I was lucky enough to get 4 seats for last Sunday’s game against the Rockies given to me early last week. I rounded up a couple of friends and after a beer at my place we wandered down to the stadium. We got to there only to realize that these weren’t regular nosebleeds, they were club seats! We walked up a stairway, watching the escalators carry people above us to the upper deck, still not realizing quite how good we had it.
All of a sudden we were met with a set of glass doors, on the other side of which was sweet, cool A/C. “Tickets please fellas,” called a lady at a narrow podium, slipping us pink wristbands after verification of our seats.
The next words out of her mouth really threw me for a loop. “Go ahead and help yourselves to some food, there’s stuff all along the concourse.”
To think I almost bought peanuts to bring in the stadium
I picked up my jaw off the floor and kept moving. I had been mentally preparing myself to spend loads of cash on food and beer, all the while sweating my ass off, and here I was in the A/C with free Montgomery Inn, La Rosa’s, and what’s more, 20 oz Moerlein OTR on draft for a reasonable (ballpark) price.
Club seats are the best of both worlds. Right along the first base line above the suites, the concourse has A/C while the seats are still outside. I’ve been in boxes before, they’re cool, but you’re a little detached from the actual ballgame experience (“Beer Here!”). In the club the seats are padded, and the nosebleeds above provide some shade, so you’re still on the luxury side of ballpark seating.
It is kinda crazy, I think half the people in this section were under 12.
This kid was either dancing or running up for more cinnamon breadsticks
Too bad they lost 1-0, but at least they got 2 outta 3 in the series.
Still a blast to be at a game.
And I got a new angle of QCS.
Oh yeah, and not only is there free food inside, but free icy pops being handed out in the aisles! Beer cooler anyone?
This was my first Reds game of the season….might be my last cause I won’t get to live this good at any others (unless I win tickets to the county box again like I did last year [which I just read they are not doing this year...BS!])
