Gwinett Braves - 5/28/12

Guinette Braves at Coolray Field! This was our Memorial day Game. From our hotel, it was just 15 minutes away and we were just a little nervous about the grey sky but excited to see the game. We got there early and were exploring the park when the rain started. Luckily it was still early. We tried to find something interesting for dinner and finally settled on these jumbo dogs - one with chili and cheese, one with Cole slaw and sweet onion relish. They were tasty and MESSY!

The Seats that Michael got were GREAT! Front row on the third base line. I moved back a row as the cup holder was cutting into my leg and left the boys to goof around and make non stop, juvenile jokes about Ryan Sandburg's ass.

Oh yeah, Pete also took a ton of pictures of the aforementioned ass. Oddly, none of us managed to get a picture of him from the front!


So the game was fun except that the poor Braves went down 8-3 early in the game and just sort of spent the whole game there. There was a little bit of a rain delay, so people were starting to get antsy anticipating the fireworks as we headed to the bottom of the 9th. But the Gwinette Braves were not dead yet as they small balled their way to 8-6 and then in dramatic fashion hit a three run homer to walk off the game with a final score of 8-9. They barely had time to celebrate before the lights went out and we had celebratory fireworks! Coined the phrase and the title of our new photo/story blog "Slam and a Half" the number of runs the Braves had to make up, and did, in order to win the game. 

Not Guilty

Not going to feel guilty because I have been so bad about keeping on top of this blog, just going to try to be better.

Here are a few photos from our vacation this summer.

We took 11 days to drive through the South East and see some baseball and return to Cave Mountain lake.

Friday/Saturday
Drive to Atlanta.
Uneventful except for the 2 1/2 hours it took us to get through downtown Chicago and the horrible Motel 6/Denny's/Waffle House experience in Elizabethtown PA (good movie, dump town).

 Saturday we arrived in Atlanta and went to a local Sports bar where they serve the local (Sweet Water) beer. We enjoyed the Cardinals vs. Philly's game on the TV and some wings... yum.

Sunday we drove up (down? over?) to Montgomery AL for some Dreamland BBQ before a Biscuits game. We hooked up with Cheryl and her boyfriend John for lunch.

Downtown Montgomery i lovely, it reminded me a lot of Downtown Beloit, quaint, storefronts and diners.

The BBQ was fantastic, we all ordered sandwiches, but it felt more like a half slab of ribs on some white bread. There was no way you could have picked that up and eaten it like a sandwich. We didn't have any trouble picking up the ribs!

After lunch we headed across the street to the Biscuits stadium. It's very cool, reminded us of a lot of those Building/Stadiums (Camden, Mud Hens, Akron). This used to be an old train depot. The only issue we had on the day was that it was Hot as Hell!

Cheryl had come up with fantatic tickets, second row on the third base side, but it wouldn't have mattered where we were, it was hot and sunny! Good thing there was plenty of cold beer.

After the game, we freshened up and then went to John and Cheryl's local watering hole, Nail on the Head, and drank way too much Yuengling. Meh... we're on vacation!

Next up... Guinette Braves.