As I am in San Francisco next week I thought it would be foolish not to take the chance to catch a baseball game whilst i am there. Consequently I have booked tickets for the Giants versus the Padred on 27th April at 12:35.
question the first,
for some reason i chose to print the tickets off at home, On the screen i printed them from they were colour, I have a black and white printer and thus the tickets are black and white, will this matter?
question the second,
What time should I look to be arriving at the stadium for a 12:35 game?
The printing shouldn’t matter. They don’t expect everyone to have a color printer.
As for when to arrive, it depends. If you just want to see the game, there’s no reason for you to arrive before 12:25, giving you ten minutes to get to your seat. If you want to see batting practice and such, you might want to show up at 11.
Probably about three hours. Of course, depending on the pitchers, it could be less than two hours.
You’re lucky, SBC Park is absolutely beautiful and the game should be good - both San Francisco and San Diego look to be contenders in the division. Too bad you won’t get to see Barry Bonds, though. Jason Schmidt looks to be pencilled in on the 21st, so you may get to see him pitch, which would be good. I don’t know if a Schmidt - Peavy matchup is possible given the rotation schedules, but that’s what I would hope for.
3 or 4 hours would be good. Should make for a fun afternoon. I don’t know why but I assumed that games would be played in the evening/nighttime. Won’t most of their fans have jobs to go to?
You also might want to check to see what time the stadium plans to open. I saw the Astros play the Braves in Houston last year and the game started at 7:30 PM. I was concerned about Houston traffic and wanted to make sure we got good parking, had time to pick up our tickets at will call and hopefully get an autograph (THANK you Andruw Jones!!). We got there around 5:30 and had to stand in the heat in Houston in August for close to 45 minutes before they opened the doors to the public.
Most games are played at night during the week but daytime games are not uncommon.
It appears your pitching matchup will be Tim Redding (San Diego) against Kirk Reuter (San Fransisco), unless something weird happens; neither team has an off day between now and April 27, so assuming they stick to their current rotations, that’s how it works out.
April in SF, you’re probably looking at a high temp in the 60ish F range, and since it’s an afternoon game, you should be fine. April is a great time to be in San Fran, IMO, and as Neurotik said, it’s a great ballpark.
If you don’t mind rooting against the home team, definitely cheer for the Padres!
Couldn’t be easier. The Giants are the home team, and the Bad Guys. They are on the field first. The Padres are the visiting team, and the Good Guys. They bat first. Throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball.
Well, the Giants will be the team in white with black hats (don’t give me any of that “cream” junk, Gnats snobs) and the Pads will be the team in goldish color jerseys with navy blue hats. No problem telling the difference.
Plus, one team will be in the field, the other batting or on the bases. No sweat.
Don’t let anyone tell you the Giants are the bad guys.
What’s with San Diego and those off-white-grey-gold road uniforms anyway? They’re hideous. Hopefully they’ll have 80’s throwback day on the 21st and you can get to see those brown, orange, and yelloew uni’s – those were great!
Even if it’s 60’s weather-wise, if you’re in the shade, and it’s windy, it could get chilly!
:smack: Sorry. And it’s not like I don’t do that every time I type it, not to mention how obsessive I usually am about spelling. You’d think it’d be easier since I could just think about how silly Saint Fransis looks when I type it and fix it from there. Ah, well.
Well, when they have Bonds, they’re the old and somewhat unfriendly guys. Right now, they’re just the old and boring guys. The Padres are youthful and dynamic! Interesting! Full of division-winning potential just waiting to be harnessed!
(Okay, my aunt has season tickets to the Pads so I have a couple of great seats every time I go out there. Sue me!)
They usually are except on Sundays, when the little kiddies can go and not fall asleep halfway through. Texas gets so hot in the daytime that the Rangers almost never play home day games, though. Weekday day games accommodate teams that have to make a long flight to get to their next scheduled city, or even just to allow the players an early start to a subsequent off day, which both teams have on the 27th. Weekday day games also provide masses of tickets that, most fans being unable to use, can be donated to youth groups and the like.
Some teams don’t admit patrons until an hour or so before game time, preventing any of them from seeing batting practice. I have no explanation for that.
You won’t get to see Barry Bonds play, unfortunately, his steroid-induced knee injury is not responding well to treatment.
