Saturday, July 23, 2005

 

Royals 5, Blue Jays 3

We set sail west for Kansas City late yesterday morning, heading for Kaufmann Stadium and the game between the KC Royals and the Toronto Blue Jays. We arrived in Kansas City and headed directly for the stadium, which is off of I-70. When we arrived, Toronto was just starting batting practice, so after picking up the tickets at will call, we entered the ball park and I headed down for the seats in the right field corner, next to Toronto's bullpen. I came within an eyelash of getting a ball during BP. A Blue Jay hit a ball in the next section over a row up from where I was sitting and watching and another guy and I were in hot pursuit. Had the ball bounced up or toward the right in my direction, I would have had it, but lady luck was not smiling on me yesterday in more ways than one, and the ball skipped to the left away from us both and toward the guy's friend who had just been standing watching us.

This ballpark was more beautiful than I could imagine from video and pictures. There are fountains beyond the outfield wall that operate as synchronized jets of water. Once the sun set, lights were added and the show was very nice between innings. As for the game, the Royals jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first and was leading up until the beginning of the seventh inning by a score of 5-3. For several hours prior to the game, I knew that there were air conditioning problems at my house in Tennessee. During the game, I got a call from my long suffering wife, who said there were still big problems. We left the game and were walking out into the parking lot when I realized the camera case to my digital camera was still sitting underneath my seat in the park.

I went back toward the park and was hoping to get someone to at least call security to have someone go over and pick it up. I had gotten some help at one gate and no help at all at a second gate before I walked up to the doors to the business office. It was there where two team officials heard my story and allowed me to go back into the park to retrieve my bag. Their kindness has won a Royals supporter from now on as they will be a team I will root for when I am not cheering my beloved Braves.

We left this morning headed back for Tennessee and at the moment, I am typing this from my relatively cool office in my house. I hope you enjoyed these reports as much as I did writing them. I'll very likely go on another trip this year, and if you thought this was entertaining enough for me to do this again next year, please leave a comment for me here and let me know.

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