Canon Baseball
Even though I've lived down here for almost 4 years now, I hadn't been to a Potomac Cannons game. The Potomac Cannons are the Cincinatti Reds minor league team, partof the Carolina League. The stadium is only about 5 miles from my house, I drive past it all the time. So Rachel and I decided to go see a game last night.
Walked up to the ticket counter about 5 minutes before game time. Got tickets in the front row, just about halfway between the pitchers mound and home plate. SWEET!!! Best part is that 2 tickets only cost $20. We walked to our seat, and there were maybe 300 other people in the stands. It was spooky quiet for a sporting event, kind of like being at a Mets game. bah dum bah!
The 1st thing that I noticed was how small most of the players were. A good number of them were no bigger than I am. In a modern era where major leaguers are well over 200 pounds, it seemed funny to see guys who were averaging between 5 foot 6 and 5 foot 9 and weighing 150-175 pounds. There wasn't a radar gun, but it seemed like the pitchers were tossing the ball pretty hard. There was a good pop coming off the catchers mit. It was neat being so close to the action. The visiting teams on deck circle was right in front of our seats. I could have literally reached out and grabbed someone on the on deck circle.
One of the big differences between a major league game and minor league game was what happened between innings. Generally at MLB games they have giant jumbo-tron screens and state of the art sound systems. So they usually play music, or show some wacky bloopers in between innings. At the Cannons game, they had little contests in between innings. One involved a little kid racing the Cannons mascot around the bases. The next inning the promotions crew came out with a sling shot and fired some t-shirts into the crowd. One of the more bizarre contests was when they put these bungee harnesses on two little kids and had them run in opposite directions till they crossed the finish line. One of the kids was quite a bit bigger which caused the smaller kid to face plant in the dirt.
We stayed till the 7th inning stretch, then headed home to watch 24. Overall it was a cool experience. Rachel and I plan on going back over the summer when they have fireworks night.
Some pictures can be seen here....
http://www.pbase.com/squilky/cannons_baseball
Here I am with the Cannons mascot "Big Shot"
Walked up to the ticket counter about 5 minutes before game time. Got tickets in the front row, just about halfway between the pitchers mound and home plate. SWEET!!! Best part is that 2 tickets only cost $20. We walked to our seat, and there were maybe 300 other people in the stands. It was spooky quiet for a sporting event, kind of like being at a Mets game. bah dum bah!
The 1st thing that I noticed was how small most of the players were. A good number of them were no bigger than I am. In a modern era where major leaguers are well over 200 pounds, it seemed funny to see guys who were averaging between 5 foot 6 and 5 foot 9 and weighing 150-175 pounds. There wasn't a radar gun, but it seemed like the pitchers were tossing the ball pretty hard. There was a good pop coming off the catchers mit. It was neat being so close to the action. The visiting teams on deck circle was right in front of our seats. I could have literally reached out and grabbed someone on the on deck circle.
One of the big differences between a major league game and minor league game was what happened between innings. Generally at MLB games they have giant jumbo-tron screens and state of the art sound systems. So they usually play music, or show some wacky bloopers in between innings. At the Cannons game, they had little contests in between innings. One involved a little kid racing the Cannons mascot around the bases. The next inning the promotions crew came out with a sling shot and fired some t-shirts into the crowd. One of the more bizarre contests was when they put these bungee harnesses on two little kids and had them run in opposite directions till they crossed the finish line. One of the kids was quite a bit bigger which caused the smaller kid to face plant in the dirt.
We stayed till the 7th inning stretch, then headed home to watch 24. Overall it was a cool experience. Rachel and I plan on going back over the summer when they have fireworks night.
Some pictures can be seen here....
http://www.pbase.com/squilky/cannons_baseball
Here I am with the Cannons mascot "Big Shot"
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