How can you not love minor league ball? One of the nicer things in my life is that I live close to a city with a minor league ball club. I've been watching the Columbus Clippers since they were the Redbirds back in the 50's and then the Jets. They're the AAA Club for the Yankees and you can see a good game and have a fun night with the family and spend less than 50 bucks including gas, parking, food, and assorted ballpark junk. Additionally, there is someone who's giving away tickets for almost every game when a block is bought by some company.

Last year and almost every year we had free tickets to "Dime-A-Dog Night" and our two families went (4 adults, 4kids). We got there early and were able to upgrade to box seats, ate around 40 dogs, bought a couple of caps, bought drinks and some other munchies too, and went home after seeing a damn good ball game feeling great because the whole night for EIGHT people had cost about $65.00. Geeziz, I can't get a pair of decent Reds tickets for that. Any night's good but the promo nights are especially easy to get free tickets for and like I say, if you want to do the upgrade, it's cheap. We also hit "Sliders Night" last year sponsored by the Slider maker----White Castle. White Castle burgers at a quarter a piece......Man, you can be sicker than hell for only a few bucks!!!

But the ball is always good and that's the main thing. The stadium is park style, close in to downtown, and they went back to grass a few years ago.....just great!!! Wayne and I always enjoy the games and end up commenting invariably about the action. On a good night you see damn near every kind of play and it's rarely boring. If I wasn't just getting through an acute attack of diverticulitis we'd load the van up with both families and go tonight! Check the coupon on the Columbus Clippers Home Page.

Spaw