single "a" ball.....

I attended a Nashville Sounds game a couple of months ago.  They are a Triple A farm team for the Brewers.  It was fun but the overall experience was kind of blah. The crowd wasn't into it.  The players weren't into it. I chalked it up to the hot weather.
Today I drove 65 miles to Bowling Green, KY to see the Hot Rods play.  The Hot Rods are the Single A team for the Tampa Bay Rays.  The entire drive was through farmland on country roads.  Bowling Green has a population of 50,000 and is the home of Western Kentucky University.  I went to a Sunday day game and when I got to town, all of the little freshman were moving into the dorms. They were cute.
The baseball team is called the Hot Rods for a couple of reasons - my favorite is that General Motors has been using Bowling Green as the lone manufacturing site for the Corvette since 1981.  Who knew?  The Hot Rods stadium is really nice.  There was a lot of energy for a small crowd.  All of the players had birthdays in 1991 or 1992 and they were having a grand time.  I wish I had discovered them a little earlier in the year.  Play ball...