Since it is quiet, let’s see what’s happening with the new New Zealand team in the Australian Baseball League!
I like and root for the ABL to succeed, and I find their Friday-Sunday only schedule intriguing. (Anyone down for a 60 game MLB schedule? I am.)
Meanwhile, it seems like a good opportunity for a t-shirt enthusiast in Auckland to start a business. Who wouldn’t want to join in on the Adelaide Invasion road trip for a day out at The Baseball? Plus look at that snazzy Picnic Area just 500 feet from home plate? I know some people who would love that.
The Tailgate area was a masterstroke. Modelled on the time-honoured American sporting tradition of eating and drinking out the back of a vehicle as a pre-game warm-up, the Tuatara opted to extend that through the entire match, keeping the gates on the utes down as the food and booze flowed down the rightfield line.
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The rest of the afternoon was punctuated with all the delightfully endearing teething issues you might expect from such an occasion. The immensely overpowered t-shirt gun sending shirts sailing over the stands and into the mangroves beyond. The big screen that was quickly demoted to scoreboard duties after pitchers complained that’s its placement allowed batters to see what kind of pitch they were about to throw. The crowd stumbles over the lyrics of “Take me out to the Ball game” during the seventh-inning stretch, an institution in any US ballpark.
Source: Opinion: A day out at the baseball: The Auckland Tuatara experience | Newshub
The Tuatara play their next game Friday at 3pm AUK, which is Thursday 9pm Eastern, or roughly just as convenient as watching the NLDS.
Now who wants to pick me up a cap?
