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Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Eventually.
Apr. 11th, 2021 09:29 amIt's April, the infield grass is riz,
I wonder where my tickets is!
It's yet another surreal turn as the Lost 2020 becomes the Uncertain 2021. I punched the second chit in my vaccination passport on Wednesday, and, had I been crazy enough to do it, could have been fully qualified to attend the Mets' home opener a mere 21 hours later.
Instead we found out we're getting a kitten today. Maybe JACK could've gotten Jacob deGrom some run support yesterday:P
Not that I'm planning to visit the Queen of Corona anytime soon, anyway. Tickets on the official site begin at over $100, and while SchmubHub shows things as little as six bucks, I have no idea if they're even allowing secondary-market admissions at this point. Plus, I don't want to travel that far or expose beyond necessity until the effectiveness and availability of vaccination have become better known and distributed.
Besides, we have teams closer to here, right?
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As my mother used to say, it's compicated.
We have two minor league teams at the top level of the sport near here, both of whom I've followed and attended games at for ages. Neither played a single game last summer. Locally, the Bisons graciously turned over their unused home field to their parent club from Toronto, which was shutout of their home dome due to the border closure. The Jays played most of their shortened 2020 home season in our own downtown, but only in front of cardboard cutouts. No accessible viewing points (I tried and got shooed), and no television of the games, either.
The border remains shut, and Toronto, now playing early "home" games at their training base in Florida, still plans to settle into their closer-to-home home sometime mid-season, after renovations to suit their millionaire players are complete:
To accommodate the scheduling of major league games and to complete the renovations, our Triple-A team has announced that they will begin their delayed 2021 "home" season at a former Double-A stadium in Trenton, New Jersey. That venue was abandoned by the Lords of Baseball in the off-season's Great Minor League Purge, so Your Buffalo Bisons will play their first several weeks of home games as Their Trenton Thunder. On the road, they will revert to being the Bisons again. By August, they may be the Oregon State Hospital Schizophrenics.
As usual, I have questions. Will Buster show up at Jersey games and get into knife fights with Boomer?
Will Conehead be allowed to sell his famed beer from the Trenton stands or does he have to pay protection to Paulie Walnuts first? And will the usual theme from The Natural play when aBison Thunderer cracks a home run?
More seriously, if they wanted to move the team to a venue left high and dry, why not Dwyer Stadium in Batavia, a mere 30 miles away? That city's team been kicked out of professional baseball and the park reduced to a schedule of college-amateur players in the shuffle.
But at least the Jays will be here, and their home fans are still oot and verbooten from crossing the border to see them. Though the Mets are not on their 2021 "home" schedule for some reason, there'll be real major league play, and living breathing fans in the stands, once the field renos are complete. Here's what they have to say about that:
I wonder where my tickets is!
It's yet another surreal turn as the Lost 2020 becomes the Uncertain 2021. I punched the second chit in my vaccination passport on Wednesday, and, had I been crazy enough to do it, could have been fully qualified to attend the Mets' home opener a mere 21 hours later.
Instead we found out we're getting a kitten today. Maybe JACK could've gotten Jacob deGrom some run support yesterday:P
Not that I'm planning to visit the Queen of Corona anytime soon, anyway. Tickets on the official site begin at over $100, and while SchmubHub shows things as little as six bucks, I have no idea if they're even allowing secondary-market admissions at this point. Plus, I don't want to travel that far or expose beyond necessity until the effectiveness and availability of vaccination have become better known and distributed.
Besides, we have teams closer to here, right?
----
As my mother used to say, it's compicated.
We have two minor league teams at the top level of the sport near here, both of whom I've followed and attended games at for ages. Neither played a single game last summer. Locally, the Bisons graciously turned over their unused home field to their parent club from Toronto, which was shutout of their home dome due to the border closure. The Jays played most of their shortened 2020 home season in our own downtown, but only in front of cardboard cutouts. No accessible viewing points (I tried and got shooed), and no television of the games, either.
The border remains shut, and Toronto, now playing early "home" games at their training base in Florida, still plans to settle into their closer-to-home home sometime mid-season, after renovations to suit their millionaire players are complete:
To accommodate the scheduling of major league games and to complete the renovations, our Triple-A team has announced that they will begin their delayed 2021 "home" season at a former Double-A stadium in Trenton, New Jersey. That venue was abandoned by the Lords of Baseball in the off-season's Great Minor League Purge, so Your Buffalo Bisons will play their first several weeks of home games as Their Trenton Thunder. On the road, they will revert to being the Bisons again. By August, they may be the Oregon State Hospital Schizophrenics.
As usual, I have questions. Will Buster show up at Jersey games and get into knife fights with Boomer?
Will Conehead be allowed to sell his famed beer from the Trenton stands or does he have to pay protection to Paulie Walnuts first? And will the usual theme from The Natural play when a
More seriously, if they wanted to move the team to a venue left high and dry, why not Dwyer Stadium in Batavia, a mere 30 miles away? That city's team been kicked out of professional baseball and the park reduced to a schedule of college-amateur players in the shuffle.
But at least the Jays will be here, and their home fans are still oot and verbooten from crossing the border to see them. Though the Mets are not on their 2021 "home" schedule for some reason, there'll be real major league play, and living breathing fans in the stands, once the field renos are complete. Here's what they have to say about that:
Can I buy tickets for Blue Jays games at Sahlen Field?
- There are no tickets or group hospitality areas currently on sale for any games at Sahlen Field in 2021. If the Blue Jays end up playing home games in Buffalo, NY, ticket availability will be announced on Bisons.com.
Can I get on a waiting list to purchase Blue Jays tickets?
- There is no waiting list for the right to purchase Blue Jays tickets. Should the Blue Jays play games at Sahlen Field in 2021, existing Bisons season ticket holders and pack holders will be given the first right to purchase those tickets (details to be announced).
It's like adopting a rescue. Don't call us, child, we'll call you!
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At least Rochester doesn't have these major complicating issues. The grass is grown, the schedule's set, the home opener's May 18th (at night, the huh?). Sign me up!
Um, that would be a no:
This is your ballpark. Enjoy it!
Look, I get it- the regulations are necessary and change all the time. Yet somehow we got a few thousand fans into Citi and Yankee earlier this month. I just get a bad feeling that all the limited seats are going to wind up in the hands of corporate sponsors and ticket bots.
Or I could easily attend one of the final remaining Sabres games, where seats are plentiful. But if they have a sanity as well as a COVID test, that'd land me in Oregon State Hospital, and I've really lost my taste for Juicy Fruit.