I went to Game 3 of the World Series
So i get the phone call monday afternoon that a buddy of mine was picking up his girlfriend from St. Louis airport on Tuesday night...he asks if i have anything going on that evening...i reply, nope, just gonna watch game 3...he then says 'lets go to it'
jordan and i ride the metro link to the stadium at around 3:30 we get there and are looking for someone that would be looking for guys like us needing tickets...no luck...so we walk around the stadium and up to the roof of the parking garage that is directly behind center field...we declare a section of the roof ours and are a tad concered with the numerous "no loitering" signs...there were already about 5 people standing around on the roof...1 guy was already grilling out...we knew we'd be fine...so we go down to where there were many food tents and live music taking place...we venture into a few hotels in the area to see if we could get a better view of the field...no luck...we take care of a few brawts and sodas and make our way back up to the roof of the parking garage...this was at about 5:30 and still only about 5 people up there with us.
neither of us prepared for the elements of breezy 40 degree weather...i bought a sock hat...it's red...i like it...
our view was directly down right center-field, past 2nd base, beyond the pitcher's mound and looking straight at home plate...we could see hits, pitching, and scoring...what more could you ask for while watching the World Series for FREE!...by the time the National Anthem was sung, about 20 people were in the area with us now....many with coolers full of beverages, which may or maynot of ryhmed with teer...just as the final lines of the National Anthem were sung....i thought the crowd seemed really loud, and then we saw it, the 2 jets that flew over the stadium were about 700 feet above us and you could feel the heat from their afterburners...it was so loud it shook everything in me as well as the garage felt like it was about to collapse...
by the end of the 3rd inning, about 75-100 people were on the roof in the area around the elevators and stairs...(which is where we were) many started climbing onto the top of the covering of the elevators...surely someone was gonna fall to their death...but it never happened...
...it was so cold, at one point the guy who grilled out brough his grill over next to us and we got some heat from it...
after 7 full innings...we left...mainly cause our feet were numb, and it was getting to be that time that we needed to leave in order to make it back to the airport in time...and there were plenty of drunk people on that roof that someone was gonna die climbing off of the upper part that covered the elevators...there were about 50 people on this small slab of concrete...
but nontheless...i still got the atmosphere of the ball game...second hand smoke...the smell of alcohol surounding me...the smell of hot dogs...even the cheers that our community of Cardinals fans on the top of the parking garage started...
I believe that if it comes down to Game 5 being the series clincher...i'll be there on that roof again...with my new Cardinals sock hat...and this time i'll bring a pair of binoculars...anyone care to join me?
jordan and i ride the metro link to the stadium at around 3:30 we get there and are looking for someone that would be looking for guys like us needing tickets...no luck...so we walk around the stadium and up to the roof of the parking garage that is directly behind center field...we declare a section of the roof ours and are a tad concered with the numerous "no loitering" signs...there were already about 5 people standing around on the roof...1 guy was already grilling out...we knew we'd be fine...so we go down to where there were many food tents and live music taking place...we venture into a few hotels in the area to see if we could get a better view of the field...no luck...we take care of a few brawts and sodas and make our way back up to the roof of the parking garage...this was at about 5:30 and still only about 5 people up there with us.
neither of us prepared for the elements of breezy 40 degree weather...i bought a sock hat...it's red...i like it...
our view was directly down right center-field, past 2nd base, beyond the pitcher's mound and looking straight at home plate...we could see hits, pitching, and scoring...what more could you ask for while watching the World Series for FREE!...by the time the National Anthem was sung, about 20 people were in the area with us now....many with coolers full of beverages, which may or maynot of ryhmed with teer...just as the final lines of the National Anthem were sung....i thought the crowd seemed really loud, and then we saw it, the 2 jets that flew over the stadium were about 700 feet above us and you could feel the heat from their afterburners...it was so loud it shook everything in me as well as the garage felt like it was about to collapse...
by the end of the 3rd inning, about 75-100 people were on the roof in the area around the elevators and stairs...(which is where we were) many started climbing onto the top of the covering of the elevators...surely someone was gonna fall to their death...but it never happened...
...it was so cold, at one point the guy who grilled out brough his grill over next to us and we got some heat from it...
after 7 full innings...we left...mainly cause our feet were numb, and it was getting to be that time that we needed to leave in order to make it back to the airport in time...and there were plenty of drunk people on that roof that someone was gonna die climbing off of the upper part that covered the elevators...there were about 50 people on this small slab of concrete...
but nontheless...i still got the atmosphere of the ball game...second hand smoke...the smell of alcohol surounding me...the smell of hot dogs...even the cheers that our community of Cardinals fans on the top of the parking garage started...
I believe that if it comes down to Game 5 being the series clincher...i'll be there on that roof again...with my new Cardinals sock hat...and this time i'll bring a pair of binoculars...anyone care to join me?
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