My parents took me and my brother to the Dodger game last night. It was awesome. Especially when Beltre tried to hot-dog a pop-up in foul territory, and ended up dropping the ball about ten feet in front of us. Our entire section stood up and yelled at him, “Use two hands!”
When he came up to bat in the bottom of the inning, most of the stadium started chanting “MVP! MVP!” But not our section. We chanted “USE TWO HANDS! USE TWO HANDS!”
Maybe you had to be there, but it was really funny.
Then there was the old Chinese guy sitting one section above us, who was totally Dancing Homer. They put him on the Dodgervision screen so many times, I wonder if they’re going to hire him in Capital City.
I’ve been going to Dodger Stadium as since I was a little kid. I will always remember sitting in the family seats, two rows above the Dodger dugout, during the World Series in 1977, when I had such a bad ear infection that my dad had to hold me in his lap whenever the crowd cheered too loudly, or during the playoffs in 1978 when I got to go to a game with my dad because my mom had to stay home with my recently-born sister. I will never forget holding Nolan up so he could watch Mike Piazza hit one completely out of the ballpark, and high-fiving Ryan a few years ago when we watched a successful suicide squeeze play unfold right in front of us.
I love baseball, but I love Dodger baseball, at Dodger Stadium, more than anything. My family has had season seats there since the stadium opened (there’s a really cool story about how my dad’s family is connected to the Dodgers, but that’s another story for another time), and last night was the last game of the year that the family tickets were available to my mom and dad.
Oh crap, it’s 8:45 and I have to get out of here. I have an audition at 9:40, then I get to go to Las Vegas for a Meeting-with-a-capital-M tomorrow morning, so I’m looking forward to a nice drive across the desert, some poker tonight, and a (hopefully) cool trip report when I get back. There’s a chance I’ll moblog and audblog from the trip, so check in if you’re so inclined.
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Good luck on the trip Wil!
You know, the way you talk about your Dodgers is exactly how I feel about my Indians. I remember going to the old stadium, pre Jacob’s field, and just loving watching them play. Sure, they sucked, but there was nothing like going to the ballpark, with my Dad, who loved them more than anyone could love a team. My Dad actually made friends with the guy who brought (and still brings) his huge drum to all the games and sits in the bleachers. Way back when, before he sort of got famous around town, I got to bang on it once. Ya, that was pretty cool.
Thanks for sparking my own memories.
Melissa
I won’t wish you good luck with the audition because you don’t need it! If it fits you, it fits you, right? Have fun on the road trip!
Good luck with the Meeting.
Travel safely. Have fun with poker.
Anxiously awaiting the post-trip story.
(You know, all the cool kids with blogs log in from the road on their cell phones and give status updates. 🙂 )
Wow Wil, sounds awesome. I’m the same way about baseball, but with the Angels (having grown up just a couple miles from the stadium). We even had seats like those. Good luck with the “M”, and have fun in Vegas – sounds like life is pretty darn good right now.
That MVP chant for Beltre at Dodger Stadium is a bit much. He’s a great player, but it’s insane to think that anyone other than Barry Bonds is the MVP of the National League. Insane, I tell you.
My Royals whupped the Yankees two nights ago. It felt like 20 years ago when we had a team that was worth a damn. They have mirror image records this year; 90 wins and 90 losses. (sigh)
Say hello to my sister-in-law who got married last night in Vegas. She’s the one in the wedding dress next to Elvis.
Ooh, I had a chance to go to Dodger Stadium only once in my life. That was in 1996 or 1997, I believe. My boyfriend and I wanted so badly to see Hideo Nomo pitch. It was so cool to see so many Japanese people in the audience because they were there for the same reason we were.
Good Luck, Wil!
Have a safe trip Wil!
Is basball the one with the round ball and the stick? anyway. good luck with the meeting.
I was at the game Will Saturday against the Cardinals. My wife and family were sitting in the nose bleed section we call the Leftfield Pavillion. It was my first baseball game coming from the Philippines. We had fights in the stands, someone yelling to peanut the Cardinal fans. Only in LA. lol! Yup everytime when Beltre came up to bat, all around us people yelled out MVP too! I just love the atmosphere, the music playing during the players intro. Needless to say we came away with a win after an awesome 8th and then my man Gagne closing the game in the ninth. 🙂
ooops meant to say it was my “wife’s” first baseball game since coming from the Philippines. 🙂
Heh. It’s funny, but my childhood memories of baseball are ones of endless frustration, because it would regularly pre-empt weekend reruns of Star Trek…
Good luck at your Meeting. I’ll be sending *mojo* your way.
What fantastic times at the ball park. My own parents weren’t that into sports, but we spent my youth building our lake cabin. Hey, some people play catch with their kids, others stain and varnish fresh-cut knotty pine with their kids. I even got to hammer some boards on the walls. Good times, good times.
I have fond memories from the cabin, and can’t wait to share it with my own kids, when I have them. The best part is having something, be it tickets, cabin, favorite camping spot, etc. to share and give to your loved ones for a long time to come. It’s seeped with history, love, and memories and you wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Good Luck on the audition and tommorows big Meeting!
*mojo*
Have a safe trip, hope the audition went well, and I think you owe us a couple of poker story updates. Get right on that when you get back, OK?
I love baseball too, but I’m ashamed of what happened at the Texas-Oakland game Monday night. I wish that everyone, fans and players alike, would be nicer to each other at the ballparks. The game doesn’t need that kind of crap.
Next season, you should let us know when you’ll be at a game. We’ll keep an eye out for you on TV.
Good luck with the Meeting. If you’re putting that much emphasis on it, it must be something excellent! Have fun on your trip to Sin City as well. Hope the audition went well!
I will be playing some poker tonight as well, if all goes according to plan. But not in Vegas. Sadly, that’s not for another month.
Good luck!
Nice game last night..
Go Padres!
Your feelings about the Dodgers and Dodger Stadium are exactly how I and my closest friends feel about the Red Sox and Fenway Park. And we would totally have been yelling “USE TWO HANDS” too … only the difference is that at Fenway, the entire stadium would’ve been doing it. 😉
Hey, neat. I haven’t been to a baseball game in far too long; that needs to change.
I’d like to hear that story about your Dad’s family and the Dodgers sometime.
I feel the same way when I watch baseball/softball and someone tries to show off by using one hand. I’ve played/coached for over 20 years now, and still to this day I use two hands. Drives me nuts. Then again, I’m one of those crazy folks that will think, “Ok, they’re gonna do this, so they should do this…” type of thing. I think way too much when I watch baseball/softball.
It’s so much fun though. I’ll have to hit a Yankee or Mets game sometime since I just moved to NYC. 🙂
Good luck with all the stuff!
Nice to read you had a great time. Lots of succes and luck on your audition !!!
Off topic, i know, but just to let you know that i will be thinking and praying for the folks in florida. I just saw the news here in *tiny* holland about IVAN and it freaked me out. Take care folks, if u will be reading this. I will hold you in my praires (how on earth do you spell that ? beeing dutch and all, and not speaking englisch all the time, sorry for this, i know, my grammar sucks)
On topic again, Will, give your dogs a rub and hug for me oaky ?
Leon
Hey, Wil. Just been reading up on the Dodgers game-I think the USE TWO HANDS bit is appreciated by anyone who’s a fan of teams like the Cubs. Or the Red Sox.
Hope your audition went well and good luck at the MeetingwithacapitalM.
Travel carefully and enjoy!
Sorry, I double posted. D’oh!
Much luck on both the audition and Meeting!
audblogs are always a treat
i haven’t been to a baseball game this year…but i’m hoping to get lucky and get tickets for the postseason at BUSCH STADIUM…to see the mighty CARDINALS defeat the DODGERS…if that matchup works out.
Have fun on your trip, and good luck at the audition! :o)
To Leon in Holland:
Thanks so much for your prayers. Hurricane Ivan is threatening not only Florida, but also Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. I am in the process of evacuating my home as we speak. We will probably lose electricity (power) for several days so this will be my last post until then. Hopefully my home will still be here when I return. Vaya con Dios!
Wil, good luck with your audition. Hope it’s a movie.
Freeman 🙂
LOL Wil, the baseball chant thing is pretty funny. My sister and I used this cheer at a Florida Marlins-New York Mets game once:
Strawberry shortcake, banana split
We think the Mets are a pile of…
Shift it to the left, shift it to the right
Marlins, Marlins, fight, fight, fight!
(We’re so mature, aren’t we?)
I love baseball games. They’re awesome and they’re always fun. So you know I really appreciated today’s entry.
Enjoy your trip and break a leg at the audition (yes, I believe in that stupid theater superstition of saying “break a leg” instead of “good luck”).
Arrivederci!
-Vanessa Nichole
Good luck with yer Meeting and have a safe, serene, enjoyable drive up the 15 to Sin City. LOVE THAT PLACE! Keep on track with your Hold ’em play.
Nice entry! I just had a similar epiphone when we took our daughter to her first baseball game last week (and by golly the Mariners actually won! Shocker!) I even wrote it in my pseudo-blog. Have a safe trip, good luck with Poker.
My boyfriend’s family has season tickets to the Padres and he turned me into an avid baseball fan four years ago when we started dating. I think he’s quite proud of himself for that. 🙂
I watched Beltre foul up that catch last night from my home in San Diego–and then watched Klesko hit a home run! Despite what people say about our team, I am a loyal San Diego Padres fan–which makes me vehemently anti-Dodgers! Sorry Wil.
That’s awesome Wil! I love baseball .. I’m an American newly living in the Netherlands and I really miss watching games! Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you for a moment 🙂
Good luck with the audition and have a safe trip!
I always get all excited when you reference TMBG.
that’s all.
My cherished baseball memory is when Joe Morgan hit the home run that knocked the Dodgers out of playoff contention…okay, I’m a lifelong Giants fan, so sue me…
Travel safely, say “Hi” to my money when you’re in Vegas, and don’t leave behind too much of yours to keep it company…
Ah Baseball…. Gotta love baseball. I am a die-hard Yankees fan (I grew up there dammit and I watched them be a terrible team for a long time as a child in the 80s so I deserve it) who was taught to love baseball by my mother who still is to this day a giant Dodgers fan. HOWEVER, she is a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and I am afraid that she would scoff in your general direction Wil.
I, on the other hand, love your love for your team, forget where they come from!
Good luck with the poker!
I love baseball, but I really love Cubs baseball at Wrigley Field. Although come to think of it, Ive never been to a Major League Game. Been to plenty of Charlotte Knight games though.
And the ‘Use Two Hands’ thing isnt neccesarily a had-to-be-there funny, I can see all in my head and its still amusing.
Aw, SQEE! I love sweet, slightly sappy family stories (blame it on the writing for kids day job, er my major at school. Job, school…I’m digressing all over the freakin’ place). I’m hugging the monitor and pretending it’s you…hug back or my family will send me to cuckooland. Sorry, hyperness, pixy stix rock mt shoes.The Pixies also rock. I think pixies and their affiliates rock in general!
I know exactly how you feel Wil. I’ve been going to see the Mets at Shea for 18 years now, and I’m only 22…you do the math :). Even though they suck now, and the stadium is empty most of the time, I can still look around and remember what it was like when it was nearly impossible to get a ticket. Such great memories for such an ugly place 🙂
Um…off subject. Are you gonna talk about Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!? I wanna know when it’s on…it seems…okay, it seems weird, but cool geeky, adult-swim weird.
Maybe that Chinese guy will get the call. I hear the Goofball’s getting up there in years and is looking for someone to work the fifth.
Wil, that was a great game you got to see-even with “MR.MVP” being an idiot fielder!
I’m just as bad about Anaheim Stadium, never going to call it anything else, thank you!
Every time I think I’m over the Angels-they drag me back in! And who else in the world would give you a baseball for booing the Dodgers (Freeway Series game!) but an Angel!
Hope you have a good trip and at least one good hand!
I love baseball! It’s the only sport I can understand. 🙂
And eee! Damn you Wheaton, for the second time this summer you make me wish I hadn’t moved from Vegas! You are the exact Only person who can make me feel that way. 🙂
Good luck with your Meeting! Drive home safely!
TMBG! \m/
Oh, you wouldn’t happen to know where my telray is, would you?
Enjoy Vegas, good luck in your meeting. My husband runs a movie theater in Vegas. You are welcome to get in touch whenever you are here in town if there is something you want to see.