You may be aware that I've long held a dream of taking a major sports-related road trip. Inspired by Bob Wood's Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks and countless other folks who've visited every major league ballpark, I eventually would love to take it a step further. So for the last couple of years, I've finagled a schedule that would, with enough money, gasoline and Mountain Dew, get me to a game at every baseball, football, hockey, and basketball venue in one wild winter.
I've made the schedule - at least the baseball and football portion - for the 2002-2003 winter. The football part is the toughest, since there's a very finite number of days when any games are played; the trick is to find a Sunday game in a city that allows you to get to the Monday night site. Very difficult. But not impossible, assuming one can actually get from Phoenix to Denver in just over 24 hours.
So here's my dilemma. I can't do it this year, as you may expect. But I'm tinkering with the idea of doing a "virtual" road trip. It would entail a new blog, with box scores of the games I "go to", links to various local websites of note and roadside attractions I see along the way, and prominent links to the web sites of people I virtually crash with in each city.
This is either a really cool idea or the crowning achievement in my Dork Career. I honestly can't tell which. So I put a poll on the right to see if this would be any interest to anyone at all. The "trip" would "begin" next Wednesday (Giants at Cardinals in St. Louis) so vote quickly.
Posted by michaelf at July 10, 2002 12:20 AMCool idea. I've always dreamed of going on a road trip just like that with my friends and going to every ballpark we possibly can. I like your idea a lot. BTW, I've got a St. Louis Cardinals-related blog at http://www.vousi.com/~mt/hotfootred. I'll put up a link to your site on my blog too. Good luck, and I'll be checking back to see how the "road trip" goes.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Welch on July 10, 2002 06:16 AMOoh, only one person thinks you're a dork, so far! I think this is actually a fun idea. And I think you need to get people (or the parks themselves!) in cities that are on your virtual road trip to send you stuff. Like a jar of that special sauce for sausages from the Brewer's baseball park in Milwaukee. Garlic fries from San Francisco might be tricky. Maybe just the recipe?
Posted by: sooz on July 10, 2002 12:24 PMI needed another option on the poll "Your such a dork, not that there is anything wrong with that!" Since it wasn't available, I went with "Sounds cool..."
Posted by: Chris on July 10, 2002 03:33 PMThats nice and all, but will it actually quell the desire to go and see these ballparks? No. You actually need to be there. Hence, I thinkk you should find all the ballparks that are within a weekend trip of Boston (minors, frontier league, etc) and do something on all of them. Kind of like that link you had up a while back from the couple who traversed the south and whatnot. Sure, doing something like taking eight hours to see the Buffalo Pilots might be a haul, but you have that whole Niagra Falls thing going on too.
Posted by: Andy on July 10, 2002 10:45 PMThanks, all.
Scott - thanks; it's good to know I have a Cards fan to welcome me on the first leg of the trip. I've got my red sweater all ready to wear at Busch.
Sooz - I will happily accept any and all gifts. Folks who want to give me the food to simulate the ballpark experience, email me and I'll tell you where to send it!
Chris - I figured that anyone who's been reading me for any length of time just kind of assumes that I'm comfortable being called a dork.
Andy - definitely a good point. Buffalo's a bit of a stretch but nothing but inertia is keeping me from hitting Lowell, Portland, some of the teams in CT...nothing says I can't do both!
Posted by: Michael on July 10, 2002 11:08 PMI just noticed that it only tracks IPs on a daily basis. So, daily voting seems to be in order. ;)
Posted by: sooz on July 11, 2002 11:57 AMfinish the movie thing first, then i'll vote on this next idea...
Posted by: on July 11, 2002 02:02 PMOoh, an Anonymous Taskmaster! ;)
Posted by: sooz on July 11, 2002 03:51 PMGreat idea! And better to do it now because the way things are going, some of those teams may not be around :P
Say, any opinions on the rumour of a Croshere/Tinsley trade for Kenny Anderson? It sounds terrific to me!
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