- Don’t go to any baseball games when you have the chance during the regular season.
- Wait until the end of the season is near and try to fit a game into your schedule.
- Commit to going to the last regular season game and then back out.
- Have your minor league team make the playoffs.
- Decide that you had better go see them in the playoffs or you’ll miss out on seeing them this year.
- Go to the game.
- Park 300-feet from the entrance of the stadium.
- Stand in line for tickets.
- Have your wife shout “Florida!” when a man with a big stack of tickets asks “Who won the NCAA basketball tournament two years ago?”
- Wait for your wife to make a comment about how sexist that question was.
- Decide that women’s basketball isn’t really a sport and the question was valid.
- Take the tickets.
- …that have a special code to get you into the picnic area with free hamburgers, hotdogs, drinks, sides, etc.
- Congratulations. You don’t have to wait in a long line for tickets.
- Go right into the stadium.
- Go ahead. Take a pennant that’s being given away at the gates.
- Go to the picnic area.
- Eat and drink.
- Look at your tickets to find out where you are sitting.
- Take your seats…which are in the second row near home plate.
- Recall why baseball can be boring as you watch 5 1/2 scoreless innings.
- Notice that your pitcher has a no-hitter going through 6.
- Wonder if anyone in the dugout has told the pitcher that he’s got a no-hitter going.
- What?
- Wonder why your team pinch-hit for that pitcher in the bottom of the 6th, taking him out of the game.
- Watch the next pitcher throw 2 hitless innings.
- Your no-hitter is still intact.
- Watch the your closer enter the game.
- Notice that he’s throwing 100+MPH.
- Remark that it really looks like it’s going about 94MPH.
- Watch your closer get out of the inning without giving up a hit.
- Congratulations. You just watched the first no-hitter at your team’s stadium.
- Sit back.
- Watch a spectacular fireworks show for the next 20 minutes.
- Go home.
So it was: super-close parking spot just 10 minutes before the first pitch, free tickets, free food, free drinks, a no-hitter, and free fireworks.