Rummaging through old entries here last night I realized I haven’t been updating the blog nearly as much as I did even two years after moving into this house.
The obvious place to start is my renewed interest in baseball. I’ll talk about where it came from later. For now, I want to talk about this year.
In January 2013, as in 2012, Ken and I attended FanFest at Safeco, and planned ahead to compete in the Family Feud-style trivia panel that awards caps to all participants and a pair of upper-level tickets to winners. Our team won, so we both came away with caps and tickets.
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Partway through the day we noticed Iwakuma doing his stint at the M’s Twitter booth and I was able to greet him and say a few words of appreciation.
I was also happy to be able to show David Eskenazi my curious Cuba jersey and a printout of the mystery Griffey ukiyo-e.
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Between then and now I have been trying to plan my season in advance so as not to spend as much time chasing tickets on craigslist as I did last year. I picked up a 6-game share of a season ticket on third base, and three sets of two-ticket $50 gift packs, so ten games so far, twenty tickets, average ticket cost a bit over $25.
Last year I attended about 30 games and my average ticket cost was just over $20, so I feel like I’m heading in the right direction. BECU is sponsoring $10 Mondays and Tuesdays this year again, and the only premium priced games I want to get to for sure are Opening Day and the Sunday 6/30 game against the Cubs, so I think I can assemble a budget plan to get to that $20 level again.
The Pirates are here this year too and I have vague memories of following them for a couple seasons in the early 1970s, memories which I need to excavate.