We're Good Luck Charms!

Tonight was my first Dodger game of the season and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the new developments on the field level.

I picked up the tickets at my parents' house yesterday and today we headed out to Chavez Ravine in enough time to scarf down some food in the new Baseline Box Club before the game. I've been to the Dugout Club several times and heard it would be a junior version of that. They weren't kidding! It was like the Dugout Club had a baby and its name is Baseline Box Club! Good food, very "El Ay" atmosphere, and a VIP feeling.

Tonight, the club served grilled veggies (delish!), mashed potatoes (ya know, just mashed potatoes) and rosemary chicken (wasn't that good and it's pretty hard to mess up chicken for me). I always love the Caesar salad down in the Dugout Club so I was glad to see that the Baseline Club includes that in their salad soiree. I managed to eat pretty healthy tonight, just biting off a taste of B's spicy Louisiana sausage dog and savoring a chocolate fro yo from the softserve machine.

The best part is the endless sodas and bottled water on top of all this food -- all for free! (well, not "FREE." I mean, I guess it's all paid for up front with the ridiculous ticket price, but you end up not handling cash during the game and that feels pretty cool).  THANKS DAD!!!!

We made it down to our seats to see the Team USA Softball team being honored. Normally I'd shrug in a whoop-de-do way, but Jennie Finch and Alicia Hallowell were there, and they are Wildcat Softball players so I had to give them a few GO CATS cheers. I used to work out with Jennie in the NCAA fitness center (she glowed and looked refreshed and healthy while I was drenched and splotchy like a beast) and knew she'd go on to be famous -- and now she's an Olympian. That's pretty cool. And then there's me, the splotchy beast -- an ex college mascot who sells textbooks for a living.

This post is supposed to be about the Dodgers, not the UofA Wildcats -- sorry!

Anyway, back in the box, we sat and chowed down on peanuts that we brought with us from the Club. I kinda felt sorry for the vendors selling bags of $6 peanuts in the baseline box area -- are people really going to buy items from them anymore now that they have the all-you-can-eat "free" food in the Club??

We watched some of the players give autographs. And by watched, I mean DROOLED because Andre Ethier was directly in front of us and I think he's just a dreamboat.

And then it was gametime! This is us, excited to be at our first game of the season together:

We hadn't exactly been performing well in the past few weeks (I say "we" like B and I are out on the field striking out and dropping balls, but we're such Dodger fans, we have to refer to ourselves like we're wearing numbers in the dugout) so I was there for the food and the possibility of making it on the Kiss Cam (sponsored by Smashbox). I had little to no expectations that anything good would happen.

That's a good thing; I was pleasantly surprised. We all were! The first inning saw some action for us and we were in a great mood by the 7th as we (again, with the "we") leading a sizeable lead over the D-Backs (who I hate very much).

We were in such a good mood, I decided to document our 7th Inning Stretch. I must say, B and I usually are rockstars and harmonize and everything, but it's been months since our last go at The Stretch that we were -- okay, I was -- a little shaky. In fact, I effed up the end. But here you go, for your listening (un)enjoyment:

Needless to say, it was an exciting game as the Dodgers continued to steal, get on and run the bases and the D-Backs continued to drop stupid balls in centerfield. Beautiful. We even got to witness Saito's very first at-bat in the major leagues ... EVER. He didn't swing and he looked like he'd never seen a bat before. I swear he was trying to read a manual, tap tap, and ask "is this thing on?" Okay, so he didn't produce anything, but he did save the game and we walked out of there with a 8 to 3 win!

Good game Dodgers and I'd like to think that B and I were your good luck charms, taking you to a win that's hopefully the start of many more.