I Won a Ride with Lou Seal - Worth Every Second

This is really cool. On Friday the 26th, I was a passenger on the Lou Seal-ebrity Ride of the Game! That's right, I scored a ride around the ballpark at the end of the third inning.

You might be thinking... how did Akit afford to pay $400 to ride around the ballpark? The answer is, I didn't pay anything; I won it!

Here's what happened...

I got a call the week before and the lady said, "hi, I'm calling from AAA." I thought to myself, oh crap, what did you do to my membership and insurance? She then told me I was the winner of four Giants tickets; okay... good! And to top it all off, I won a ride with Lou Seal around the ballpark!

It turned out it was a text to win raffle I entered when I was at a July giants game and noticed on the scoreboard information on how to enter. So I took a punch in the arm, put my info into the cell phone and took a chance at fame.

I got an e-mail later that day with all the information I needed to know, and gathered up three people to come along with me; the only people I could find are my co-workers I work and I dragged them along with me for the fun.

I could only pick one person to tag along with me on the golf cart, and I picked my fellow SF State colleague, Amanda. The group (not including me) was two guys and one lady; as a gentleman, I gave up my second seat on the policy of 'ladies first.' The two other guys wanted to bribe me to take them, but even then, I didn't want their money, nor let them pay me for their ballgame tickets.

It was quite interesting. Two reps from the Giants came to our seats to pick-up Amanda and I, and we were waiting for Lou Seal's arrival and the end of the third inning for the moment to shine. That cart driver went FAST! So fast that my other co-worker, Ryan, was able to take a blurry picture of us passing by. At least my famous pin hat didn't fly off in the process.

That was definitely a lot of fun and once in a lifetime opportunity.

Giants vs. Dodgers with Larry King and Lou Seal

I'm probably the luckiest man right now, I was able to get tickets on a Friday morning at 1AM for near front row tickets at the Giants game. Sure, it was $110 for just myself, but the experience and the great photographs was well worth it. The ticket said row "A" but it was not the super luxury tickets that get you right next to the field behind home plate, my seat was one section left of home plate in the front row, behind the luxury "field club" pit.

Here's proof:


But it was so close to the action that I was able to get some great action photographs, but I won't post them here because of the large file size.

Also, I could not believe that Larry King was in the park too! Ya know, that talk show host on CNN was sitting in a nearby section, and he was purchasing some cotton candy and chatting with the vendor. I was able to get this great shot of him. I was joking with my fellow fans next to me and that I would give the photo to the Enquirer.



Lastly, here's one of Lou Seal:


Let's summarize my rants:
Other than the ticket being quite expensive, nothing else to complain about!