My family and I decided to attend the first “dime-a-dog” night last Monday, and we were shocked by how busy the new stadium was. I guess there’s a lot to draw a crowd this year, though, what with the new facility, and the Clippers’ new affiliation with the Cleveland Indians, and of course, the ten cent hot dogs. The size of the crowd and the newness and niceness of the ballpark made me feel like I was watching a really inexpensive majors game.
We did have an issue with sound, however. We were in the lawn seats, which aren’t actually on a lawn, and we couldn’t hear the announcer. You know how it’s sometimes hard to follow live games because there are so many distractions? Without being able to hear anything, there was definitely a separation between us and the action on the field. Nobody really knew what was going on at any given moment. And we probably won’t go again on a dime-a-dog night either; it took five innings for the people in the row behind us to go and come back with their hot dogs. But the hot dogs looked good, so we’d be willing to pay full price if we could get them and come back in one inning.
It was a beautiful park, and we watched the sun set, and my son loved the Clippers’ mascot Louseal (which is a seal but he was convinced it was a cat – there aren’t a lot of seals in our neighborhood). Everybody around us was in such a fantastic mood, which frankly is a little surprising given the size of the crowd and the wait for hot dogs. We didn’t make it to the end of the game, which won’t surprise any parents of two year olds, but we made it long enough to have a really pleasant summer-y evening.
