Wednesday
Go Jackals!
Day: 1 -------- Pounds Lost: 0
(I should probably get an electronic
scale just to be sure that 0 is right)
Hey, the family watched the New Jersey Jackals win last night. Now there’s a Mr. Mom / family activity that should never be missed: minor league ball. We live pretty close to Montclair University, home of the Northern League Jackals at Yogi Berra Stadium. N.J. Jackals Baseball It’s a great little park that’s both new and comfortable, unlike a couple of the older, sadder parks around. (We’ve been to a few Adirondack Lumberjack games just south of Lake George, which was clearly the place where careers went to die. They’ve since moved to Bangor… I guess $1.00 Coors Light night just wasn’t enough for them.)
In fact Yogi Berra Stadium is what baseball should be all about: $2.00 parking all of a hundred yards from your seat; and in case you’re feeling more fancy than the $6.00 bench seats, the comfy reserved seats right on the line are all of $8.00. The stadium only seats 7,000 so every seat is right on top of the game… in fact the whole thing is the opposite of the big, crazy expensive hassle that seeing the Yanks is. (Or the Mets, I suppose, although I can’t think why anyone would actually go to a Met’s game. ;-) )
And as if that weren’t enough for your fun-baseball-buck, the place is full of young, energetic staff running all the mid-inning contests sponsored by local businesses. There are toilet plunger tosses, water balloon hitting contests, baby races and chasing the mascot around the bases chases, if you will.
Oh, and it’s pretty good baseball too; the level of play is really very high. Actualy makes me a little sad about most of the kid's little league games I sat through... oh well, I've long since stopped mourning all those lost afternoons.
Anyway, all in all a sure bet for a pretty simple, cheap outing for both the family and real fans too. Wherever you live, go find some baseball. Go Jackals!
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Day: 1 -------- Pounds Lost: 0
(I should probably get an electronic
scale just to be sure that 0 is right)
Hey, the family watched the New Jersey Jackals win last night. Now there’s a Mr. Mom / family activity that should never be missed: minor league ball. We live pretty close to Montclair University, home of the Northern League Jackals at Yogi Berra Stadium. N.J. Jackals Baseball It’s a great little park that’s both new and comfortable, unlike a couple of the older, sadder parks around. (We’ve been to a few Adirondack Lumberjack games just south of Lake George, which was clearly the place where careers went to die. They’ve since moved to Bangor… I guess $1.00 Coors Light night just wasn’t enough for them.)
In fact Yogi Berra Stadium is what baseball should be all about: $2.00 parking all of a hundred yards from your seat; and in case you’re feeling more fancy than the $6.00 bench seats, the comfy reserved seats right on the line are all of $8.00. The stadium only seats 7,000 so every seat is right on top of the game… in fact the whole thing is the opposite of the big, crazy expensive hassle that seeing the Yanks is. (Or the Mets, I suppose, although I can’t think why anyone would actually go to a Met’s game. ;-) )
And as if that weren’t enough for your fun-baseball-buck, the place is full of young, energetic staff running all the mid-inning contests sponsored by local businesses. There are toilet plunger tosses, water balloon hitting contests, baby races and chasing the mascot around the bases chases, if you will.
Oh, and it’s pretty good baseball too; the level of play is really very high. Actualy makes me a little sad about most of the kid's little league games I sat through... oh well, I've long since stopped mourning all those lost afternoons.
Anyway, all in all a sure bet for a pretty simple, cheap outing for both the family and real fans too. Wherever you live, go find some baseball. Go Jackals!
