Last night a couple friends of mine, Mrs. Blowfish and I went to the Royals game. Had a generally lousy time. Not because of the company, and Mrs. Blowfish was a trouper.

Here's why:

1. Because of the construction at the ball park, my friend who was in charge of getting the tix couldn't find an open ticket booth to buy pre-sale tickets at Kauffman. This is like two weeks ago. He buys them at ticket master instead, and we pay $15 more for the seats because of fees.

2. It was 38 degrees with a north wind gusting to 35mph.

3. The main reason we went was because it was Billy Butler jersey night. But the Royals only made 20,000 of them, and sold 39,000 seats. So only half of the fans got one. We showed up 90 minutes ahead of first pitch and didn't get one. The guys at the gate said they were all gone in the first 30 minutes, some people has lined up six hours early.

4. Basic beer now $7 each. Yikes.

5. Our seats were about six rows from the very top, and it was cold. Real cold. We were dressed like for a Chiefs game, but for some reason, cold weather for baseball always seems worse than Chiefs cold.

6. Royals get three lousy hits, get shut out 2-0, their second shut out in a row, fall out of first place.

We stayed until the 8th. My wife was cold, and so was I. Glad to get out of there.

I think I'll just watch the Royals on TV this year. That way if I start to get disappointed, I'll only have emotional, and not financial, investment. And I certainly won't use first 20,000 promotional items as any kind of motivation.
One of the ticket takers told my friend "You bought a ticket and parking, we don't owe you anything more if you can't get here early enough." Nice.

If it makes you that tired, quit watching. :shrug:

C'mon people, it's a Billy freakin' Butler t-shirt. He'll probably be out of the league in 3 years anyway...

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I wa sso pissed off who cares about the royals i want my butler shirt

It's all about the UNI's!

I keep waiting for the Chiefs to change uniforms to get some karma.

As I said before if they get out of April with a .500 record I'll be happy. If they do a couple better than that I'll be ecstatic.
The Royals have historically blown chunks in April. Even during the 70's and 80's.

What a dick that guy was to your friend....also it pissed me off seeing some fans showing off their jerseys as the last ones and rubbing it in all of our faces, i proceeded to yell and cuss at the db after that. I dont care it did not seem like 20k jerseys, i didnt see 1000 empty boxes anywhere..

Oh well, i'll get over it and get my royals blanket 2 weeks from now i guess

How many do you think there were of each size, i was just suprised as early as we got there that we had no chance and the line was moving. How many entrances are there then you think? The side we were at there was 2, then i moved to the middle area by the statues and there were maybe 5 or 6 and it seemed within 15-20 min they were gone. I also noticed several people with 4 or 5 jerseys in each hand...i thought it was the first 20k people, not first 20k tickets? I think that peeved me more than anything then just people wearing their own jerseys. Gotta love the people that got the jerseys and then left with a few in their hand as well!