Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 07, 2019

Take public transit (if it exists). Okay, you may be packed in like sardines, but that is part of the character building exercise.

The few times I went to pro hockey games we parked and ate at a restaurant that offered free back and forth bus rides to the Centre. Dropped off and picked up at the door plus great atmosphere and relative safety if you wore the right jersey. P.S. Boston fans are nuts…

Don’t forget the Porta Potty halfway there.

See if you can get Dad to carry you on his shoulders. Many years ago I took the family to Disney World. I lifted one of my daughters to my shoulders for the fireworks show, and about 10 minutes in I thought to myself, this is the last time I’m doing this, these kids are getting heavy.

But will he get the pack through security? Or will some bozo call in a ‘suspicious’ back-pack? Either is possible these days.

With all that hydration, be glad you are male and not female. The lines are quicker.

Get a 3 litre pack.

Here in Madison, the Wisconsin Badgers play their football games in Camp Randall Stadium, which has no parking ramp and effectively zero on-street parking for the 80,000 fans who show up of an autumnal Saturday. But residential front yards and driveways for a mile in every direction are used as ad-hoc parking lots for charges ranging from $5 to $40 per car, depending on distance from the stadium. Interesting way to garner community support, I guess.

Haha! Very funny and true! And… it is why the hydration (beer) lines for the Dads are always open ahead of the game…… no need to stay dehydrated from the journey. :)

Gordie Howe at Olympia outstanding

I guess I was wrong in my guess yesterday (that Mom would stay home and get some much-appreciated rest while Dad and the kids went to the baseball game). Score minus one for me.

Last time I checked, going to see a pro sports team… live… on a “regular” day was about the same cost as a serious vacation. ‘Course I don’t count baseball as a viewable sport. I understand that tickets for baseball games are only half that expensive.

Made it to one pro baseball game. It was mid week. We parked and got to the stadium well enough but getting home was a nightmare! Never did it again.

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It’s probably different in cities with decent mass transit anywhere near the ballpark, where you don’t have to find a parking space or even take a car at all. Or maybe you live in the ‘burbs and still have to find a parking space, but it’s a $40 parking space and it’s at the train station, not downtown. Mass transit seems the way to go.

Then again.

I do recall Patriot’s Day in Boston, when there traditionally is a big-deal early-season home Red Sox game. The Boston Marathon is, of course, held that day, too, and the finish line is not especially far from Fenway. So you end up sharing the overcrowded subway crammed shoulder to shoulder with sweaty, stinky, delirious people self-centeredly focused on perhaps their most important sporting event all year or even their whole lives. Also with people who just finished running a marathon.

That sounds like it might be a bit hot out there.