Things at a Baseball Game

• Delightfully greasy food (declared guilt-free by means of birthday weekend)
• A great view of the outfield
• Young boys yelling "Right here!  Hit it here!" and pointing to their ball gloves
• A bachelor party that showed up already sloshed
• High fives with strangers when we score a run
• A very real wish that I had remembered to grab sunblock
• Over-sized beverages
• The best kind of chanters behind us, starting a weird, collective cheer to distract the center fielder
• The same part of the same song that you couldn't get out of your head from the third inning
• Fireworks
• A pair of girls in front of me spending an inning or two just taking pictures of themselves
• A man screaming "COTTON CANDY," seemingly unaware of the irony between the harshness of his tone and the innocence of his product
• Dancing with my father for the dance cam even though I was worried about tripping over my purse and subsequently the row in front of me
• Extra innings
• Watching clusters of people "dancing" or whatever the current demand was with one eye on the board to see if their efforts were validated
• A solid, echoing crack of a bat
• A sea of wriggling Abreu "Bleacher Creatures" (the giveaway before the game, see below) whenever he was up to bat
• One snazzy, behind-the-back pass to get a runner out
• Musing that people are never quite so animated as when they might get free stuff
• "Take me Out to the Ballgame" being sung when we're already there
• Clap. Clap. Clap-ca-clap-clap-clap.
• Good company

Abreu says bu-bye!