June 2004 Archives
The Mariners have won three in a row, and some ex-Mariners are making baseball pretty exciting these days. Ken Griffey Jr. is trying to reach 500 career home runs, and Mike Cameron is getting it done (and again) for the Mets.
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Mariners v. Montreal Expos, June 12, 2004, 7:05pm Final: Mariners 3, Expos 0 Seats: Section 112 , row 28, seats 1, 2, 3 Weather: Cloudy and cool, with rain Roof: Closed Transportation: Drove, parked for $10.00 in our usual lot Hydros: Yellow. Much crowd cheering. Hat Trick: #3, for a change! Food & Drink: 1 large bag Cracker Jacks ($2.00, purchased outside of the stadium); 1 bottle water, 2 jumbo dogs, 1 regular dog ($14.00); 1 small banana split Dippin' Dots ($4.00); 1 pretzel and 1 small Pepsi ($6.00) Play Area: Henry was not interested. Weird. Freebies: 3 USA flags; Spider Man 2 mask and foam hand (It was Spider Man 2 night.) Purchases: 1 dark blue Mariners cap for Henry. (He outgrew his first one.) Usher: Ned Notes: The Mariners finally significantly altered their batting order, with the top of the order Winn, Aurilia, Ichiro!, Boone, Hansen/Martinez. They won so maybe we'll see more of this order, or more tinkering with the order. Or, maybe not. The crowd was rowdy, with some seriously organized and spirited Expos cheering going on in our section and elsewhere in the park. Mariners fans mostly took it with good humor; the Expos are the worst team in baseball right now, saving the Mariners from that fate. Yankees fans would not fare so well... In other fan news, a group of women from the Red Hat Society was at the game, making me think of my Grammy in Worcester, who is a member there. Kids were crazy with the SpiderMan stuff; Henry was just crazy, completely over tired and around the bend. There were many pro-Bocachica signs and he did not disappoint, with a solo home run early in the game.
The game ended with a silly "keystone cops" style rundown between first and second with the tag coming after several back and forths of the ball. I'm not sure how it would be scored... I guess we should start learning that so we can teach Henry in a few years! And, yes, I have been learning how to play "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on our new piano. Thanks to Brad and Henry for taking me out to the ballgame for my birthday!
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Ok, I have a lot to catch up on here. For completeness sake, mini-summaries of all the games we've been to since I last posted are included below. I don't really have a lot to say but my compulsiveness compels me to do this...
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Last month, the Seattle Public Library unveiled it's new Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Built with funds from the "Libraries For All" bond measure Seattle voters approved in 1998, the new library is drawing rave reviews from architecture critics and library patrons alike. Herbert Muschamp of the New York Times called it "the most exciting new building it has been my honor to review." Could it really be that good?
Well, yes. We waited out the grand opening festivities and stopped by later in the week. It's spectacular. I brought my camera expecting to take a few pictures and ended up running down a fresh battery and nearly filling the memory card. I've put a gallery of pictures online for your enjoyment. It was raining while we were there, so I didn't get any pictures from outside, but there are lots of other galleries online (Seattle Times, Seattle Public Library, Glenn Fleishman, Slate).
As for the word "spectacularity," well, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
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