Stadium Vagabonds

Friday, August 31, 2012

Monday, August 29, 2011

July Visit to Turner or part one of the story.

Turner field was impressive in the historical statue and team history plaza outside of the stadium. To the right is the Georgia Peach who authored a decent biography.

The Braves are one of the oldest teams in the National League but probably changed names and moved more than any other. In fact this picture is the beginning of a large mural of the various changes in the team time line. The braves are the only team to win the world series in three different cities, 1914 Boston, 1957 Milwaukee, 1995 Atlanta, not really an accomplishment as they kept re-locating.

To the right is the first Braves team I remember as I had most of the 1983 topps set. Turner has a team picture of all of the teams which have played in the Atlanta era of Braves baseball.

A view from the seats in which we sat. The strangest occurrence was present in our seat location, it was mostly Baltimore fans who had made the trip to Atlanta for the inter-league series. These die-hard Orioles fans had bought tickets as early as James did. This was the first of good occurrences on the deep south rode trip. Baltimore lost after the outfielder dropped the third out on a Dan Uggla "hit" and the next batter hit a grand slam, this mistake led to all 5 of the Braves runs.

It began to rain as the game ended and we watched the end of the game here from the view to the

left. We then walked back to the car and watched the fireworks on the way back, then headed to Florida for the next adventure of July in the south.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Grand Baseball Trip (In Facebook Updates) Part 2: July 6th-10th

Wednesday July 6th

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Beer on the beach, oolright.

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‎"I'm so lonesome I could cry"

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On the road again... to daytona.

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Most of the radio commercials we hear in south Florida imply there is something wrong with peoples penises or vaginas.

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Aw, scratch daytona. Headed to brevard county instead.

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Fuck yea, cheap hotel. Fuck you shuttle for making all beach motels not honor coupons. — at Budget Inn.

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Swimming in the ocean brings out the kid in me

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Game 7: Clearwater threshers @ brevard county manatees

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Brevard county has mint soft serve in their helmut cups. I am impressed. Also I am sitting right behind home plate.

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If I hear one more vuvuzela at a minor league baseball game...

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Thresher beer batter struck out, so 2 dollar beers for rest of inning. A quarter of the adults left the stands. (Double fisting, myself.)

James Generic was at Space Coast Stadium Viera, FL.

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Brian Gump, an outfielder for the threshers, smiled and gave me a thumbs up when I yelled at him that I read his blog.

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Say what you want, but I believe the chicken dance is a truly hopeful expression of the triumph of humanity.

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For some reason, frank wont take me up on a $5 bet on whether he can hit the Manatee thirdbaseman with a tennis ball.

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Final: Threshers 11, Manatees 4. Impressive stuff from future phillies of jonathan singleton and rhp jarred cossart

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I tan like a ripe tomato.

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Thursday July 7th

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This is usually about the time loneliness and homesickness set in.

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On the road to savannah, with a stop in st. Augustine. Boiled peanuts are the shit.

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Everyone went to the old Spanish fort. I went to pat Croce's pirate museum and pirate bar.

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- Samantha Levens OMG ! Your in Key West !
  
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- James Generic There's one in st augustine too apparently
  
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- Alicia Totten Dude, check out the winery!
  
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- James Generic Where that?
  
  July 7 at 1:54pm ·
- Alicia Totten San Sebastian Winery, it's on King st. Just go down king st in the opposite direction of the fort.
  
  July 7 at 1:56pm ·
- Alicia Totten They have tours and tastings all day :)
  
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- Alicia Totten There's also a philly cheesesteak place right by the fort in case anyone you're with wants one lol. It's pretty legit. The guy goes and buys all the ingredients around philly and brings em back and stuff. Including tastycakes :P
  
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- Alicia Totten The philly place is also on king st but on the end by the fort. I think it's in the last building, or 2nd to last...
  
  July 7 at 2:03pm ·
- James Generic Sam: upon further research, Croce moved the museum from key west to st augustine in december 2010
  
  July 7 at 3:43pm ·

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Okay now I am drunk on st augustines wine tasting and bout a pirate pistol and a rum cigar. Thank god for autocorrect spelling!

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Savannah!

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Game 8: Greensboro grasshoppers vs savannah sand gnats. Gates don't open till 6 but we can tailgate in the parking lot, so problem solved!

James Generic was at Historic Grayson Stadium (Official).

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‎50 cent natty ices till 7. Minor league baseball rules

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When Sam gets drunk in public he cusses in front of kids. SEE IM NOT THE ONLY ONE

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Drunken rendition of "this land is your land" after the national anthem by the 3 of us

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Epic eating contest

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Frank cheated on the eating contest

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‎"You won, even if the umping sucked." Said james

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Grasshoppers 5, Sand Gnats 4. "We're nuts for gnats!" My tummy hurts.

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South Carolina!

Friday July 8th

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Missing people

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I dig motels that use phonebooks to hold their beds stable.

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Johnny boy by johnny cash at the wafflehouse in south caroline near Charleston.

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Going to fort Sumter in Charleston. Southern efficiency in action: the ferry ticket seller seems to be on permanent break.

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Thanks fort Sumter park ranger! she inspired me to want to be a history nerd park ranger.

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Game 9: Delmarva Shorebirds @ Charleston Riverdogs

James Generic was at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park.

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The riverdogs have someone on the iron doing the Charleston after they score. Very clever!

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‎"They have two dog mascots, a lady dog and a boy dog. The lady dog has a skirt, and the boy dog has no pants. Because that's how men and women dress." -frank

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‎"Are you facebooking what I said? Because you seem to facebook everything I say." -frank

"Just the funny stuff." -james

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I am really impressed with the baseball knowledge of the Charleston crowd, in that they know that it is considered good etiquette to boo a 12 year old who can't catch tennis balls thrown into the air.

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Final: Shorebirds 6, Riverdogs 5

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‎4th fireworks display of the trip. Woohoo!

Saturday July 9th

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On the long rocky road to Richmond, virginny

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Classic rock stations get me through these long stretches of highway

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Civil war site seeing

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We got postcards! Cool beans!!

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Surprise double header: Game 10 Harrisburg Senators vs Richmond Flying Squirrels

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This is probably the biggest minor league stadium I've ever seen.

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Just us nerds going to a doubleheader minor league baseball on a Saturday night.

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‎"Whos nuts? Dese nuts!" -franks unintentionally perverted attempt to support Richmond flying squirrels

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They had a sheep dog in between innings herding sheep. Reminds me of my formative years. Also, they had drag queens smoothing out the infield dirt

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Flying Squirrels 3, Senators 1. sheep dog show between games. Apparently real monkeys are riding on top of the dogs (I thought they were fake)

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Game 11: 2nd game of Richmond Flying Squirrels vs Harrisburg Senators.

James Generic was at The Diamond.

July 10th

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Senators 6, Flying Squirrels 4. On the road back to phillydelphia!! Stinky and unshaven wretches returning north

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After 3264 miles on the road, we return to Philadelphia.

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Game 12 and end of the line: Atlanta Braves @ Philadelphia Phillies

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The drunk girl sitting ahead of us keeps insisting we be in her photos and we take pictures of her. I asked her to share whatever she was drinking. She looked at me with a glazed look.

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Cole

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YES phillies fans doing the tomahawk chop sarcastically in mass.

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Than Nah Nah Nah. Hey, hey. Goodbye. (Braves)

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‎"Drive home safely!" -phillies fans to the lone brave fan left

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Final of 12th game in 10 days: Phillies 14, Braves 1

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Upon hearing my joke yesterday about pushing the Flying Squirrel's mascot over the guardrail to see if he could really fly, both Sam and Frank responded, "Too soon.,"

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