Eyewitness Report - 2009 RR Game 2 outing

I am officially down with christening Bar Louie as the pregame meetup location for all ballgames this summer. For one, they have perhaps the most frighteningly skinny woman ive ever seen on their waitstaff.  This definitely puts me in the mindset to eat something. (Note to self: not eating for the entire day of the 2008 RR Game 2 outing was a big mistake)  $3 pints of any draft beer were on special yesterday afternoon and that's quite a value.  Even better were the $1 full size burgers postgame, which is offered every Wednesday night. Here endeth the Bar Louie commercial. 

The game started out badly as the Mets were up 2-0 before our first beer at the Machine Room was quaffed. The beers at the MR are now $8.25 for microbrews that I had never heard of(PJ's?!?) and $7.25 for mass produced domestic light beeyahs.  I went with the Micholob Lt instead of the Nutty Brunette and saved a buck.  Then Joey Votto went yard and the Reds were up 4-2 before we even hit out seats in the lower bowl. 

I must say that we choose the absolute perfect section.  There was plenty of seats to choose from, of course. We wound up being just a few rows behind Paris and Nikki Hilton(more on them later), and only a couple of rows behind the Three Man Douchebag Entourage.  Two rows to my left was "That Guy Who Eats Pizza While Wearing Two Baseball Batting Gloves".  I row ahead of us was Creepy Solo Guy who pretended not to be trying to listen to every word our group said.  Oh, and two seats to Ash's right was a family with two toddlers.  Yes, they overheard multiple F-bomb tirades. 

*Will Carroll of the Internets did in fact join the fray for a few innings.  Since he was working he wasnt able to have a beer with the gang.  But he was there for when the Hilton Sisters between him and Slyde for an inning.  They brought handmade looseleaf notebook paper signs to the ballpark!  It was easy to notice the "Thanks Steve" text but it turns out the small print was much, much more sinister. 

*Snohio was adamant that the midgame temperature was 52 degrees.  The Western and Southern sign outside GABP read 50 degrees at 6pm so I took an opposing position that it was in the mid forties after sundown.  RR Nation fired up their iPhones and other electronic information dissemination instruments.  The vast evidence said it was between 49 and 52 degrees.  I'm here to tell you Game Two is warmer when more alcohol is consumed, it felt chilly this year.

*Justin showed up.  Justin left.  I made Ash laugh with the standard "1.21 Jiggawatts" catchphrase. 

*Taveras tripled, which i caught on my Verizon Qualcomm 3G CDMA Blackberry Curve camera phone.  HAVOC!  The ninth inning against K-Rod was pretty epic.  I think he threw 35+ pitches.  Its a shame the last of those pitches were thrown to AGon and Nix.  tHan was opening stumping for Micah Owings to PH for either of them.  Oh well....

Alright, thats enough for now.  Some of the blanks are always filled in by the participants in the comments below.  I look forward to hearing from the peanut gallery.