I attended my first Brewer game of the season yesterday with my wife and son. We got the tickets on St. Patty's Day as the Brewers had a special promotion that day that allowed you to buy tickets for $3.17 apiece to the April 6 or 7 games against the Rockies. With a price like that, how could we pass it up?
Our little boy has gone to a Brewer game for three straight seasons now (just one each year so far), and he was pretty good on this trip. It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive from our house to Miller Park by the time you factor in traffic in Milwaukee. We stopped in Waukesha and picked up some friends who had also bought tickets on the promotion. We both had four tickets, but decided to sit separately as our son and his toys and bag would take up a good amount of room. It was a pretty crappy day outside, with temps in the mid- to upper-40's and rain in the forecast.
Thank God for the Miller Park roof, as it meant no matter what baseball would be played. We got to the stadium and got inside, and headed to the concession stand for lunch. Ballpark food isn't exactly diet friendly, but I did the best I could under the circumstances. I went for the Polish Sausage, with no condiments. Also added a 20-ounce Miller High Life, because you can't go to a Brewer game and not get a sausage and beer. Since I only had an apple for breakfast (went light knowing it would probably not be a good food day), the 650 calories from the beer and brat (and a couple waffle fries stolen from the wife) were a little more tolerable. I managed to stay with just that and not add a second brat or anything else.
The game started out rough, as new old pitcher Doug Davis allowed the first five guys to reach and gave up 3 runs in the first inning. Things settled down from there and the Brewers ended up winning 5-4.
Between innings (I think the 3rd and 4th) Ryan Braun lofted a ball he had used to warmup into the stands. My wife and son had gone to the bathroom, but it was coming right at our seats. I had never caught a ball at a game in my life, be it batting practice, home run, foul ball, or thrown in by a player. I certainly wasn't going to miss this best chance, especially wanting to get one for my little boy. I reached out with one hand and snatched it; no glove, no bobble. Ah, I still got it (all-conference 1st baseman in high school, plenty used to catching errant throws over to 1st). A couple guys behind me gave me a bit of a hard time for not letting the kids behind me have it, but they apparently missed the part about me having a 1-year old coming back in a couple minutes.
After the game I was starving, as despite the high calorie count, I had gotten little in the way of decent food during the day. We decided to stop at Denny's on our way home, and since I had gone light earlier in the day, I decided I'd eat a little bigger supper. I went with the Heartland Scramble, which consisted of two eggs, peppers, potatos, and cheese in a skillet scramble, two strips of bacon, two sausage links, hashbrowns, and pancakes. A lot no doubt. I subbed wheat toast for the pancakes though to save some calories there. Apparently I should have looked it up beforehand though, as even with the savings on the toast it was still a 900 calorie meal, putting me about 160 calories over my 1500 calorie goal.
1650 calories is still less than I would normally require and isn't terrible, but its the most I've gone over my goal since I started and not the way to lose the weight I want. So, the Brewers win, we had a good day, but I didn't lose much. All around a pretty solid little Wednesday. About the only thing that would have made it better would have been a Brewer home run, and getting to listen to Uecker's voice trickling into the seating area from the speakers in the concourse level and hearing his home run call, something like this (not the best quality, but for the life of me I can't find a decent version of the call):
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