I like this! The Saints fans are coming in full force (OK, there’s just two of them so far, but that’s a good start) and calling me out for my last blog, in which I may have insulted them because I said they’re only casual baseball fans.
Let me just clarify a couple things:
1) Yes, I did sit in general admission. But one of my major hang-ups is on people who arrive to baseball games late and spend the first three innings getting up for concessions, to use the restroom, etc. I just can’t stand that. It doesn’t bother me at movies or concerts or anything else — just baseball games.
2) The Eagle did not send me to St. Paul. I came on my own for a little vacation/work experience. I wanted to see what this St. Paul Saints thing was all about.
I’m a baseball elitist, what can I say? I tried to get people around me talking about baseball by calling my friend and talking about Cliff Lee’s performance Friday night against the Twins. There were people in Twins gear around me, but they wouldn’t bite. I just wanted to talk about baseball. With somebody. Anybody. But I guess I didn’t look in the right places.
By the way, the commenter aabfan runs a great American Association website, appropriately named aabfan.com. Definitely worth checking out if you have time. I go there a lot and I’m sure all the Saints fans are ripping me on the message boards there for calling them casual fans. But I like that we’re talking about this, I like that I have some out-of-state readers, and I’m glad to be talking baseball with somebody.
Keep it coming, Minnesota. But keep it casual.
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And we hope you’ll join us for a beer before or after the game. We like “out of towners.”
You’re spot on with the GA thing. Which is precisely why I don’t sit out there. If you took an informal poll of them leaving the game, I’d bet that only 1/4 of them could tell you the final score.
If the Saints WOULD’VE got a Home Run, you’d see that we collect money for Retinitis Pigmentosa (eye disease that took the eyesight from Rebecca Veeck, Owner Mike Veeck’s daughter). At the 10th Inning Stretch we collect quarters for each beer and sell T-Shirts to raise money to fight Autism.
As the owner and proprietor of the 10th Inning Stretch I’d love to have you and your travelling party join us for a brew or two and plenty of quality baseball conversation. Just a warning though, Cubs fans are frowned upon, I’m a Brewer fan along with a Twins and Saints fan. Hope to see you at the 10th.
Thanks to you and your crew for paying us a visit yesterday, hope we made it worthwhile. I hope I get to make it down to see you folks sometime.