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Whaddaya Know About Atmosphere?

Whaddaya know about atmosphere? When you buy baseball tickets, what do you expect to feel, to smell and to taste, when you get inside the stadium? If you buy Red Sox tickets, you know Fenway is gonna be packed, right? When you buy New York Yankees tickets, you expect to feel the buzz, and maybe hear a little Sinatra playing over the speakers, and when you buy Colorado Rockies tickets, you know that things are gonna be hot - that thin air lets the ball fly, man! Nowhere else can they hit that thing like they do in the Mile High zone, and that's a fact. Personally, I like to grab a few beers, meet some pals, and go to Camden Yards with my Baltimore Orioles tickets, for hot dogs and nonsense - just catch up with the latest news on what people are up to, and remember the old times. A buddy of mine is a transplant - he moved out to San Diego a few years back, and now hunts for San Diego Padres tickets and Arizona Diamondbacks tickets, but I know that deep down he misses the atmosphere of the Orioles games. Or does he? Maybe he doesn't miss the sulfuric acid rain and the fall nights when the frost is glinting off the rooftops like dangerous diamonds, and the, er, interesting aromas are wafting in from the docks. They don't seem to have the same territoriality out west that we have here in the east. My buddy says he loves to drive the Pacific Coast Highway and check out an Angels game if he scores Los Angeles Angels tickets from contact he works with. Sheesh! He even goes off on 4-day road trips to catch the Oakland Athletics or, if he scores San Francisco Giants tickets he'll go there too. That would be like me going to see the Red Sox or the Atlanta Braves or somethin'. Ridiculous! A man's gotta keep a sense of place. And my place is dear ol' Baltimore, where the Orioles fly, and life is always interesting. Salut!