Hickory Crawdads 5 Delmarva Shorebirds 0

July 18, 2011

Monday night

with Marc and Erik

Delmarva, MD

First of all, let me just state that this ballpark smelled. Secondly, let me just mention that if you were ever wondering what happened to the next Cal Ripken (Mr. Ryan Minor) wonder no more. He is now the manager of the Class A Delmarva Shorebirds.

We were excited to arrive on The Eastern Shore for our second game of the day.

Upon entry, I was impressed by this Brad Bergeson pennant. Too bad no one bothers to proofread these things. According to this banner, he pitched for the Shorebirds when was 11-years-old. I guess he peaked too early.

Marc snagged a T-shirt that was thrown our way. He wasn't as excited about this horrible shirt as he was by this great one back in '06.
(photo by Erik)

Fore! The kid in the orange shorts couldn't take his eyes off of Sweet Touch.

Before the NBA labor agreement, Erik was hoping to be a scab.

(photo by Marc I think)

What is this - Detroit?

(photo by Erik)

The Crawdads took it to the Shorebirds.

We explored the gift shop. Hi Earl!

And then we had a choice of the arcade or some fruit smoothies. We chose the arcade.

Before we left, we had time for some more mascot-on-Erik action.
(photo by Erik)

The mascot is definitely saying, "Get a load of this guy" with his body language here.
(photo by Marc? Sorry dude, I can't remember which pictures you took.)

Hitching a ride to the next destination.

A few other things of note.

- Marc really enjoyed the way the visiting pitcher pitched but for the life of me, I can't remember why.

- Erik was so busy playing games and posing with mascots that he didn't realize that the Crawdads are a Rangers affiliate and that we had watched two of their top prospects play - Jake Skole and Jurrickson Profar.

- Our tickets were only two dollars.

After the game, there were some shenanigans.

Posted: 11/28/11