Giants vs Dodgers Series

Well this season was my first season being a season ticket holder, as you may all know by now there were some benefits in becoming a season ticket holder (STH). The one that got me to buy the tickets was the MVP card, this allowed me to enter an hour before general public and witness Dodgers batting practice from the field and well this is my view when I came inside.

Normally the crowd is about 20-30 people depending on the given day. This day however marked a special day, this was the first day the new owners were in the stadium. So me and my buddy Harry aka Eyes of LA were on the look out to meet the main man, Magic Johnson!

Sorry for the bad picture, my buddy Harry is the pro photographer. I'm just the occasional picture taker from my phone. But anyways even though I am a big Clipper fan, I was happy to have McCourt out of our stadium and I welcomed the new ownership. As for batting practice it was pretty slow I did not catch a single baseball. This year the Dodgers were using the 50th baseballs so my goal was to catch as many as I can. Anyways later on when the Dodgers were finishing their at bats I headed to the dugout to see if I could get some autographs. One of my main hobbies is collecting baseballs and autographs. However I am not the type that sells or buys autographs. Each one of my autographs has a story and whenever a friend or family member points a specific one out I go on about how I got it...Anyways The first person I managed to get over to talk to me and my sister for a second was this guy! Andre Ethier!

He was such a nice guy, I told him how me and my sister were big fans and we wished him well which at the time was early into the season. He is always fan friendly and finally I was able to meet him, from all my years of going to Dodger games he always eluded me and my sister and finally I got this!

I was already stoked so I did not think anything else could match this, however right before we left, Don Mattingly strolled by and took some time to interact with fans and sign autographs as well.

This is what Donnie signed for me, like most times I always ask the player or coach to personalize my items. This is a good tip because some players are suspicious that people will sell their autographs and by asking to personalize it, it reassures them it is for you or for a friend and also they generally take more time and give you a better autograph. So keep that in mind when you ask for an autograph. Anyways as for batting practice we decided to leave because

1)Giants took the field and it smelled pretty bad

2)Me and Harry were trying to go find the new owner...Magic!

So we waited and waited and right before first pitch we got a glimpse of Magic!

As you can see it was a mob scene, a lot of people were waiting for either to take a picture or as in the photo to get an autograph. Personally I was there to just see the new owner and wanted to shake his hand but that was impossible. So now after this we headed back down to the field to go get more autographs, we headed over to the bullpen and this is the best place to score an autograph. Especially all the relive pitchers. And today all the players came over and took time to sign right before the game started, well all but Kenley Jansen...

Josh Lindbloom

Javy Guerra & Scott Elbert

Javy Guerra

So after the national anthem, we decided to head to our seats to enjoy the game and along the way we ran into the voice who sang the national anthem. Katrina Parker, I asked her for a photo and she was so nice and posed for photos with everyone who asked.

Katrina Parker

After this we continued to our seats and I thought the adventure was over for the day, I was wrong. Guess who I bumped into on the escalator, take a guess...

Any ideas?....Yup the penguin Ron Cey, took another pic when I yelled Ron and I got him by surprise.

As for the game the Dodgers won the series taking 2/3 games and as for Giants fans, please keep some class when you lose. Here's a picture that caused a lot of twitter buzz from the Left Field Pavillion people

  Photo Credit : Jon Sohoo

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