Summer is Here

Well the exams are graded, final grades will be turned in this Friday, so what’s a guy to do to celebrate the beginning of summer? How about duggout seats at a Seattle Mariners game! That’s right seats right behind the dugout, so that you could put your beer on the dugout and if you yelled at the ump he might mistake you for the coach. Luckily I’m only a mild manner theorist, so no such hijinks came to fruition. Here is a shot from the seats:

The game last night was a good one. A bad call late in the game by the ump (hey I live in Seattle, remember) allowed a grand slam by the opposing Minnesota Twins to tie the game and send it to extra innings. The game was, even at that point, a very long game. In the bottom of the 11th the home crowd got really quiet and a lot of people had headed for their beds. So someone shouted out “I want to go home, Carl!” at the current Seattle batter, Carl Everett, and cracked up the crowd. Well it must have worked! Because two pitches latter he hit a home run over the right field wall to win the game. (And then we were attacked by parents with kids on their shoulders, kids under their arms, and kids hanging onto their legs, who immediately ran to the duggout to see if they could get an autographed ball.)
Summer has officially begun!