City of Brotherly Love

Philidelphia  July 27,2008

 

After a great nights sleep in a nice warm bed, we  woke up at 8 and hit the door running. We drove into Philly around 11 and parked pretty much right next to the stadium for a very cheap price compared to Boston’s right  across the street parking. We were thinking about going to see the Liberty Bell but it was 3 miles away from the stadium. Only one of the gates to Citizen Bank Park opened 2 and a half hours before game time so we went through that gate and just kind of looked around. At the time, Tom Glavine was throwing his bullpen for the day. We took a few pictures of him then made our way over to the Speed Pitch booth. With my arm, I could not top over 60 but Josh was looking good hitting 70 on the radar. After that we went to our seats and watched the Phillies Father/ Children game which was pretty neat to watch. All the players and there family played a small game on the field. Some of the kids were Ryan Howards son and Brett Myers little boy and many others. So once the game started, we looked to our right to find our old enemy again. The Thunderstorm. It was very dark and by the 2^nd inning, it absolutely poured. We probably had around and hour and a half to 2 hour rain delay. The grounds crew put the tarp on, and about halfway through the rain 2 guys decided to turn that into a slip and slide and immediately got arrested. Everyone cheered for them but it was funny to watch. The game started back up at about 4 and got real exciting. The Phillies hit 5 home runs that game and Shane Victorino absolutely destroyed Brian McCann at a play at the plate. I’m pretty sure he got knocked out cause he just lay there for a good minute and was taken out of the game. I also called Shane Victorino’s home run that tied it up at 5 which started their come from behind win. The guy that sat next to me was amazed at how I called his shot. 

 Jason’s Stadium Review: Citizen’s Bank Park was a great ballpark. I kept imagining CBP is what Minute Maid would look like if It didn’t have a roof. The Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches are THE BEST. Being there for a 2 hour rain delay let me really soak (haha get it? Soak in a rain delay) the surroundings. I really liked the gimmicks they had in center-ish field including a pitch speed detector, and other carnival-like games. Its too bad the stores didn’t have much of anything except shirts and hats, otherwise I would’ve remembered to get the shotglass from each stadium. I have one from each except minute maid and Philly. Shucks.

Kyle’s Souvenir of the Game: I’m not sure that this item would be called a souvenir but more of a food souvenir. We had some ice cream and frozen yogurt from probably one of the cheapest helmet sundaes. So we all got a Phillys mini helmet as the Souvenir of the Game.

 Unfortunately we had to leave after the 7^th inning stretch due to the rain delay otherwise we would have been extremely late showing up to Gray’s relatives house in New Eagle, PA. We listened to the rest of the game on the radio on our way out and Philly won 12-10. It was a very exciting game. We ate Burger King to go on the road to New Eagle. We arrived at Gray’s relatives house around 11:55 and got ready for bed. Lucky for us there is nothing to do until the Pirates game so we can sleep in! YAY!!