Can I See Baseball This Season?
Hot on the heels of my various posts about wanderlust and past travels, today as I watch a Red Sox exhibition game against the Northeastern Huskies to begin Spring Training, my thoughts turned to Seattle, whose Mariners open the season at the end of March at home against Boston.
Specifically, my thoughts turn to the fact that there are still cheap bleacher seats available for Sunday, March 31.
That doesn’t get me there, of course: I’d also somehow have to budget for the bus or the train there and back on the same day, the latter weirdly being cheaper. The bus and train schedules allow for a same-day trip, although it would mean an early morning departure and a late night return arrival.
That doesn’t address everything, of course: between the physical and psychological resources I’d have to spend and the potential sensory impact of the ballpark, there’s a lot of math to do beyond the financial, itself already problematic.
Despite being an all-day trip, I’d have to pack using only cargo pants pockets, because backpacks aren’t allowed in the ballpark. There’s a disability waiver for that but I don’t think “autism” would qualify. I easily could make an argument that for sensory and resource reasons I need a bag with various kinds of ear protection and clothing layers to handle temperature variations, but if I lost that argument I’d be screwed out of the game after traveling all that way.
I’ve not seen the Red Sox play for around two and a half decades; a friend of mine took me up to see them in Seattle not that long after I moved here. So, let’s just say that I’m thinking deeply about this.
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I guess technically it’s a waiver for regular bags with “medically-necessary” things. I’d never qualify. There’s always this?
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Only later, Amtrak secured, so I realize the even the bleacher seats might be vertigo-including, but absent even a small lottery win that would let me grab a real seat from SeatGeeks, I guess I’ll just see.