I was in the middle of Indiana yesterday...

...when I realized that my chosen route east was going to take me through the toxic wasteland formally known as Richmond, Indiana.

Quickly heading north I crossed into Ohio somewhere near the middle and, opening my MLB app, went in search of what time the Yankees were playing the Clev...

"Hey, wait a minute" I thought, or more likely said out loud. Driving thousands of miles alone will do that. " I'm in Ohio and it's a day game. I've always wanted to go to The Jake Progressive Field and see the Indians Guardians."

All I had to do was figure out what to do with my luggage. There's still enough NYer in me to understand that leaving a car full of valuables in a urban parking not is not a particularly good idea. 

I was about to give up, when my music thumb drive, containing a good 1000 songs and set to random, decided to play "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." I shit you not...

Speaking of shit... Here's a photo of tee shirt from a place in Missouri. You can't believe how much mileage they get out of this concept. 

  

 

The place was packed. Yes, Uranus was packed. Sorry. I'll let you figure out what the liquor store was called. I'll give you a hint... it starts with Uranus and ends with Liquor. 

The Ozarks. 

But I digress. 

I still needed to find a place to store my luggage. 

What I ended up doing was going to a Best Western around 15 miles from the stadium and asking if they could put my bags behind the counter for 5-6 hours. While I didn't have a reservation there I am a Diamond Member of their rewards program. 

They said yes. (Which was very cool BTW.)

I got to the game on time but all of the parking garages were full and I had to park 10 blocks away and by the time I bought the ticket and got inside I missed Aaron Boone's melt down. Bummer. 

Still, I had a blast. It's a really nice place to see a ball game. I was in the lower deck, rightfield but not too far in right. $60 BTW. 

I brought my own food because a few day's earlier I was here...

Nice stadium. Great game. Knowledgeable fans. Their closer wears 99 and all I could think was...

"Throw him the heater Ricky."

And, just like during the regular season in, Major League... 

He blew the save.