Rangers v Yankees with bonus weather

So on rare occasions my company tries to boost everyone's morale and recently they offered up tickets to a Rangers game. The night in question was Rangers / Yankees and I think it was the 2nd game of a 3 game series (late edit... read Rangers sweep Yanks). So I opted in for a couple of tickets and set about trying to convince Luc that he needed to get out more and come to a game with me. Nothing doing. Good seats, Bullpen (read private executive level) suite with free food and drinks. No go for the Lucster. I knew the Crunch would be up for it... that's my girl. There isn't a social situation she isn't interested in and sure enough, she was totally excited about it (especially at the mention of food). That is to say, she was interested once she cleared her schedule.

What we thought was going to be a friendly casual evening of baseball ended up being something else when you throw in a bit of unpredictable North Texas weather. Add the enthusiasm of one teenage girl and you end up with a bit of a marathon but it was still totally worth it.

We got to my office at 5:30 for the (company bought) charter bus ride over. Put a bunch of marketing people on a bus together and I am sure you can imagine the first stop.. yes, the package store. Marketing people are lushes. Who knew? With me fending off offers of drinks on one side, and Karah's questions about why people would EVER drink alcohol on the other... it made for an interesting trip. Anyway, we get there and Crunch wants to eat first. Girl's gotta eat I guess. So we bounce back and forth between our seats, pretty good, and the suite which is really nice. Its like a bar/restaurant with a balcony you can overlook a baseball field at. Our executives must have a lot of fun because they seem right at home at these things. Anyway, I will shorten this monologue and show you a couple of pictures... because I tend to drone on a bit.

Beautiful night for it and you just cant beat a live baseball game. True to form for Texas weather... it didn't last. Everyone knows the old saying: "You don't like Texas weather, hang around 15 minutes..."

Well in our case, it took about an hour but it was mightily impressive to see the ground crew spring into action. Yes, that is sheets of rain coming down. I think they had the diamond covered in less than 5 minutes. Nice work boys.

Here is a shot of my favorite baseball fan. Beautiful no? I blame it on her mom.

So after an hour of forced intermission, which was lots of hiding in the suite because it was drier than outside, the game got back underway. The bus return trip options were one leaving at 9pm, or the others returning after the game ends. Crunch being excited about being there still made the choice easy and we opted for the full monty.

Texas gave up a couple of runs here and there but largely stayed in it through the late innings. The game ended with something I have never seen... the batter getting hit, which walked the bases giving Texas the win. Freak ending but Texas went on to win the next afternoon... a game my brother attended. Neither of us knew the other was going but we had a laugh about it a few days later.

Needless to say... lots of relief pitchers from both sides and a late rally by Texas saw us getting onto the bus after midnight, and our house looming in our headlights just before 2am. I ended up crawling into Max's bed, but he crawled into mine first (in my absence). So to bed late, er early... sleeping in a short bed, and the prospect of it being a Formula One weekend which means up at 6am to watch it live (like all real F1 fans must do) made for quite a morning. FORZA ALONSO!

Crazy you say? Maybe. How about this... I still managed to crawl onto my bike after F1 qualifying, of course I was almost useless but I don't really want to talk about that.

Hope everyone is doing well. I will give you guys a golf update soon.

-bb