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!