Football practice field

It is sodded and looks nearly ready. The photo was taken from Razorback Road. I didn't take a picture from the South side. But the parking area is under the practice field. It appears to be just a one level parking area.

You can see the Walker Pavilion just North of the new field. The scoreboard in the background is at John McDonnell field.

Yes, I am in Omaha!

Go Hogs, beat the Gamecocks!

CWS: General Admission High Jinks

The general admission sections at any CWS game is full of people there to have a good time, not there to watch baseball.

They love to start the wave. One night they did multiple versions: normal, fast, very fast, slow, very slow and reversed.

Normally there are a few beach balls tossed. But at game 12, on Thursday, it seemed as though everyone in left field G/A had a beach ball. At the end of an inning they were all tossed in the air, soon ending up on the warning track. Initially, two members of the grounds crew went out to retrieve them, soon followed by the entire grounds crew sprinting out to help.

No buses

This street is normally full of two rows of buses following a game. Not tonight.

Of course the game was cancelled, so I guess they have an excuse. The bus did come about 10 minutes later.

It's wet in Omaha tonight

It's bad luck to be superstitious

That's what a friend always says. So, with that in mind, I brought an assortment of hats to Omaha. I will not wear the same hat to any of the Razorback games. I think that I will buy a new Arkansas hat today. I visited a store yesterday that had a wonderful selection and will add a CWS patch to the hat of my choice.

Left field bullpen

The left field bullpen features the logos of all the participants.

Better seat for UCLA/Fla St

Finally

I finally had a Zestos. It was a chocolate malt and I could taste the malt. YUM.

Scenes from Arkansas CWS win vs USC

Here are a few scenes from Monday's game vs. South Carolina.

Ribby came way up to visit us!

Astin preparing to pitch to the final batter of the game.

Celebrate!

I was a bit wound up after the game. I missed having Holly and Carl to give me one of Carl's excellent margaritas. I had to settle for this.

It's final!!

The Razorbacks defeated South Carolina to go to 2-0 in the College World Series.

Arkansas is away team vs So Car

On the bus, redux

There are always LSU fans at the College World Series, this one (who identifies herself as a coonass) just happens to be married to a Razorback!

Sunday night CWS

The iconic statue which stood in front of Rosenblatt Stadium, is now in front of TD Ameritrade Park. And kids of all ages get their pictures made there.

My seat for the UCLA vs. Arizona game is further into left field, but in the lower deck.

UCLA vs. Arizona

Ticked over tickets

No, not me, I am delighted to be able to be in the ballpark for each of the Razorback games at the College World Series.

Those around me yesterday were not feeling so happy. More than one person told me that they should have gotten tickets elsewhere.

According to the release on ArkansasRazorbacks.com, only those who donate at the Broyles-Matthews level and have baseball season tickets were eligible to purchase tickets from the U of A. I even know someone who has a suite at Baum, yet was not able to get tickets for the CWS.

So those sitting around me were high dollar donors. Yet here we all sat - in the upper deck, way out in left field. Several people said that they were going to complain to Mark Scoby about the location of their seats.

I doubt that complaining will help. I'm sure that the Razorback Ticket office did what it could with what they were given. I'm convinced that it is the same situation as most bowl games, the U of A is not given any choice seats. Those go to the season ticket holders. There are many people in Omaha, and elsewhere who have had season tickets for many years. They may have even expanded the number of season ticket holders when they opened the new ballpark.

So I will be in whatever seat the ticket office sees fit to give me. I will be cheering on the OmaHogs for as long as they are here. And I will continue to be very thankful to those who got me the seat.

Before the game

Headed to the CWS

On the stadium express bus. GHG

Omaha: Here I come!!

 

Believe it or not, I actually thought about not going to Omaha for the College World Series.  Those thoughts did not last long.

I quickly found a motel room for a reasonable price (not easy with the ever-increasing popularity of the event.)  But then began the search for tickets.

It seems that when the series moved from Rosenblatt to Ameritrade, the number of tickets given to the individual schools was greatly reduced.  The best that I can tell, they cut the number for each school in half.

For most schools that would not create any sort of problem.  But this is Arkansas and we do support our Hogs!  What a pain this must be for Mark Scoby and the staff at the Razorback ticket office.

I am pleased to say that I have managed to score one ticket for each of the Razorback games.  Whew!  I am quite thankful to those who helped in my ticket search.

So, I’m off to Omaha on Friday to Call the Hogs!  Now to pack.

Update:  I just got a call and BOB has a place to stay while I’m in Omaha, thanks to Sharon of the Pet Emporium in Pea Ridge.

Go OmaHogs!  Woo Pig Sooie!!