One day at work boss says You’re going to the Mariner’s game tonight. The company had season tickets they would give away as spiffs usually the owner or a VP or something would go with whoever but this night they were all busy. But I don’t like baseball. Too bad, you’re going!
So I tell the guy look baseball is so boring, the King Beers are expensive (it was the King Dome back then), we need to start drinking heavily. We meet at this pub across the street and quaff until the last second. Okay, let’s go. I have no idea where we are going.
Turns out the company bought tickets right behind home plate. You can not get any closer. No sooner do we sit down than this new guy Ken Griffey Jr steps up. First pitch, CRACK!!!!! SIZZLE!!!!! LINE DRIVE HOME RUN!!!
Okay that was pretty cool. Maybe baseball not so boring after all. Nine boring innings later.... nevermind, had it right to begin with.
Until 20 some odd years later Letterman is interviewing the now famous Ken Griffey Jr asking what was it like first time at bat in the Majors. Griffey says, "Well my first at-bat I hit a homer, so pretty good." And it was only then I realized I had seen that first at-bat.
It was not until another 20 years had gone by that I bought my first home run speakers, Tekton Moab. And with that he executes the perfect, indeed one might say reference level, off topic post save.
So I tell the guy look baseball is so boring, the King Beers are expensive (it was the King Dome back then), we need to start drinking heavily. We meet at this pub across the street and quaff until the last second. Okay, let’s go. I have no idea where we are going.
Turns out the company bought tickets right behind home plate. You can not get any closer. No sooner do we sit down than this new guy Ken Griffey Jr steps up. First pitch, CRACK!!!!! SIZZLE!!!!! LINE DRIVE HOME RUN!!!
Okay that was pretty cool. Maybe baseball not so boring after all. Nine boring innings later.... nevermind, had it right to begin with.
Until 20 some odd years later Letterman is interviewing the now famous Ken Griffey Jr asking what was it like first time at bat in the Majors. Griffey says, "Well my first at-bat I hit a homer, so pretty good." And it was only then I realized I had seen that first at-bat.
It was not until another 20 years had gone by that I bought my first home run speakers, Tekton Moab. And with that he executes the perfect, indeed one might say reference level, off topic post save.