Swampers at the Ballpark

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:30 am

FINALLY!

Bronx Drafthouse (884 Gerard Ave, at 161st St, Concourse Village)

Low-down: After years of putting up with sub-standard suds around Yankee Stadium (and a general lack of widespread craft beer bars in the Boogie Down), this craft-centric spot will open in time for baseball season, serving 20 drafts and beer-friendly bar food from a kitchen that’ll stay open till 1am.

Projected Opening: They originally projected a March opening, so look for doors to open soon.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:05 pm

Jeebus, so as hipsters are priced out of Williamsburg, they're gonna stake out that part of the Bronx?

(I was fine with Stans all those years I was still drinking.)

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:21 pm

Stan's is great as a bar, but the beer sucks. There was legitimately not craft option in the area until now.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:38 pm

Over the years I'd noticed a few higher end restaurants and other businesses come and go near the stadium. I figured some would've stuck back in the late 90s between the booming economy and the four world series titles, but no. Maybe this time around it will be different. I used to be up there more often (the Latino Sports office is up there, and there are a couple of boxing gyms) but now I'm never up there other than for a ballgame.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue May 24, 2016 9:47 pm

Took a foul ball off my thumb at Yankee stadium tonight half on bad hands and half because I was too cool to react until the last minute. If I didn't already have one this would haunt me.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed May 25, 2016 11:49 am

mister d wrote:Took a foul ball off my thumb at Yankee stadium tonight half on bad hands and half because I was too cool to react until the last minute. If I didn't already have one this would haunt me.

Man, that sucks. What kind of hit was it?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 25, 2016 12:09 pm

Tailing foul down the 1st base line. "Ironically", Miller Lite can be blamed because I was too lazy to get up for a last beer and that was in my other hand.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed May 25, 2016 12:56 pm

Some of my friends went to the Yanks game yesterday. I was unable to attend with them.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 25, 2016 1:15 pm

mister d wrote:FINALLY!

Bronx Drafthouse (884 Gerard Ave, at 161st St, Concourse Village)

Low-down: After years of putting up with sub-standard suds around Yankee Stadium (and a general lack of widespread craft beer bars in the Boogie Down), this craft-centric spot will open in time for baseball season, serving 20 drafts and beer-friendly bar food from a kitchen that’ll stay open till 1am.

Projected Opening: They originally projected a March opening, so look for doors to open soon.

This place was super meh. Better than what else is around there but the list wasn't impressive at all.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed May 25, 2016 2:20 pm

mister d wrote:Tailing foul down the 1st base line. "Ironically", Miller Lite can be blamed because I was too lazy to get up for a last beer and that was in my other hand.

It can't be as bad as my friend's performance at a Cubs-Giants game years ago. He had a mitt, and he still missed an easy popup. It hit off the heel of his glove.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 25, 2016 2:37 pm

Ick. A grown-up walking in with a glove is humiliating enough.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed May 25, 2016 2:39 pm

mister d wrote:Ick. A grown-up walking in with a glove is humiliating enough.

Says the guy who couldn't catch a foul ball because of the water he was drinking.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed May 25, 2016 3:13 pm

mister d wrote:Ick. A grown-up walking in with a glove is humiliating enough.

We were law students. About as far from being a grown-up as you can be.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed May 25, 2016 4:53 pm

I forgot to mention, I barely missed a foul ball at the mets game two weeks ago. Rather, it barely missed me, because I was ducking away from it. Very high popup (we were ten rows back of the backstop.) landed in the seat next to me, my friend picked it up. Closest (like 12 inches) I've been to one in a decade, but I have no interest in bruising my fingers, just to give the ball to some little kid sitting nearby.

cerrano · Post by **cerrano** » Tue May 31, 2016 9:28 pm

Not a swamper, isn't set at a ballpark, but this posnanski piece kinda meshed with this thread's intended vibe. Joe Pos takes his daughter to see Hamilton.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:48 pm

Braden Shipley's (Triple A Reno) walk up music is a National song. (Which one exactly I couldn't say after hearing only 10 seconds).

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:26 am

My money is that it's something from Boxer. Or Bloodbuzz Ohio.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:58 am

Or the song for the vampire movie soundtrack. You know how kids are.

Post by **brian** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:22 am

govmentchedda wrote:My money is that it's something from Boxer. Or Bloodbuzz Ohio.

Bloodbuzz Ohio I would have clocked. That's one of my favorite National songs.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:28 am

The beginning of Mr. November would be great to walk up to; Mistaken for Strangers too.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 1:38 pm

Lit Up.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:00 pm

Had a grand time at the ol' ballpark today, in the good doctor's seats. Beautiful weather, great seats. Only downside was the Giants' snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:10 pm

I hope you were in the garlic fries line during the top of the fifth.

Post by **Sabo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:52 pm

howard wrote:I hope you were in the garlic fries line during the top of the fifth.

I do not understand the appeal of garlic fries. They smell awful.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:11 pm

Sabo's a vampire!

Post by **brian** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:22 pm

Sabo wrote:
howard wrote:I hope you were in the garlic fries line during the top of the fifth.
I do not understand the appeal of garlic fries. They smell awful.

I'm with Sabes.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:40 pm

We're infested with vampires! They're all over the swamp.

Post by **brian** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:10 pm

Honestly my issue is less with garlic fries per se than with the pervasiveness and intensity of the freaking smell. I like pot and I don't even mind the smell necessarily, but if you put me in a stadium where the stench of it is everywhere and overwhelming I'd probably be annoyed at that as well.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:21 pm

I love the taste and smell of garlic. Yum.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:21 am

brian wrote:Honestly my issue is less with garlic fries per se than with the pervasiveness and intensity of the freaking smell.

I appreciate that point. But like sancarlos, I love the scent. I also love the smell of pot, even though I was never a big smoker (and not at all for a while now).

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:29 am

I loved the smell too but the fries themselves sucked. Soggy as F.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:51 am

howard wrote:
brian wrote:Honestly my issue is less with garlic fries per se than with the pervasiveness and intensity of the freaking smell.
I appreciate that point. But like sancarlos, I love the scent. I also love the smell of pot, even though I was never a big smoker (and not at all for a while now).

I don't know if the pot vaping thing has spread everywhere, but the scentless smoking thing just doesn't do it for me. I mean, I get high and stuff, but I like the opium den aspect of smoking pot sometimes.

And Howard some the pot they have now is insane. 20+ % THC levels. Kids these day don't know what we had to go through!

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 12:48 pm

Any Baltimore Swampers want to come to the game tonight? I was gifted 8 seats and I'm only using 3 of them. Upper deck behind the plate, Bundy vs. Porcello. I could meet you before the game to give you the seats. My older son and I will be there along with a cousin. If you are interested, just email me at neallichter at yahoo dot com. You can also message me on here.

Moreta · Post by **Moreta** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:40 pm

Beautiful day at Comerica Park today.

Post by **Sabo** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 3:01 pm

I haven't been there since the year it opened, but I really liked Comerica.

Post by **brian** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 7:29 pm

There's few better places to see a baseball game and I've been to a bunch of them. Even with my bias I'm confident saying it's a top 10 park.

duff · Post by **duff** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:31 pm

Want to throw in my appreciation of Comerica.

Moreta · Post by **Moreta** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:24 am

I don't have a lot to go on, since I've only seen games at Tiger Stadium, old Yankee Stadium, and Comerica, but I've never had a bad seat at CoPa. It's a gorgeous place to watch a game.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:39 am

Never gone to a game solo. That changes in 90 minutes!

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:03 pm

I'm toying an idea to take a road trip to The D this summer to check out Comerica. I love the lane from the pitcher's mound and the home plate-shaped dirt around home. Both are nice touches.