Play ball! 2023 Opening Day in Baltimore

Now that it's safer to travel, I'm going to try to go to at least one new baseball ballpark per year. There's nothing like a summer night at the ballpark.  Last year I started going to the ballpark again after the pandemic hiatus. Before COVID we used to go at least a dozen times per year. Here's one of those times where Seattle Transit featured a picture of us in their IG account. 

Last Year I visited Wrigley Field home of the Chicago Cubs. That was quite something to be in the same building where Babe Ruth called the HR shot in the 1932 World Series. 

I've been to a few ballparks before, I was in the old Yankee Stadium with my Brooklyn-born wife. 

The game was fun, but the subway ride from the Bronx back to Queens was...an adventure, you try wearing Yankee Jerseys in Mets territory. 

EDIT: Added one more picture form Yankee Stadium, I had to find it in my digital vault lol

The very first MLB game I ever went to was what was then called Joe Robbie Stadium in Florida, I don't know what the name would be today, Dolphin's Stadium? Don't Say Gay Stadium? Who knows. 

Anyway, Joe Robbie was possibly the worst baseball ballpark in all of Major League, maybe the world?

We got rained out all the time, the seat angles were all wrong and day games were excruciatingly hot. It still holds a dear place in my heart because it was my first, for a little boy in love with America's past time going to a major league baseball game was a big deal. My first Marlins game cost my mom $4 and I remember the trip because we got a flat tire on the way to the game and a state trooper pulled over and helped us fix it, I was mad because I missed the first pitch. The Marlins played the Houston Astros a team I detest with all my heart. Anyway here's a pic when the Miami Marlins were called the Florida Marlins circa 2005 AD. 

I must say out of all the baseball stadiums we've been to the most beautiful park is in the West. Specifically San Francisco's ATT Park. I don't have any pictures that do it justice, there's nothing wrong with Seattle's T-Mobile, it's a lovely park, but I'm NGL, I was jealous of the Giant's home, the view of the Golden Gate is just breathtaking. Here's a pic with Gabs repping Florida, of course. 

So this year I'm going to go see Opening Day at Baltimore! Can't wait. The Yanks will be playing the Orioles, I already heard that wearing Yankees stuff will get me killed. Fair enough. I'm not going to go wearing Orioles stuff though, I'll just wear a subtle white shirt with blue stripes or something.