thanks everyone, again, tim you really need to get the bugs out, this is the second time i have typed this post, as soon as i tried to insert a hyperlink in the middle of a sentence, when hit the ok button to insert, i got the blank white screen, all the text was wiped out
paul: yes i had a good seat, i usually start thinking about what trips i want to do by mid december when the mlb schedule is released. i then go to a neat roadtrip planner i found through my membership in ballparkchasers.com. that's a website for folks such as myself with the same goal to see all of them
http://www.baseball-roadtrip.com/
that allows me to project out what teams can become a combined trip, i then start checking the team sites for single game ticket sales. surprisingly, there is no standard sales dates, for instance the rockies were on sale by mid january, red sox by february while i had to call the team offices for the brewers and twins to get a sales date, and most of the teams shut their offices for the month of january when they all take vacations. detroit was my only purchase out of the official site, had to go stubhub for that one, bad as detroit's economy and area is, they are still almost all sellouts and my rule of purchase is, if i cannot get a great seat, between home and first/third, field level box, or no more than 20 rows back, then i just do not do it. i lucked out for washington, that was only added in at the end of march when i got the opportunity to be on call for memorial day and get the free extra day off, which then made a dc trip with a side to the air/space annex possible, and they had a surprisingly good seat selection available. it helps out that i am getting only 1 seat, quite often i find myself filling out the box/row next to a family that has bought an odd number of seats such as 3 or 7. fenway was section 26, box 148, row NN seat 5, a great seat in that it was at the top of the stairs up into the section, so photography was pretty unobstructed all day
john: next trip out of town is 5/18, that's a 2 city/2 team/2 nights/3 flights trip. 5/18 to cleveland for the indians, 5/19 to detroit for the tigers, home 5/20. i found that a lot of times short hop flights from cities not to far apart are not too expensive, and i search all the discount sites, kayak,expedia etc. and my personal travel enjoyment standards are that i'll go $125 over the estimated rental car/gas costs if it means 1 hour of flying versus 6 of driving. i'll do a stop or 2 if i have to, but prefer nonstops. i'm also very fortunate to live within reasonable distance of 4 airports, 3 of which can be reached via mass transit, and islip is a good regional that i can park at the ronkonkoma train station and it's a $5.00 15 minute shuttle ride away. cleveland/detroit/ny is all delta, out of jfk with only 1 early flight, that's 0915 friday, but i'm stayi g a block away from progressive field and it's a night game, so i'll have ample time for a pre-game powernap. unfortunately unlike players, i have no trainer to come in and give me a massage after the game. and my next 2 flights are civilized late morning flights
philly could be possible, i'll have to look at the schedule and see where it would work, i would prefer a sat or sunday day game only because then i could day trip it, philly is an easy ride from nyc and there is almost round the clock hourly northeast service, and lirr to ronkonkoma is hourly with 0400-0600 the only outbound service gap
you've all heard of the wisconsin cheeseheads, well boston's answer is the ice head
; Didn't expect a Physics lesson on here. ; It is more a trick of the eye (similar to the "rubber pencil" trick) in my opinion to (unless he is using a severely weighted bat and the heaviness of it is physically bending the neck of the bat)...