Take me out to the ballgame

As luck would have it, the first chance to bring one of the kids to a Twins game with our season ticket package was today-Fathers Day!  It was a beautiful 80 degree sunny day and the Twins hosted the Detroit Tigers. Ted and Joe got to their seats just before the national anthem, so Joe got the full experience. Joe was full of questions, and baseball isn't the easiest game to learn, but he tried to fit it all into his own logic. He was clear that we wanted Tigers to be out not Twins. And he was quick to tell his mother later about how the pitcher made a mistake and hit the batter. But there were lots of questions about which team was hitting, when the pitcher would come from "behind that little gate" (aka the outfield bullpen), and what inning it was. I think the highlights for Joe (and Ted) was the fireworks during the national anthem, the cotton candy in the first inning, visiting the organist and asking what all the buttons do, the fireworks when Dozier hit a HR to break up the no hitter in the fifth, singing Take Me out to the Ballgame, the ice cream cone in the seventh, and running the bases after the game (every Sunday game is kids day!), and finally the foam finger his Dad bought him on the way out (thats the Rod Carew statue for the non fans out there). Ted couldn't have asked for a better Fathers Day outing or for a better buddy to watch the game with.