The Annual (Or So) Sky Sox Game

My friend Mark and I drove down to Colorado Springs last night to see the Colorado Springs AAA baseball team play the New Orleans Baby Cakes (Yes!  The Baby Cakes!).  The Baby Cakes used to be the Denver Zephyrs before the major league Colorado Rockies came to town and forced them to move, so I thought it would be a good game to see.  Minor league baseball is a lot of fun - the players all want to get to the major leagues, and therefore give it their all, and they have lots of fun promotions every half inning.  Plus, you can usually sit in the front few rows at a fraction of the price of major league baseball.  However, last night was Harry Potter Fireworks Night, and so we had to sit in the last row of the infield, but they were still good seats.  It poured like crazy on the drive down from Denver, and I was worried it would be a washout like last year, when we spent the evening at the local On The Border Mexican restaurant instead.  However, the skies cleared by the time we arrived, and it turned out to be a really nice evening.  In the collage above, going clockwise, are myself and Mark at the park, a photograph of a wizard (many of them seemed to be wandering the stands that night), a view of the baseball action, and some kids interacting with the mascot, the Sky Sox Fox.  Sadly, the Sky Sox will be moving to San Antonio in a couple of years, a city of over 2 million people, which is building them a new stadium.  The current stadium seems pretty good to me, but I guess with a larger population base the Sky Sox can probably draw larger crowds.  The organization plans to move one of their Single A teams to Colorado Springs to replace the Sox, and so hopefully things won't change too much.  We'll still always have the Sky Sox Fox and those crazy wizards who seem to infest Colorado Springs.  When are they going to do something about that?