed win night, meaning that if they win, you get in free for the next game. (I'd think guaranteed win night would mean that you'd get in if they lose, but I guess in the playoffs that wouldn't work too well, there not being another game if they lose.) So now I can go to tonight's game for free. I may; it's really really hot here in August, and it got to be a little uncomfortable. But it was crazy mad fun at the ballpark and it'll probably be even more fun with a bigger crowd. The bigger crowd ought to be inevitable what with all us free folks coming back plus Friday compared to Thursday and a deciding game to boot. Maybe this time I'll go looking for a breeze!