You know, it’s amazing how many baseball games you can go to when you aren’t even trying. Here’s game number three of four attended so far this year. It was the opening game of a three-game series against Baltimore at Safeco Field.
Unlike our first game of the year, we actually had a full tank of gas for this one.
We utilized the super secret parking that we accidentally found during a prior game, but our quick walk to the field was interupted by this train that decided to go forward to the point where it had about 3 cars left and then go in reverse, then forward, and then reverse again. I believe this was due to it backing into a yard but the switch not getting pulled correctly. This also explained why the BNSF police guy was always there — to prevent people from running across the tracks.
As you can see from the sea of caps above and Yaeka’s modeling of a cap, it was floppy hat night at Safeco Field. Yaeka looks pretty funny here, but not quite as funny as the Japanese business man did in the picture below (black arrow).
There’s a lot going on here, first the previously mentioned Japanese business man in a floppy cap. While looking funny, this is actually to be expected by Asians. The vendor under the yellow arrow was selling some pretty good hot chocolate, but he was no match for the vendor straight out of the 70s (red arrow). This guy has the old school Mariner’s cap, tight yellow old t-shirt, big mustache and then the long braided pony tail — pretty amazing.
Despite the coolness of Mr. 70s, he is still no match for this guy. This is “The Peanut Guy”. He does not throw peanuts like any normal vendor. He only throws them backwards and he can hit you dead on over 10 rows up and 10 seats down. It is fucking amazing.
Nice shot of the Safeco Field sign for Marty who had asked about the look of the field. In the background is the former Seahawks Stadium just recently renamed Qwest Field.
Shot of John Olerud for Marty/Flynn to show how these seats were really similar to the ones we had at the Skydome.
Blurry shot of the Starbucks HQ from a moving car. It’s actually pretty cool looking with the mermaid head on the top around the tower. The Krispy Kreme donuts down the streets makes a killing after baseball games.
You kids sure do go to a lot of baseball games.