This morning wasn’t as early as yesterday but we got up around 8 and was fed by the generous Burns family. We packed up and left their house around 915 to head to Atlanta. It was a very small trip into town. We are officially crossed over to the East Coast when we changed time zones at about 9:58 central time/ 10:58 eastern time. From here on out things will be put into ET. We arrived at Turner Field around 12:30 ET and had a pretty good parking spot in the old county stadium where Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run. We walked into the stadium and attempted to get autographs but the usher would not allow us to go down to the field level and I don’t think any of the players were signing anyways.
Kyle’s Souvenir of the Day: The Braves’ red foam Tomahawk
Jasons Stadium Review:
AAAAALLLLRIGHTY welcome to my new shared blog. I figured it would be kinda cool to do a stadium review of the quirks, features and mostly the traditions of each stadium. So here we go:
Turner Field
This stadium had some nice things to it including a coke bottle made out of bats, balls, helmets catchers gear, gloves, the whole works. Personally it was my first time being in an open-roof stadium except when Minute Maid had its roof open, but even that still feels like a closed stadium. The gigantic jumb-o-tron made Houston’s look like a 3” TV. Probably the most fun thing was the Chik-Fil-A cow in left field, which we have pictures of and you’ll hear about a little later.
The quirks of this stadium and its fans can really be summed up into one chant: The chop. The Braves symbol is an Indian Tomahawk, and their chant is that Indian-like “oh” chant. If you really want to hear it, ask me in person. Anyway they also sell these foam Tomahawks (which all of us got) and while they’re singing that Indian chant, they chop with the Tomahawks to the beat. GREATEST PART: You guys remember that cow? Probably 50 ft. tall in left field? IT CHOPS! For serious when they do the chant the cow chops. It made me happy and I got a video.
I think that’s about all that was entertaining at this stadium other than the game and the new sights and sounds which I have probably already forgotten. Next up on the list, Camden Yards.
The most exciting part of the game was Bobby Cox getting thrown out in the 3rd inning for arguing balls and strikes. It made everyone happy that he got his money’s worth. Unfortunately, the Braves lost in a 3 hour and 25 minute game 14-6 to the Nationals and Jason and I got a nasty knee sunburn. Surprisingly it was the Braves’ pitching. They didn’t have it today. We then hit the road around 5:15 to South Carolina where we are here camping at Croft State Park in Spartanburg, SC. Camping was a whole adventure in itself. We somehow fit 4 air mattresses into one tent that wasn’t as big as Josh thought. So it was not as comfortable as we’d like. We managed through the humidness and loud bird noises Overall it was a little crazy.
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