Jays Review Part 2

This post will be a continuation (or a Part 2, if you will..) of my Jays Review of the Home Opener
This post will be more of a Game Highlights eddition, as opposed to a review.
So here it is.

First our seats: We arrived at the game, with our computer printed tickets. My brother (who is my official co-host for most of the upandcomming Jays games) accidentally clicked the "print" button while purchasing the tickets for the game. It was agreed that ticket stubs are the way to go, and thus each of us expressed our dissapointment at the lack of ticket stubs for this years opener. This dissapointment was short lived, when we arrived and actually saw where we got to sit. For a random, computer generated seat picking system, I have to say I was more than impressed in the result of our purchase. The ticket assigning systom must have loved me.. I won the lottery of electronically assigned seating! YES! We got seats in which, I could rest my feet on the railing (and I did). Basically we were front row on the 3rd baseline near left field. A seat which was filled with loud mouth fans, and catered to sign holding fans (such as my brother and I) and also provided the long sought after perfect view of the field.

Second the fans: Ok Ok. So the fans wer'nt exactly New York esk. If you have ever had the pleasure of sitting in the presence of NY fans you know that they can produce even the most random of statistics, and can come up with punch lines that will make you nod your head and laugh to yourself in agreement (even if you dont really agree). These fans would never think of saying anything like "Even Cindarella gets to the ball faster than you Wells, or KENNY PICK UP THE PHONE" instead they resorted to statements which lacked knowledge or any type of real knowlege. Still there was the occational funny statement, and that was a great source of enteratinment. Also, at one point in the game, an unlucky fan who had mistakenly choosen to wear a Boston hat got taunted by an entire section, until finally he was tossed from the game, to the sound of cheering and singing by all the fans in that area. Needless to say, wearing a hat that has any other baseball team (especially a direct opponent) is pretty much BAD IDEA JEANS. It sure does provide for some entertainment though. Another fan sitting in the outfield section (nearest to us) caught a home run ball from the other team. This would have been met with applause if HE had choosen to throw back the ball. HE, however, did not throw back the ball. Instead he ended up enduring relentless cants right up until the end of the game (no less than 3 innings worth). I put the HE in big letters, because the fact that a guy would cling to a home run ball is kind of funny. Sure I can see how a girl would keep it because its pretty, or for centimental purposes (it is of course a memory). A male however, does not see things as pretty or centimental, and therefore is pretty much wired to throw a ball liek this back. Males usually get huge kicks, and self recognition for acts such as this. After all throwing back a home run ball from the other team is a heroic act. This guy was no hero, and instead clug to the ball like a(all the statements that I can come up with for this are inappropriate). On the positive side, Bengie hit a hommer that resulted in consistant cheers of approval and love from fans. Bengie has a great cheering name that could come in handy for many games to come... PRovided he continues to produce...
Thirdly Post Game: Even the walk back to the train this year was filled with happy cheering fans. Last year everyone trickled out of the stadium and situated themselves on the train for their long ride home. People chatted and went their seperate ways. This year there were throngs of fans all trying to jam through the skywalk and mash on to filled train cars. Getting on to the train felt like boarding the titanic (more precicely getting off of the Titanic) in which all the carts were full.. It was GREAT. People continued to cheer all the way home... THere were chants in the skywalk, and discussions on the train (while we sat on the upperdeck floor because of the lack of seats).

Simply put if the fans stay, and the Jays make a good run, everyone will produce what could be a season similar to the great old days of the early 90's... And if not, its back to having the Jays to myself, where I can go and feel like Im the only one in the stadium. I like both sitautoins, but I prefer having fans, as its better for the team as a whole... And I like to think of myself as a team player. So good luck Jays, and thanks for a great start to what looks like the makings of a great season...