After we ate the free food, we found much more comfortable seats out in center field, 3rd row back, right next to the lawn seating (which never seems to be open every time we go - what gives?) There were some goofy high school or early college-aged kids sitting in front of us who were fairly funny most of the game, heckling the center fielder from Charlotte all night. He was some nobody dude who probably just moved up from double-A, and he got his first RBI in the 4th inning. Those guys were having a ball of a time "congratulating" him on his achievement. Sort of mean, but it proved okay with us since the first 6 innings of the game were a snooze fest.
In the 7th inning, some newer Bull hit a nice one out of the park, and Rob of course went to retrieve it. We had just been talking right before that about how neither of us had ever gotten a ball at any of the baseball games we've been to. So when we heard the crack of the bat and saw it flying out into the lawn seating area, Rob hops up and leaps over the fence in one fell swoop and runs about 50 yards to get it. Some of the annoying boys got up to fancy the idea of trying to get it, but "old man" Rob beat them to it.
Here's a pic of Rob as he's coming back from getting it. Look at how boyishly happy he looks!
Then, during the 7th inning stretch, we were featured on the jumbo-tron screen for about 3 seconds - yah! Sorry, no pic of that!
Here's another pic of Rob with his "lucky" baseball - if you can't read the writing on the ball, it says "Official Ball International League". Some of the annoying guys joked that he could put up for sale on craigslist and could probably get about 64 cents for it!
That's all for now. It's late and I'm tired. I better get some sleep before I coach tomorrow's big breaststroke workout.
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