Go Dodgers!

This weekend Austin and I went to a Dodger’s game. Everyone else in our group may say that we went to a Diamondback’s game, but when you grow up in Southern California, there’s an unwritten rule that you will always root for your California team no matter where you live; whether it’s college football, MLB or the NBA. Once you’re a fan of a team in CA you will be until the end of time.

A few weeks ago a friend of ours called us up and invited us to the game. She had reserved the Owner’s Suite at the Diamondback’s stadium for her husband’s birthday and was inviting about 25 of us from the neighborhood to come along. We couldn’t wait! We knew everyone would be rooting for the Dbacks of course, so just to have a little more fun, I ran to the good ol’ local Wal-Mart and bought ourselves two brand new Dodgers shirt to have a little fun with everyone.

If you remember a few months ago, this was the same couple that had the amazing Halloween party in October and gave away iPod shuffles, so we knew it was going to be a fun group and a great time. We met at their house at 3:30 in our bright royal blue shirts and instantly were heckled. “How many straight games have the Dodgers lost?” Ohhh, that’d be 8. “How many games are the Dodgers behind the Dbacks?” That’d be 4 ½. “What was the score of last nights game?” Dbacks 9 and Dodgers 2. Yes, it stung a little….okay a lot, but we were sure we would bring good luck.

We carpooled to the stadium and lucky for us, it was Hispanic Heritage Day at the ballpark (funny, I know) and they were giving out “Los Dbacks” (notice the Los because of Hispanic Heritage Day :)) hats with hair Velcro'd into to look like their star Eric Byrnes who also has a show on Fox. To make the heckling even grander, they were also handing out huge red signs that read BEAT LA and the group definitely took advantage of that. Austin loved the trash talk, but up to this point he really didn’t have much to defend our team.

The cute little lady escorted us to our suite. Amazing! Couches, 5 TV’s, all you can eat, all you can drink, Haagen Daz ice cream (to die for) and great seats above home plate. Tina, the birthday boy’s cute wife, had Diamondback hats for everyone as well, and even though we had on “those ugly t-shirts” she still shared two with us. The night got really fun when Manny Ramirez homered in the third inning. We stood up and danced and everyone tried to hold their signs in front of our faces. The Diamondbacks answered right back in the bottom of the third with a run of their own. We heard the cheers and trash talk loud and clear. It’s kinda not fun being 2 Dodgers against 28 Diamondback fans. Lucky for us, Ramiez homered again later in the game, and for fear of sounding like ESPN for too long, the Dodgers came out with their first victory in quite some time. We won!! The final score ended up being 6 to 2 and we attributed this sweet little victory to two little fans sporting Wal-mart Dodger shirts!

Austin was psyched (how long has it been since you heard that word?). He really was going crazy. The rest of the group were good sports and in the end we took a big group picture, and even though they were all supposed to be holding their BEAT LA signs and crying with Austin and I standing tall and proud in the middle, you can tell we all had a great time.

Just to rub it in a little more, Austin thinks he’s going to wear his Dodger shirt under his shirt and tie today to Church. Nothing like a little sportsmanship! For me, I’m just glad I had a fun distraction from leaving Wyatt home with his first official babysitters (yes, we had two!) Look at these two in their new Eric Byrnes hats!!