We decided to FINALLY go to an Oklahoma City Redhawks minor league ball game this weekend. After months of speculating about it, we picked a random day, when it was 102 degrees! Crazy, I know....
Turned out to be a Cubs game, though!
It was odd, as we walked toward the park, and stood in line for tickets, the sheer number of cubbie blue shirts and caps, and jerseys with famous Cub names on them, that we saw.
Hmm...thought I...how interesting to see so many Cubs fans here! Cool!
The explanation? The team in town to oppose our home town Redhawks was the Iowa Cubs. The farm team for the Chicago Cubs!!
The game started at 7 pm, and was a lot of fun. We got left field (OF course) bleacher tickets, and had a huge choice of where to sit, because the park was mostly empty.
Thankfully, the sun had moved to a point in the sky that made it possible for us so sit in the shade.
It was still incredibly hot and uncomfortable in the shade, but that's what cold beer is for, and a little breeze was my salvation. They also had a vendor who made "Chicago Hot Dogs," and they were authentic, and tasty!
The Iowa Cubs played a very good game...won 9 to 4.
I struggled the whole time with cheering for the "wrong team," because I am so conditioned to cheer for blue shirted players as opposed to red shirted players!
The game didn't REALLY get interesting until we had gotten up during the 9th inning to wander the park and leave. Then it started to get exciting with some good plays and drama on the field. The Cubs pitcher filled the bases, mostly on walks, and walked a Redhawk home before he got pulled at the tail end of the game! The score was 9 to 2 until the last inning!
The one bit of excitement before that was the 1 run the Redhawks had gotten in the early part of the game. It was a home run that clanked against the benches in our bleachers a few feet away from me while Dave was on a beer run. That was fun, but Dave missed it!
And there was a guy in our section who was a true fan who REALLY went all out.
He didn't have a scorecard, he had a spiral notebook. He also has two glasses cases on the bench next to him, a bag of sun flower seeds, extra pens, two different sizes of cow bell, and one of those plastic horns to blow when your team hits a homer.
He wore a head set, so he could hear the play by play somehow (oddly there was NO play by plan announcer in the park, so we had to actually WATCH the game to know what was going on!), and he yelled at the players with great passion.
He's the one in the picture above.
The crowd was a LOT more subdued than I am used to...but we had fun anyway.
It was still close to 100 degrees when we walked to the car at 10:30 last night.....I felt ill when I went to bed last night, and have decided to stay in today...no matter what. I am not getting out into the heat today. It's another 100 degree day, and I still have the head ache from yesterday's heat.
The coming week is supposed to be upper 90's, low 100's. I guess that 10 day period after my sister and brother in law left was the last of the "cooler" weather we'll see for a while.
This is the part of moving here I dreaded.
Anyway...we hope to go to another game or two.
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