So lately I’ve really been getting into baseball!  So much in fact that I almost went to 3 home games this weekend. (It happened to be the Redbird’s last home stand.)  The Sunday game was when I went on that blind date.    I even let Boy A explain the finer aspects of the sport to me and for once it didn’t bother me. 

The next day (Monday) I went to the game with my best friend Kait and here she is:

Kaitlyn at a Redbird's game

And she proceeded to take a truly horrible fat face picture of me that I am going to post anyways:

Myself, at a Redbirds game.

We really had a great time.  I completely understand why people get completely smashed at these games.  Baseball is awesome when you are drinking beer!  Even though we didn’t always know what was going on, we decided this is going to be our new thing: live sports and beer.  Because I’ve always played sports and then had beer afterwards, but enjoying the fan atmosphere at any sporting event happens to be really, well, enjoyable.  Even the ridiculous games in between innings and all of the crazy sound bites were awesome.  I also picked a player to attach myself too. (And by attach I mean get all fangirl and gush over how cute he is and be really excited when he hits that homerun that I know he will.) His name is Mark Hamilton. : )  He is the first baseman.

 
If you don’t know who the Redbird’s are then let me tell you.  They are the trip A (AAA) affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, which is the major league team I may actually become a fan of.  They play in Autozone Park , which is gorgeous btw, right in the heart of Memphis.
 
I really like this team and expect me to become a hardcore Redbird’s fan in the following summer.  The only thing I DIDN’T enjoy at the game was being frightened by the mascot, Rocky the Redbird, when he screamed “Hey!” at me.  Kaitlyn thought it was hilaaarious though.