Batters Box

Mike and I finally had a date night again. For some reason they have not been as often as I would like. Mike has been concerned that our time in Major League Baseball territory could be getting shorter. So instead of waiting for our normal free tickets, he bought a few games off of one of his season ticket holder employees. So off we went to dinner and arrived at the game a little late. As we were getting ready to walk down into our section (which were nice seats to begin with) we got stopped by a diamondbacks girl who is apparently in charge of "our" section. She asks us if we would like to upgrade our seats to the Batters Box. Instantly, I was confused. Are we going to have to pay for this upgrade? Is this really an upgrade (for those of you who are laughing at me, yes I had NO idea where these tickets were)? I hate accepting something and then being told "Oh, and that will just be $XX.YZ, Thank YOU." Now, Mike on the other hand, after gathering his bearings and the girl telling us we would be closer to the batter than the pitcher, said okay immediately. As we are walking and talking I just keep smiling this confused, yet pleased look. Why us? Where exactly is this? We find out the why us on route to our new seats. She saw our season tickets that we were holding and wanted to treat us, since we were in her section and they are doing a new program for the season ticket holders. Yeah, I am still a little confused too, besides that she thought we were season ticket holders. (Okay, a little slow, Mike just told me they wanted us to upgrade to those seats. Apparently, it didn't occur to me because I would never do it.) We didn't correct her because she really didn't let us and the people that have the tickets are actually in a group that share the tickets, so...



So, she dropped us off at the top of our section and said have fun. We started to go down and we met the next seating person that helps you find your seat (and keeps you out of the section if you don't belong). She smiled and said, "Do you know your way"? No, actually, so she graciously showed us all the way down. You can't even see it from where the top. There are about 18 seats in this little walled off area, for privacy, that used to be a suite. I was very glad to find out the everyone else there had been invited as we had. As we sat down I looked at the tickets more carefully to see how much they would cost....Oh, Nelly. Once in a lifetime opportunity! Unless we hit the Jackpot. (Do we have to buy lotto tickets to do that?) Our heads were just above ground level and we were amazingly close. You could smell the dirt and the grass. It smelled like there had just been a gentle rain. Our little section was all a little taken back by it all. We had a hard time completely concentrating on the game. Mike was thrilled to be close to Greg Maddox as he pitched the game. (Maddox used to be a Cubbie, Mike's true team, although he enjoys the Diamondbacks). Here is the link to our picture in front of the glass we sat behind. Yeah, that close. Amazing. By the way, the new Jumbo Tron screen at the park is awesome too. Can they get any bigger? In a few years....