Fear the Beard

As Ryan drove to work Friday morning, he was listening to ESPN radio and heard that his team, the San Francisco Giants, were playing the Reds in Cincinnati this weekend. A few hours later, we had ourselves some $4 tickets and headed down to Cincinnati right after work. We missed the first inning, which was fine because the darn game went a full THIRTEEN innings! Around the 8th inning, Ryan and I moved from our nosebleed seats down to the bottom level to stand and watch the last inning. After several more innings of just standing there watching no one get a run, we finally went and grabbed some seats that were way down in front, which worked out perfectly for when one of our favorite players, Brian Wilson ("the beard"), got put in to pitch (both teams went through every pitcher they had). Unfortunately, the Giants lost by one run at the bottom of the 13th. At least we got awesome seats for half the game, got to see Ryan's favorite team, and paid very little for the tickets... totally worth the money. The only downfall (besides the loss) was that it was in the hundreds with high humidity for the entire game! When we finally left Cincinnati at 11:45pm, it had cooled down to about 97 degrees but was still really muggy- it was worse than Arizona! I went through 8 cups of ice and 8 cups of water (resulting in about 88 bathroom trips!) Gotta keep hydrated! Anyway, we got home at about 2 am, but we had a blast! Next time we will have to go when we can see the city a little more, since neither of us has ever really been there for fun.