Buffalo Bisons game

I took Kate and Mary to a Buffalo Bisons game this afternoon. It was "Office Professionals day", not sure what that means, except for the fact that it was an afternoon game in the middle of the week.

It poured down rain here last night, and was still sort of trying to rain by the time we left for the game. It was more of a mist downtown when we got our tickets, we went in to get ready for the game.

While waiting 20 minutes at concessions for the hot dogs for the girls ("It takes a long time for a good hot dog to be cooked properly" said the hot dog lady...), we saw on the monitor that they were pulling the tarp on the field. We got out to the stands, and it was definitely raining out there.

A friend from high school, Ron Flesher was at the game, we talked for a while. After about a half hour, there was a little conference between an ump, both coaches, and grounds crew. The grounds crew guys went out near the outfield and tried getting rid of what looked like some pretty swampy grass.

After almost 2 hours, they finally called the game. The announcer told everyone that the tickets could be exchanged for any other 2009 home game. I figured if I walked out of there with the tickets, there was a pretty good likelihood that they would go unused, so we went over to the ticket office. The guy there was mostly explaining to people that they could come any day back to the ballpark and exchange tickets, some people were exchanging then and there. When I got to him, I explained that I was from out of town, and asked if they would be willing to refund my tickets. He went back in the back to talk to someone else, then came back for the card I used to purchase the tickets, a few minutes later I had a refund for the tickets. Sweet deal.

That's all. No one got a hit. No one struck out. A bird came and took a piece of popcorn from Mary that she had dropped...