Date, Time: April 5, 2011, 7:05 PM
Venue: Citizens Bank Park
Opponent: Los Mets
Pitching Matchup: Cole Hamels vs. Chris Young
Pregame: My first "after work" game of the season. I took the shuttle from my office at the Navy Yard up Broad St. to the corner of Broad and Pattison and walked over to the 3rd base gate. I tried not to get blown away by the wind. There were people handing out free Snapple at the subway station. It was apparently a cross promotion with NBC and The Celebrity Apprentice - some wacky diet Snapple flavor created by Brett Michaels calledTrop-a-Rocka - and it was awful. Plus, it was in a glass bottle, so you couldn't even take it into the stadium if you wanted to. There was quite a collection of hardly drank bottles of this Snapple hanging out 0n the bases of the statues along Pattison between Broad and CBP.
I got in to the stadium, got my free T-shirt, and headed upstairs to say hi to some twitter folk ( @kchristine, @dmc0603, & @mdschaeff). It was crazy windy.
Seats: Back to the regular seats for the 1st time all season in section 327. I love these seats because there's always a nice breeze during the really hot summer games. Well, that breeze was here tonight too, in the 45 degree cold. And it was more like gale force winds. COLD!!!!
Food/Drink: I finally got some Crab Fries at this game. Yum. And when I was in line for them, I was serenaded by the Cinnaminson High School marching band's rendition of "We Didn't Bolg the Fire". Quite nice.
Thumbs Up: I was watching baseball live in person for the 4th consecutive Phillies game. Free t-shirts are nice.
Thumbs Down: Lack of Phillies offense, Cole not making it out of the 3rd, People booing Cole as he left the game. Oh and have I mentioned how cold and windy it was?
Photographic Evidence: It was too cold for me to get the camera out tonight, but here's a view from our seats.
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