Our first baseball game

We live a short and convenient 20-minute bus ride from SafeCo field, home of the Seattle Mariners, so you might expect us to make the trip regularly during baseball season. Apparently not. Through a remarkable oversight on the part of their sports-oriented father, we have not been to a single professional sports game! In fact, other than a couple of pro games I saw in Japan, I have never been to a real game either!

So when my office decided to hold a group “morale event” with families at the Mariners-Tigers game, we just had to go. Mom and Martha stayed home, but Nathan and Leah were surprisingly eager to see what it was like, and even more surprisingly we all had a great time.

On the way to the game, we happened to chat with another Mercer Island couple who were obvious, big Mariners. When they asked who we hoped would win, Leah immediately said Seattle, but then I pointed out that Grandma & Grandpa are from Detroit. To which Nathan, our precious conflict-avoiding middle child said “I hope it’s a tie”. As it turned out, the Mariners lost badly. We left at the end of the 8th inning, thereby missing the only Mariners hit of the day.

The kids had a great time, so will we ever go again? Tickets are $45 each (even for kids) and the food prices are outrageous ($4 for a bottle of water?!?) Still, I suppose I owe it to Martha to take her. So who knows, maybe we'll make that bus ride again someday.