Worst Opening Day Ever

No one scored any runs except in one half of one inning, the concessions people were all new on the job and took forever, the scoreboard went blank for three or four innings, the roof closed in response to about twelve raindrops, the game only lasted like an hour and half and it was fucking freezing.

ON THE OTHER HAND King Felix seemed to have no problem shouldering his considerable portion of the pitching load, the beer guys have the coldest (and priciest) PBR tallboys in town and people we talked to who were sitting in the even more fucking freezing upper deck said it was better after the roof closed. And the Mariners won. And baseball is back. And even if it was the Worst Opening Day Ever (which obviously it wasn't) it would still have been better than the Best Day at Work Ever.

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By Dan in News on April 3, 2007 10:13 AM

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brad

That was a wonderful opening day. I've seen opening day games in seattle that lasted 4 hours. I'll take a 2.5 hour pitchers duel any day of the week. All hail, King Felix!

Dan

Wow.

Daranee

Whoops, I put HTML brackets on it I guess. Here it is:

This year your Saints Booster Club will again be volunteering to work for Ivar’s at Safeco Field. We have 16 dates to fill. All volunteers must be at least 16 years old, and must hold a current food handlers permit. We need 6 people per game, and 5 of those must be over age 18. For games starting at 7:05, you are required to report to Safeco by 4:30. For games starting at 1:05, start time is 10:30 am. Volunteers are required to wear black pants. This is a really fun, and a relatively easy fundraiser for Boosters. Safeco Field is a very “fan friendly” stadium, plus you get free admittance to one of the most exciting teams in the league! (Not to mention free dinners by Ivar’s).

D.

Dan, the volunteers are fundraisers for various Northwest Charitable groups. I couldn't find anything on Safeco's site, but this is an example on the Seattle Lutheran High School web site.

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The volunteers usually wear name tags denoting their volunteer status.

katie

WHATEVER- We won! I was in the upper deck, and it wasn't that bad. I've been to much colder baseball games in Boston.

Dan

The game was great.

Really, on the concessions people? Volunteers? Some of them seem to be from some kind of outreach program, but volunteers? I can't believe people would put themselves through that just so a little mojo would rub off on them. There has got to be payment involved.

D.

I thought the game itself was great.

As for the concessions people. It always is like that. One word: volunteers. Since Safeco doesn't seem to have enough money to pay for full-time employees, you get extremely nice people completely out of their depth. I remember one time there were two women who couldn't figure out how to put a plastic lid on my pepsi. I watched them for at least a minute fumble. It was excrutiating.

I think Al's Gourmet Dogs outside had a newbie though. That line was especially slow.

-D.