I attended my first Major League Baseball game Friday night! Washington Nats vs the Colorado Rockies! I was glad I chose to go with Gou, my chinese friend, cuz then it totally looked like I knew what was going on! I was able to explain all the rules to him and got him going on the basic trash talk.. umm which doesn't work too well from the 5th level..
On the way to the ball park tho we were stopped by a guy handing out nats hats! He just handed them to us and we stopped and were like huh? For free? Really? Sure it's free! For a donation for the blah blah charity.. it was so weird! I'd never had someone hand me the item and then ask for money always the other way around.. me handing them the money and me receiving the item.. course come to think of it that never has happened before! Genius! Well I didn't have any money but Gou did, gave him $10 and then the guy asked Gou if he could help me out since I didn't bring any money.. I just gave my hat back instead of making him pay. Yah I'm a lame barterer. Shoulda said $10 for the both of us thanks have a nice day. Instead poor Gou got ripped off haha. He was okay with it tho.. it was his first hat he'd ever had. Ever.
So the strangeness of the hats continued. I notice all these people walking around all have the same hat on. Not the same one as Gou, a red/white/blue Nats hat. Someone was handing out free hats!!! I looked and looked but couldnt find them. We found our seats and enjoyed the game for a while but the fact that someone was handing out free Nats hats and I didn't have one was just too much to bear!! When this group of girls got back to their seats and all had those dang free hats I knew it was time to act. I was able to locate the source of the free hats. And just so happened they'd just handed out the last ones. 'We only get 10,000 a night..' 10,000 free hats??? 10,000 free hats and I didn't even get one of em!!! Oh well.. I still have my white Wolfpack hat.. what more do i need!
But what was cool was getting up to the main gates and getting ready to go through the check-out location when they stopped letting us in! Weird! And then I noticed everyone was faced towards the big-screen. They were bringing out the American flag and a quartet of brothers began to sing the National Anthem. How cool huh? Everything stopped out of respect. Pretty neat.
Despite a good-looking first inning the Nats didn't do much.. we were down by one (3-2) at the bottom of the 9th. A runner on 1st and no outs. We're getting excited and pumped and hoping for a big come-back finish.. yah the rockies get a double play. Bam. Epic fail. Oh well, can't win every time..
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