I'm not talking so much about MLB but local Minor Leauge teams. We have just had our season opener with the Goldpanners and not much beats going to the park and watching a game on a nice sunny day. $8 still gets general admission, a beer and hotdog. This team is mostly college players and we have had Tom Seaver, Dave Winfield, Barry Bonds, and Jason Giambi on the roster. My favorite is the Midnite Sun Game played tomorrow. Starts at 10 PM and plays without artificial lighting till its over. I recommend finding a small ballpark going to the game on a sunny day and enjoying. It's as much an American Classic as all the Registered Magnums, pre 64s and SAA we all like.

I forgot to mention try to find a game with wood bats so a hit doesn't sound like an accident in the tool room.

The wife and I like to go to the local single A team games. I don't follow the team that close, but I like attending the games.

I some times will go with a friend whose father managed in the minors for about 40 years. Always fun to hear the stories.

Yea I much prefer "Little Baseball" to the Majors

Havent gone much this year yet
But I follow the Bradenton Marauders

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After the Twins moved into the Metrodome, I started going to Midwest League (A-ball) games down in Iowa. Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Quad Cities, Burlington. It was interesting to talk to the Iowa fans, who were mostly Twins fans. They would wonder that we would be willing to drive all that way to sit out on a drizzly day in hope they could get a game in. They liked the certainty that a domed stadium affords. If they were going to drive four or five hours, they wanted to be sure they would see a game.

Every once in a while I would catch the AAA ICubs at Seck Taylor in Des Moines. I did a bus trip one weekend and caught the Madison Muskies, Cubs in Wrigley and Brewers in Milwaukee County Stadium.

I would usually drive down with a law school buddy, but every so often my stepfather would accompany us. His dad had been a grain trader, and Maurie had a story about just about every little town in SE Minnesota and NE Iowa. He was a tall distinguished gent with white hair, and the hospitality aides, young marketing coeds from Iowa colleges, would fall all over him. Never had to go hunting for beers when Maurie was along.

Then the Saints (Northern League, unaffiliated) came to Saint Paul, and I had season tickets for ten years, 20 to 40 games a year. After a while, the novelty wore off, and when they banned cigar smoking throughout the stadium, I quit going.

Now the Twins have a great new ball park, but I haven't even been there yet.

I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I would love to go to a Braves game with my Dad. Turner field is only about 30mi. away, but ATL traffic sucks, bums wanting money, illegal parking lots, your car gets towed. It just seems to be a big hassle to go to anything like that downtown.

My 2nd cousin is on a local 19 and under all-star team. So me and the wife are attending those when we can. It's a good time.

Going to the professional games is just too expensive. If I beg real nicely, I can get tickets from the company I retired from. But at best that's once a year. Parking in town is just too much of a hassle. I haven't gotten them for a while, so I guess I need to go begging. Even if they turn me down, there is an upside. They'll be afraid to ask me for a favor.

The really bad part is its just outside walking distance. I'm too snotty to ride a bus (anyplace). What I used to do was get tickets and drop the son's and their wives off at the stadium. Then I'd even go back and get them when it was over. And we'd babysit the little ones. That's a lot more fun than the ball game.

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The Brave's stadium is posted. I don't go where my friend and I are not welcome

I go to Safeco Field once in a while. But since the Mariners ownership isn't serious about winning, I don't go as much. I do go to Tacoma Rainers more frequently.

SO far me and the boys have been to:
MLB- Atlanta, St.Louis, and Cincinnati. We're going to Cleavland in August.
Minor League-Nashville, Chattanooga, and Sevierville in TN, and Bowling Green and Florence in Kentucky.
I also attend my sons' Little league, Coach pitch, Jr High, and travel team games. Heck, I even help coach some.
I like baseball!!!

I have season tickets to the Triple A farm team of the World Champion Cardinals, the Memphis Redbirds. have had them since 2000. Minor League baseball is really quite affordable if you compare it to say NBA or NFL and we've seen Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina, Prince Fielder and David Freese up close and before they became famous.

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Love baseball, wife and I have a goal of visiting every major league ball park. have been to several still have a lot to attend. Went back to Houston Minute Maid this week and watched the Astros and Royals. Love to go the Ballpark in Arlington.

Have been to the Rough Riders park in Frisco, it is a great little park and had a very good time there.

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Anyone going to the Rainers game Saturday?

The answer would be Yes. We go to the single A Lowell Spinners games and the Fisher Cats double A games in Manchester, NH. Occasionally catch a Portland Sea Dogs game. I suspect that we go to four or five minor league games for every Red Sox game we see in Boston. It helps to have a friend with Red Sox season tickets or we might never go to Fenway. Minor league games are a great value and you get to see future major league great players.

I used to go to Astros games. Now it's little more than paying too much to see a AA team get beat by big leaguers. Call me a fair weather fan if you will. I consider myself a die hard fan that they're doing everything to kill.

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I love to watch baseball,,but have never been to a major league game.
The last professional baseball game I went to was between the Red Wings and the Havana Sugar Kings at the Norton St. Stadium.
It's been a while I guess.

I used to go to Pro ball games till the players became sports corporations... now the only games of significance I go to are the occasional cactus league game.