This one is bothering me. Junior and I hit the game last night and once again we didn’t really have fun. We weren’t miserable, but the entire experience was meh.
I have been increasingly feeling this way.
Last night we got there our usual early (traffic concerns) and went inside.
We were given a t-shirt, not the best looking design, but hey a free t-shirt. So that should be a plus.
We didn’t go in the museum – presumably nothing new to see.
We didn’t go in the store – got enough merch.
We didn’t check out the Rotunda.
Got some food and found a picnic table and hung at Worlds Fare area. I like the picnic tables a lot (seriously). It’s a nice place to chill and they should add more tables around the park.
Didn’t go to center field. He’s getting a little big for the activities out there, and we’ve done them all.
Down to the Star Wars thing. Was it a parade? A costume contest? I guess the latter. The “Bullpen Plaza” is the worst area in the stadium. It’s like the basement storage area of Citi Field. It was a bad look for the Mets and for Disney Star Wars to have something down there. It’s just a bad spot in the park and they should try to figure something else out down there. (They’ve buried the ASG apples there, will post that later.)
So Junior entered the contest on the fly and we had sort of fun. He didn’t win which we never expected to.
Up to our seats and Oh My The Emptiness.
So we sat in our seats and watched a game. I guess it was a “good” game with big long home runs and the good guys winning. But the “when should we leave?” conversation started pretty early on a beautiful summer night – and it wasn’t the whiny kid nor the crotchety dad who started it. We just both were like “why are we here, we could be doing something else.” I don’t know what the Else would have been, but it was still more appealing than sitting in an energy less ballpark.
We made our way through six, and had gotten our fill, and we left.
It wasn’t a bad night. It wasn’t a good night. The battle for my free time and money is being lost (those bridges are not cheap these days!!!! Seriously – 14 and 15 to cross the rivers).
I don’t know what I was looking for, but it’s not at Citi Field this season, and that bothers me.