Adventures in Babysitting

Well, if you can comprehend the post prior to this, you'd have found out that I was at the Philadelphia Phillies game on Friday night. Boy what an adventure. It was our "Firm Night" at the game for all support staff. In prior years, we had two awesome superboxes at Vet Stadium, free food, beer, drinks, etc, all game.

Well, last winter, they blew up Vet Stadium.

On to the new stadium!

Well, this time, we only had a "meeting room" with food and drinks in the side access hallway. Score 0 - 1.

I will say though that the food was excellent as always. ok.. 1 - 1

Fact that we had to serve ourselves when we are always "served" before? 1-2

Getting to our seats was an adventure too. This was my first time at the new stadium, so I had no clue where I was going. Of course our seats were on the other side of the stadium from our "eating room". Found my seat, and I was the first one from our firm in them. I will say though.. the seats were awesome. Left field...20 rows up. 2-2

Phillies lost 10-2. my score now 2-3

Leave stadium... have no clue where subway station is....score 2-5 (extra point for getting lost)

"hey...must have been a big game... not only are there cops outside the stadium, there's also like 20 firetrucks! oh no... I was wrong. Officer informs us Subway is closed. Suspicious device found...." Like we weren't upset enough that they lost the game, now we are stuck cause the subway is the only way out for 20 blocks.

"Go wait there for a Shuttle bus."
Where? there with the other 10,000 people? Yes. Yippee Score 2-9 (trust me. It was that bad)

Shuttle bus came after 90 minutes... it was only 11:30 then... 2-10

Too bad shuttle bus didn't take us to train..nope..just to next station north to wait for subway. 2-11

45 minute wait in dark, crowded, 150 degree subway station. 2-12

Get to train station, and even though I had to scale a fence since it was now past midnight and entrances were closed, I still made the last train out of town.

3-12

Finally got home in more time than the actual playing time of the game I went to see.