Minor League Baseball

[wolf]

I went to see the Reading Phils as part of a company picnic deal a couple of years ago ... we had seating in the pool area.

Yes, the pool.

It has dancing fountains.

I actually had a much more enjoyable experience than I ever had at the Vet, and not just because things were priced reasonably and I got in free and they fed me.

The baseball was well played, and we got a double header because of a rain out the day before. We also got the fireworks display that had gotten rained out.

And I got to see a mascot jump into the pool (the rubber duckie ... there are something like six different mascots), sumo wrestling (two fans running at each other in those absurd sumo suits), as well as a nifty charity event in which fans threw numbered tennis balls at the field in an attempt to win fabulous and exciting prizes by getting them to land in hula hoops placed at each field position.

I did not win a fabulous and exciting prize, but it was a hell of a good time.

Great family atmosphere.

And the parking was free. (Took me a while to find a place to park, as I'd gotten there rather later than I had planned on, but if you arrive early, you get to park closer ... all of the businesses around the park let you use their lots, and despite my bitching here, I think I may have been only three or four blocks away from the entrance.)