AirHogs

This past spring Herman emailed me with news that he had been given two tickets to an AirHogs game because he entered a name in their contest to name the new minor league ballclub in Grand Prairie (his choice was not the winner). He told them he couldn't attend, but asked if they'd hold the tickets at Will Call in my name. They said yes.

Well, the game in question was this past week. The Warpigs and FFTs attended on the tickets from Herman. That alone was enough to make it a memorable evening.

But... there was more. First of all, the game was delayed at the start for 2:15 due to a rain storm that came thru. And it almost didn't get started at all. The grounds crew looked like they had never had an opportunity to practice getting a tarp off the field, and the bullpen mounds were almost too wet and muddy to repair in such a short time. AirHog manager Pete Incaviglia was down at the home team bullpen complaining that his pitcher wasn't going to throw from a muddy mound.

The game, however, did finally get started. The AirHogs jumped all over the Shreveport Sports, and the game got lopsided early. In the bottom of the 5th, a GP batter hit another home run. The following batter, however, was plunked. The pitcher was ejected. The Shreveport manager argued, and he was ejected, too. Not happy with the ejection, he elected to pull his team off the field. The game ended in a forfeit.

I recommend you local guys take in a game in Grand Prairie if you haven't already. It's a nice little park, it's inexpensive, and there are no bad seats. And most of the games last 9 innings.