Craig, thanks for the welcome ...sorry about being so late (2 years) in returning a greeting.  Since my family and I are slowly but surely adding to the number of ballparks I want to visit this site much more often. 

Hi Craig,

Yes, I am indeed a SF Giants fan. Looking forward to an excellent series with the Philadelphia Phillies. Go Giants!

Thanks Craig.

Hi. Thanks for the welcome. My husband and I decided two weeks ago that we HAVE to visit all MLB and NFL stadiums before we grow old :) I've already started planning next years trip (april: marlins and rays) and sept. Chicago (will do the nfl stadium as well)

thx

tried to post a blog of my top 10 parks but it didn't post, any ideas what i may have done wrong?

just reading some posts below, yankee stadium looks just like the old park, so what was the point except for more luxury boxes, citifield far and away the better of the 2

Hi Craig - sorry to make you review the same blog post twice - I meant to save it as a draft only but must have chosen a posting time inadvertantly.

I see you have been to both Yankee stadium and Citi Field. Which one did you like better?
I think (new) yankee stadium is built for the wealthy.

Yeah, really caught me off guard that an usher would do that. I mean, why is it any of his business where I got the tickets, just that I did? Why should it matter to him that I didn't have to pay for them, but that I got them and it allowed me entrance into the park, ya know? I just chock it up to Anaheim ushers.

Ok, the cliff notes-ish version of what happened is that I was left tickets at Will Call for last nights game, 4 tix. I got to the game a bit late (we had been up in Hollywood and well, traffic!). So I get my tickets with no problem, I head in, no problems. I was in the Terrace MVP section ($77 seats), so I made my way up 1 escalator to that section and stopped at the usher and handed him my ticket. He looked at it, looked at me and said (loudly) "Who are you with?" I said "Just me" (only handed him 1 of the 4 tickets) and he said it again. So I said "I am by myself". He pointed at the ticket and said "You have to be with someone to get a ticket like that, who are you with?" I really didn't understand the question, so I said, again, "I am by myself right now, what does it matter?" He once again pointed at the ticket, this time to the price of the ticket, where it read "0.00" as the price and said, "To get these tickets you have to be with someone, who are you with??" Finally I was done with this guy after this, and I said, "I don't see where it matters, but I was left tickets at will call, I showed my drivers license and they gave them to me." He said, "Hmmm!" and asked me to wait as he went to talk to someone a few feet away. He returns and like a broken record says, "Who are you with?" I was pissed at that point, so I finally said, "I really don't see where any of this matters, but if you really have to know, I was left these tickets by the Anaheim Angels themselves!!" He then looked at me, his eyes got big and he said, "Come this way". He then took me to the wrong seats, go figure! He told me I had to jump over this one row into the next row. Luckily I noticed that our seat #'s were 16-19, and there was a guy in 19, so I asked him about it. That was row K, the row I was standing in was row J, where I should be. Luckily this fat boy didn't straddle that row to get back there, whatta sight that would have been... all for nothing. Again, worst!

Great pictures of the Mets and Yankees ballparks. We went in 2008 and visited the old ball parks of New York.

Cincinnati and Tampa - just picked up a work trip to Indianapolis in late September so weather permitting I'll get to GAB ... currently looking into trips to Tampa - perhaps when Rays and Yanks square off in early September.

Then I sit back and relax until the Marlins open their new stadium in 2012 :)

Or, I follow through on my threat to see a professional game in a 50 states.

yea craig i am doing all the ballparks in one year!! i got 5 left after kaufmann stadium...which doesn't seem to have public transportation from downtown KC! I might have to cab it for 30 bucks :?(

Thanks Craig

Craig,

I look forward to meeting when I'm out in the Northwest in September.

Here's the tenative game plan:

Thursday, September 2nd I l land in the afternoon in Sea-Tac.

Indians at Mariners 7:10PM

Friday, September 3rd

I'm looking to go Mt. Rainier during the day then I'm going to Portland to see the Beavers play the Las Vegas 51's at 7:05PM.

Saturday, September 4th

I'm hoping to see the Oregon Ducks play the New Mexico Lobos in Eugene at 12:30PM according to New Mexico site but the Ducks site still says TBA.

After that game, I'm going to see the Eugene Emeralds play the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes at 7:05PM at the Crater in Salem-Keizer.

Sunday, September 5th

Indians at Mariners 1:10PM

I'm flying home at 10:15PM that night.

Hopefully you'll be able to make some time to meet up.

I'll keep posted if anything changes and just to remind you a week before like you said.

Have a good day.

Yours truly,

Gary Herman

Thanks, man is this cool. I've been going to ball parks since 1967, when at the age of 7 my Uncle Bob took me to Tiger Stadium.

I love baseball, and am now starting to write blogs. I'm very new to the web, and i just love this stuff.

Good to be amongst true baseball fans.

Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome, Craig.

Thanks. Will add a lot more stuff probably after the trip. UNC Bears huh? My g/f's son goes there and is on this trip with me.

Thanks! I'm super excited!! I've been waiting for a site like this! It took me a long time to find it tho :( but I'm here now!!