Saturday June 26th and Sunday June 27th, 2010
Turns out the G20 Summit can interfere with my life.
As one or two of you may know, this past weekend the Toronto Blue Jays were scheduled to host the Philadelphia Phillies. It was going to be a great homecoming. Roy "Doc" Halladay who will probably go down as one of the greatest pitchers.....and Blue Jays.....of all time was traded from Toronto to Philadelphia in the off season. This weekend he was scheduled to pitch at Skydome (sorry....Rogers Centre) for the first time for the visiting team. A lot of people were looking forward to it. However, MLB decided to change the location of the series due to security concerns around the G8/G20 Summit. Anyone who saw the news about the protests will probably agree that it was a good idea the series was moved. There was a question as to why it wasn't moved to a neutral site like Montreal (which was an option). Turns out that the attendance numbers and a large amount of the profit still went to the Jays regardless to where the game would be held (they would be considered the home team) and Philly nearly sells out most of their games so it just made sense.
So instead of heading to Toronto for a couple games, I turned my car around and drove down to Philly. It was an uneventful drive. I drove through a part of New Jersey I have never seen before (and don't need to again) but traffic wasn't that bad so I can't really complain. It was a quick trip (drive down Saturday, game Saturday night, game Sunday afternoon, drive back to Albany Sunday evening). I am still in the process of preparing for my move so I didn't allow myself too much extra time. I even skipped Friday's game.....where I could have seen Doc pitch......but I think it would have hurt too much.
So there really wasn't much time for anything but baseball but I did manage to check out some architecture because the hotel I stayed at was right across the street from City Hall.
So I got to look at this.
And this......but really that was about it .
Getting ready to catch the train. I haven't taken the train in Philadelphia in a long time. I also took a picture of the name of the station so I would get back to the right place. Didn't help.....I went right by it.
Saturday's Game: So glad this guy's head only blocked a small part of my view of left field and I would have had a problem.
The Phillie Phanatic...probably the best mascot in all of sports. We will see him again later.
Wouldn't be a ball game if I didn't meet some random boys. Turns out these guys are friends of Adam Lind......who plays for the Jays.
They took this picture for me.
Driving to the game on Sunday. The random parking you see in Philly. Yes they are parked in a lane down the center of the road. I think that is where they are suppose to park.
Blue Jays Bullpen before the game. I think someone was missing that helmet a bit later.
There he is!! The Phillie Phanatic bugging some Blue Jays fans sitting a few seats down from me. Yes he did sit right down in her lap. It was funny.
He then decided to take the empty seat in front of me......and completely block my view of the plate. It was a little irritating but mostly all good fun.
Brett Cecil doing his thing....but not very well today. It was a 11-2 loss for the Jays. Not a good game at all but any day at the park is worth it.
And that was my last trip to Philadelphia for a while. Short but fun.
Julie
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