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What to do when your “stuck” at the ballpark

Posted by: Bertkc01 on June 19, 2010.

How to survive the rain delay

The Royals would lose the day the All-Star game is announced to come to KC. I could talk about that.

I could also talk about the pitching and unfortunate breaks the team had but almost every stinking blogger does that. I’d rather talk about the beauty of a rain delay. It is beautiful.

It was a beautiful presentation by Bud Selig or David Glass or whatever city authorities and it was slowly turning into a beautiful evening for a ball game until I realized the nice breeze was due to a storm a comin’. Well I spoke to ushers and I spoke to concession stand people (who are exceedingly nice by the way) and as fans began to file in to the cheap seats with me I noticed a small state of concern come apparent by the masses. The storm would be pretty bad. Now I’ve been through some storms and this wasn’t the worst one I’d see but you’d think some people have never been in a storm. In fact some people are just plain waste their good looks and intelligence on how they react to a thunderstorm. Yes it’s loud and yes it flashes but man do you have to panic?

Here’s why you should never panic in a storm at a public venue. If it was going to be really bad and I mean really, REALLY bad there’s nothing they can do about it and if it’s not as bad as that then you’re going to be okay. So I never worry I just take my lumps, get a little wet and calm down after the loud bangs (startle reaction is scientifically proven to be unavoidable) and focus on my ball park environment.

Moving down to the lower level to avoid the pummeling the crowd as a whole was pretty happy to be there. Vendors were laughing and carrying on to customers and serving the magnificently overprice food (gotta pay for Guillen’s contract somehow) and felt compelled to break my first rule of baseball game viewing. Don’t buy any food before the 3rd inning. Not knowing how long this is going to take I opt for a footlong hotdog, chicken tenders and fries and a souvenir large diet Pepsi (because I got to keep my figure). So I already am feeling weird because now everything is off.

I see what appears to be an 18 year old girl shivering and closed up tight but wearing about as much skin tight clothing and revealing apparel as you can and it seems odd to me that she’d be here in this situation. Realize that she probably doesn’t check the weather much and it is summer so clothes become more optional as the hotter days close in. Then I see she has a cell phone and I feel a little less sorry for her because she could have gotten on the internet with the device and checked on it but then again I don’t know her circumstances and maybe she can only use it for talking. Then my sympathy fell away completely as she places her cell phone in her BACK POCKET. Which is about as smart as smoking during a tonsilectomy. You sit down and crunch there goes your communication during a worse case scenario. Then I see that the phone has a Justin Bieber picture on it. Sorry young lady but you just received negative energy from me. Hope you make it inspite of it, which you probably will.

The weather let’s up a little bit and I go up to the 400 section area and see some vendors closing shop and I start a conversation. Joking say “Hey got any extra food left over?” They say, “Want a shaboygan?” I’m shocked and say “Yes.” Two minutes later I get my free shaboygan. I love the ballpark.

The clouds leave but not before leaving a double rainbow. Then it gets dark and in about the 4th inning I think, “I’ve got to write about this.”.