Last year I restarted my streak of attending the Guardians home opener. Or if you prefer, since the name was changed from the Indians to the Guardians in 2022, it was my very first Guardians home opener. Either way, I was back at the home opener for the first time since 2019 and for the 16th time in the last 21 years. Why then, did I skip the 2024 ( Read more... )

On Friday, April 7, I went to my first home opener since 2019. My buddy EJ and I sat 300 section over right field, one level up from where we sat for my last game of 2022, a playoff victory over the Yankees. This was the first time I'd sat in that section in I don't know how long - at least since before I had season tickets in 2014, and maybe a lot ( Read more... )

Well, as predicted, there was a lock out. Although an agreement was reached before any of the regular season was lost, it did push the home opener from March 31 to April 15. The new date was the first night of Passover, so we were at my parents instead of in Cleveland and I missed the home opener for the third year in a row. Naturally, the Tribe ( Read more... )

Last year nobody was allowed to attend the Indians Home Opener due to the ongoing pandemic. This year, they allowed in an extremely limited pool of attendees. I believe the stadium was at something like 15% capacity. In any event, I once again I had the option to buy a home opener ticket through my work, but since the opener was prior to my having ( Read more... )

So Friday was the Indians Home Opener. Of course, it was in July because of the ongoing pandemic, which has truncated not just baseball but pretty much every professional sport league that I have even the vaguest interest in. MLB cancelled in the middle of spring training. The 2020 season is scheduled to go only 60 games after wrangling between the ( Read more... )

M and I were at Progressive Field at 4pm on Monday, April 1 for the 2019 Home Opener. M's been to several openers now, none of which were particularly warm, so she knew what she was getting into when it snowed Saturday night. Most of the snow had melted by Monday morning, but I still gave her the option to bail out, which she declined ( Read more... )

The first time I attended the Indians home opener was in 2002* when they beat the Twins 9-5. Why I was in Cleveland on a Monday in early April I cannot say, as I was still 6 weeks from starting my Cleveland job and was living in North Dakota still. The only theory I can come up with on short notice is that I might have been in town for my ( Read more... )

I have been attending and writing about the Indians Home Opener for many years, and attending it for even longer. This year's was nothing particularly special in the big scheme of things. Oh sure, it got postponed one day in the most inept Indians-like way possible (I was already on the train downtown when I found out), but fortunately I was able ( Read more... )

They say once is chance, twice is coincidence and third is tradition (or enemy action, if you're Auric Goldfinger), so by that standard the Indians sending employees to my office to sell home opener tickets in advance is now a proud tradition. This year they gave us a choice of seating areas, so I got two in 552, which is to say the upper deck ( Read more... )

For the second year in a row, the Indians sent representatives to my office to sell tickets to the home opener. So many people bought them that the reps had to call and request more tickets. Good, right? Well, the downpour we had the day prior to the game and the morning of the game scared most of those people away. I saw maybe 20 coworkers at the ( Read more... )