The Domino Chick

Baseball fever

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Most people who read this know that I travel a lot for work. How much, you ask? On average, I'm on the road 3 weeks out of the month. The bulk of that is domestic U.S. travel, but every so often I'm lucky (or I go on vacation) and I get to go out of the country. Since most of this travel is for business, my evenings are usually free. A lot of the time, I know people in the cities I visit, but even then, sometimes I end up looking for things to do. Couple that with the fact that I'm a complete baseball geek (who am I kidding, I'm a geek about everything I like) and you get my project for the next couple of years: I intend to visit every Major League ballpark. This is to the great delight of a few of my friends, who like baseball nearly as much as I do and would be happy to aid me in my quest by attending baseball games with me. :-)

To that end, last week I was in Milwaukee and attended a game at Miller Park. It's a really nice park - nice concessions, easy parking, a cool retractable roof, and everything is designed so you don't miss a moment. They have a TGI Friday's in the park, and pretty much every seat in the dining area overlooks left field. There's even a little balcony area - it looked like it was close enough that we could've tossed down some hot wings to the outfielders. We were able to snag field-level seats about an hour before the game started for under $40/person, which is pretty cheap (by L.A. standards, of course - I notice wide variance in ticket prices around the country). I noticed that they also had bleacher seats for $5, so going to a game in Milwaukee is pretty affordable. They played against Houston, and since I really don't care about either team unless they're battling the Dodgers for the wildcard towards the end of the season, I rooted for the home team, but the Astros (Libby's team) won. All in all, it was a great game. Some photos are over at my photoblog.

I'm getting ready to go to Boston for the View's Admin2006 conference, where I'll be presenting a few sessions. I've got a head cold right now, so I'm doing everything I can to get rid of the congestion before I fly. Hopefully I'll be sniffle-free by the time I get there. I hope to see you there!

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 05:18:45 PM