First Phillies Game With My Sister

This is how the weekend with my sister started coming together. My girlfriend and I try to get to a game when she has off in the summer. She has to do her vacation late in the fall, so we planned on this week. She had taken off work late last year when the Phillies schedule came out, thinking we could either see them play the Mets this weekend or try to see Ohtani next week. We thought this might be an important series, but the Mets totally and completely suck ass this year.

When we were visiting her in Florida, we mentioned it. We originally wanted to go to spring training with her, but the girlfriend’s vacation was for the one time the Phillies were mostly away. We also didn’t plan for flight schedules. Now it appears that they added another one out of Harrisburg, so that might make it easier. The real reason I wanted to go down was to see her and meet her significant other. Spring training was something to do.

Shortly after we got home, we began talking about getting together for a game in Philly. It evolved from us staying one night to us staying both nights and hanging out with them the whole time by the time things were settled.

We did other stuff that’s in a previous post and then got changed and headed off to the game.

The sun was peeking out a bit, but the smoke was pretty thick and smelled strong. We had to go upstairs to get a good view of Philly’s Center City skyline. I mean, we get one every time, but this one was unique with it mostly lost in the haze. I am an idiot. I wanted to get a selfie with all of us for memories, but I forgot.

We had excellent seats. I wanted it to be special since it was an exceptional occasion to me. Right in front of us was Molly’s favorite player, so of course I had to get a picture of him.

A major reason I got these tickets, apart from that they were reasonably priced for what they are, is that it was right about where the Phanatic harasses the away team. I would have loved to get ones right behind the Phillies dugout, but they just weren’t available at all. She is obsessed with the Phanatic, so I wanted her to be close to him.

A thing that I didn’t really expect with these seats is that it was right about where the tarp guys come out of the tunnel. Since the smoke wasn’t enough, we had to have a thunderstorm and a rain delay. The cool thing is we were able to boo the tarp guys as they were running past to get the tarp.

It turned out to be a pretty good game. The hitters remembered how to hit. She got to see a Schwarbomb at the Phillies Home Stadium. Stott had a triple, and that is her favorite player, or one of them.

Jesus had a good game.

I grabbed a selfie with my sister after the game and then headed back to Center City.

We wound up going to Irish Pub in Center City and grabbed a couple of beers. It was good and a lot of fun. It has been a long time since I have been in one like that.

It was a special day that I will treasure for the rest of my life. We never had the opportunity when we were younger because we didn’t know, but I couldn’t possibly even imagine a better person to be my sister.