so I went to this baseball game...
 

I'm not sports photographer by any stretch. And, as usual, I was more interested in taking pictures of the building and stuff going on around the game than the game itself. But, we had pretty good seats and I was able to catch a couple decent baseball shots. It was a lot more exciting than I thought it would be, though. I actually jumped out of my seat and woohoo'd a couple of times. :p

Here's what I saw at the game.

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I was totally enamored of the framework at the top of the dome.
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nice, eh? she had perfect breasts, too :p
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how does it go...hotter than a truck full of cheerleaders? heh, no I just made that up.
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Dang. I saw the Twins and then I saw that you were in a dome and I thought: "WTF, mixedmedia is in town?!?! She should come over and meet the fam." But then I realized that you were in a different dome.

Nice pictures. In the third from the bottom it looks like you caught the gentleman on the right's eye.

Go Rays.

Y'know, I was present there the first week the new baseball diamond was open, and even got nearly every signature of the original starting roster of the once newly-formed Tampa Bay Devil Rays team. I haven't been back there since, though. :(

Did they expand the stadium in the last decade, or is this domed-stadium no longer located within Downtown St. Pete proper? I don't follow baseball as much, or at all, to know these things offhand.

It's pretty much right in downtown St. Pete. But it is my understanding that they are about to tear it down and build a new open air stadium. Open air - in Florida.
I am convinced that sports teams are a major cause of insanity amongst a city's local political set.

Are you serious? It was originally an open-air stadium, then they expand it to include a dome with lights, now they wish to revert? That is insane.

I know, I know. Insane.
I enjoyed St. Petersburg, though. It's a nice, little town.

Correction: It was never an open stadium.

There was serious talk last year of building a new open, but fully covered, stadium down by the bayfront. But, given the economy, those plans are on indefinite hold.

MM, I am a season ticket holder and go to about 25 games a year.

The only people who have bad things to say about the Trop don't go to games there. Florida Marlins fans would give anything to have an Air-conditioned stadium.

Nice pics. The BW adds a different effect.

Thanks for that info, Dave. I enjoyed being in there very much. I hope they decide indefinitely hold for a long time.

Fabulous.
Your keen eye for flavor and humanity,
has me wanting to watch baseball.

Excellent capturing, Ms. Mixed.

I was there last year for a playoff game. I thought it was a decent stadium but then again, Fenway was the only other baseball stadium I had ever been in at the time. Looks like you had great seats.

Nice pictures.

I was thinking about this as I was falling asleep last night, and only now did I retrieve my recollection of it; when you took these pics, were you inside the once-named Thunderdome, now probably named some derivation of Tropicana Field?

the 10th picture down, the picture above crawford, the ref with his hand on the catcher's back, the batter in mid swing....i love that picture and i don't know why, something about the three men and their posture, their relationship to each other, reminds me of interlocking parts of a machine. i'm weird, sorry, but i really really really like this picture.

I believe it is called Tropicana Field...

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Thank you, squeeb :)

wait wait wait..

Boston was in town and you focused on the Rays?!?!?!

/head asplode


other than that.. nice pics :D

oh and Squeeb, I think that's David Ortiz hitting in the picture you like.

ummm, it was the Minnesota Twins...but, I am an ignoramus when it comes to baseball at any rate :)

umm wow. I saw the twins jerseys and everything..

does still being drunk this morning make up for my mistake? I saw the Bos/Tor score and thought it was two different games..

wow. so anyway, I'll just crawl into a hole and die now.

:p

squeeeb, did you notice in that same picture the ball hitting the chalk at the front of the batters box? Really cool pic.