report from the fields

road tripped with suz this past weekend
up to toronto

why

why not

not like i wanted to catch up on sleep or anything

even though we started at 0430 on saturday we were still
late [traffic]
for the beating the sox took that afternoon
but in time to take a great deal of
shit
from people who were die hard blue jay fans
at least that day
since they won
here's a hint kids
if you're going to harangue folks that made a nine-hour trip to your city
to see their team
you ought to at least be somewhat well-informed about the sport in question

happily since i was wearing my revs jersey we could at least greet
the subset of the subset
around the ballpark with high fives and impromptu singing

also met lots of nice toronto fc fans around the city
it's telling that you can walk around town and people will ask if you're
going to the game
it's an event and people know about it
and if they aren't going they seem like they'd like to be

amusingly we ran into another group on the subway
figured we'd follow them to their stadium rather than interpret directions we got earlier
bad idea
they nearly wound up following us instead
but they were friendly and knowledgeable

bmo field is cool
not much to the stadium itself
but the view is spectacular
the moreso with the carnival rides around it
and it's full and plainly the place to be on match night
they have 28oz sippy cups of carlsberg

the revs kept the home fans relatively quiet for most of the match
but they went uniformly apeshit when they finally took advantage of
a bad five minutes and
scored

later we repaired to a pub down the street
[didn't find the supporters' pub until the drive out of the city]
and continued to take good natured shit from the locals
walked must of the long way back to the hotel
then hopped the turnstile in a deserted subway to catch the last train

i don't think we ate inside once the whole weekend

the next day was a better one for the sox
got to watch the roof of the skydome open
and a variety of players flash their occasional power for the win
didn't take any crap from toronto fans that day

the extra innings were ill-timed however
meant that at 8pm we were staring at niagara falls
pretty
but a bad sign

the little dude doesn't much care for the crappy roads of the
thruway or ontario but other than that
he's game for road trips
although mileage appears to peak somewhere short of the 75mph
i'm accustomed to

got in at 3am

photos are here