2 posts tagged “baseball”

That's what I texted cranky from the Jays/Phillies game that Cappy took me to in Toronto this afternoon (except with misspellings and inconsistent capitalization).  I know how the Phillies are doing most of the time because Cappy's a die-hard Phillies fan, but I've never followed the Blue Jays.  It's my city's team, though, so he insisted on getting me a retro Jays cap for today's event --his team playing "mine" while he's here on vacation.

Yes, I am the whitest chick on the planet.  I used lots of sunscreen.  Our seats weren't at close as at the Jays/Reds game, but I liked them better because the view from behind home plate on Thursday was quite foreshortened, and this time I could see the action a lot better.  The SkyDome (I refuse to call it the Rogers Centre because Rogers is evil) which is a 15-minute walk from my place, was open and it was almost 90F with the humidity.  We baked but good.  The Jays were put on the spit till they were done, too,  This isn't the final scoreboard, but that's how it ended up:  a 10-0 shellacking.

When a foul ball bounced into the Jays dugout, I thought it was a metaphor for their performance.  All the Jays in the dugout ducked and dodged it. Give me a break.

Cappy wasn't alone in the crowd, either.  Check out all the red in the stands,

I didn't have time to post this the other day, but before the Jays/Reds game on Thursday, we ticked off another Canadian tradition -- a meal at Swiss Chalet before the game.  Except Cappy didn't order rotisserie chicken (sacrilege!), he opted for chicken quesadillas.  This is the iconic Swiss Chalet meal:  quarter chicken dinner with fries.  When I gave him a taste of mine, he didn't even like the Chalet dipping sauce.  So sad.

On the way home today, he got another taste of Canada -- we stopped at a Tim Horton's donut shop.  Contrary again, he didn't get a donut, but a danish.  Clearly I have some work to do on him.

On the whole, I think we're doing well for not just an international, but an inter-league partnership.

Been having too much fun to post since Wednesday, I guess.  Here's a photo from one of mine and Cappy's adventures from earlier in the week -- taking Jackie the cat to the vet for her post-surgical checkup.  She was as good as any of my cats (and better than some) with the exception of a huge stress pee on the weigh scale right after I took her out of her carrier.  She hid behind the fan on the counter while we were waiting for the vet, but then let me cuddle her and hold her for all the pokey-proddy stuff. 

She's been very sweet and loves to be petted.  She purrs when petted in the cage, and rolls around and rubs her cheeks up against the bars, etc.  She did have another big stress pee when I wrapped a towel around her and brought her into the living room to sit with us on the couch one evening, so there's still some socialization to do.  The red couch of fabulousness missed the hit, luckily, and all the pee went down my shirt and leg and into my slipper. 

Thursday was my first ever baseball game, with tickets from a lawyer my office uses for great seats to watch the Reds beat the Jays.  Here was our vantage point:

Row 18 behind home plate. 

And look, they opened the dome!  Here it is, in progress.

 

I had a lot of fun.  What cracked me up were the 10-year olds behind us who trash-talked every player on both teams like it was their paid job.  But they also had encyclopedic baseball knowledge, just like I imagine Cappy did at that age. Cappy was still working the strategy around the sacrifice bunt when I heard the one kid behind us explaining it to his friend.  Anyway, I had a blast and I'm all ready to do it again today as Cappy treats me to Phillies vs. Jays.  He's in his Phillies cap (and yes, he does know how to wear it properly, M------l and cranky), and he's going to get me a retro Jays cap.  Yes, there will be pictures.

I'm out of time to continue this post, since it's nearly time to leave for the game.  Catch you later, after the Jays beat the Phillies yet again.