Take Me Out to the Ballgame

A boy's night out. Greg, Steve, John and I went to a Kansas City Royals baseball game tonight at "The K", Kaufmann Stadium. The Royals were playing the first of a three game series against the Minnesota Twins, John's old team when he lived in Minneapolis.

This was the first time any of us had been to the Royals Stadium since the $250 million remodeling project was completed and the "new" stadium is sure a "Wow". It was always an outstanding ballpark, but now it is truly awesome; with new seats, new seating near the fountains in the outfield, a Hall of Fame and a sports bar in the outfield stands.


This is the view from our "nose bleed" seats in the upper deck . . . but it was a "Royals Night" promotion, the seats were only $5 . . . and there really isn't a bad seat in the whole stadium.












Steve volunteered to make the trek down to the concession stand for beer for the four of us and was surprised by a new rule that they will only sell a maximum of two beers at a time to one person . . . a really dumb rule. So Steve made the climb up to our seats with two beers in hand, then made the trek back down for two more, then made the climb back up to our seats. That sure discouraged us from heavy drinking!

But here's Greg, Steve, and John enjoying the beer Steve worked so hard for.





In the 7th inning, we decided to go look at the rest of the remodeled stadium. So we came down from our high perch to the lower level and walked around the stadium to the outfield area. We had to check out the new outfield seating, the fountains, and especially the new sports bar in the outfield. In fact, you can now walk all the way around the field, which you could not do before.


We had a couple more beers in the outfield sports bar where we could watch the game on television as well as through the open windows. This is the view from the outfield sports bar.

Unfortunately we didn't have a window seat.










We then walked further around the field watching the rest of the game and admiring the outfield fountains closeup. The picture on the left below is of Greg, John, and Steve watching the game from just below the fountains in the outfield. The fountains are quite a sight up close.


















This was the first opportunity I have been able to be together with my sons and son-in-law for a very long time. It was a great boys night out at the ballgame.

Oh yes, the Royals won, 4-2.