We went to see our first Revs game last night. The lost 6-4 against Newark, but it was a fun night out anyway. The kids hung in there through the 6th inning, when they started fading fast as the night wore on after 9 pm. My boy somewhat followed the game, but was often more interested in the various scoreboards and food. My girl of course loved following their big green mascot, DownTown, around the stadium. She had a chance to get on field after the top of the 6th to do some Turkey Hill flag thing where 3 little kids wave flags (pink, brown and white for strawberry, chocolate and vanilla) as colored cows race across the big screen. At this point she was just plain too tired and getting grumpy, so kept declining even though the stadium girls were having trouble finding kids to go down.
Even though we had free tickets, we probably blew through something like $50 to $60 in food and drink, so even though we could afford the season ticket packages, we probably couldn't afford to do that every game! But it was fun and a good experience for the kids. The between inning stuff was fairly interesting, and now I know the whole "thump, revoluSHUUUN, revoluSHUUUN" yell. Also, Pizza Hut sponsored some thing where if #28 on Newark struck out at any point in the game, everyone's tickets would be worth free breadsticks. Sounds like a neat idea, but it can't be fun for the guy, or even the pitcher, as thousands of fans change "breadsticks" at you. He did strike out his third time up though, so I don't feel that bad for the pitcher I guess.
The day started off with a tribute to Brooks Robinson. Apparently he got his start in York in the early 50s. He told a little story about playing second base and a coach making the comment along the lines of "that secondbaseman doesn't have a lot of movement, but he's going to kill your shortstop with those throws". So they moved him to third base half way through the season. The rest is of course history where he made it to the Orioles the next year and became a hall-of-fame third basement, winning 16 consecutive gold gloves. He had his wife and three grand kids there, one of whome was named Brooks (a girl around 15).
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