Today I worked from home and seem to have finally gotten everything in order before the new system kicks in, then when Travalon came home we went to the Mallards game. The gimmick with this one was that we could get "Frankenstein" jerseys with patches of all sorts of past jerseys, but we had to sit in the very cheap seats. We are spoiled by always sitting right behind home plate, so it was something to have to crane our necks to see the pitching, and it was very hard to tell what was a ball and what was a strike. We got to the game early and each received a free handheld fan. Here we are before the game.
I am wearing the new jersey, but you can't see it that well here. After the game Travalon took a photo of me with Maynard G. Mallard, and you can see it better, plus the "Frankenstein" cap I got to go with it.
And when we put the batteries in our fans and ran them, we were delighted to see that there were words in them!
I made a video of it.
The fans had a cord that you could put around your neck, so you could conveniently wear them. This was probably my favorite thing about the game tonight, which started off well and then went too well, if you know what I mean. In the first inning, the Mallards kept the Royal Oak Leprechauns from scoring, and then they had a home run with two guys on, so two runs in. Second inning - the same thing happened! And then a solo homer! So that's three home runs in two innings, and the Mallards were up 5-0. Then there were some scoreless innings, and another with two runs for the Mallards... and then in the bottom of the sixth, the Leprechauns completely fell apart and had terrible fielding, so the Mallards scored twelve runs. It was so bad that one Leprechaun player ran into an umpire and knocked him over, and for a few horrible moments he just lay on the ground, but then he got up and seemed fine. We stayed until the end of the seventh inning, but we were cold because neither of us had brought jackets (I had checked the weather and thought it would be warm enough without one; I brought one to the last game and never wore it), and we were feeling bad for the demoralized Leprechauns. Nobody scored after we left, so the final score was 19-0. I like to see the Mallards win, but not like that! I like a close, exciting game.
Meanwhile, Tiffy and another college friend of ours were at a Brewers game, so when I posted that photo of Travalon and me on social media, our college friend responded with her own photo of the two of them. Looks like the Brewers beat the Cardinals 3-2 so that would have been a much more satisfying game to watch.
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