This is the greatest Rays opening day ever HOWEVER we had a KC-135 flyover (yay!) that did not actually fly over the stadium (boo!) - ThreadSky

bubbaprog.lol • 52 days ago

This is the greatest Rays opening day ever

HOWEVER

we had a KC-135 flyover (yay!) that did not actually fly over the stadium (boo!)

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hollyanderson.bsky.social•52 days ago

Put the pronouns back in the planes, something is clearly wrong

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

Opening Day: the only time I want to see bunting during a baseball game

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

I just keep shaking my head. It’s all so beautiful, the breeze, the sky. I’m with a guy in his 80s who played Little League on this spot when the nearest team was in Washington and is now watching Major League Baseball.

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

home. it was already the best opening day ever, before the walk-off. what a perfect day of bike riding and baseball

jarebear81787.bsky.social•52 days ago

It was such a different experience, I loved it. From the (okay, what this outdoor baseball vibe like) to chants & saw Stu out in the open during the sell the team chant.

greenjoel.bsky.social•52 days ago

Tampa had to move to a minor league park to have a major league home opener.

totallyfarked.bsky.social•52 days ago

I wonder if the A's might have a similar vibe, going from an all-purpose concrete mess to a devoted baseball stadium.

I'm actually considering lawn seats for one of the games against the Orioles in June. In part because it looks like a nice setting.

msmambo.bsky.social•52 days ago

This better be the bunting you’re talking about.

redsoxhuskies.bsky.social•52 days ago

All Star Game and World Series are also acceptable.

fsu-engineer.bsky.social•52 days ago

I’ll allow a July 4 game

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

Sure that too or the postseason (the other times I have made this joke)

jellineck.bsky.social•51 days ago

It’s like you gave a “too slow!” down low to Bill James with this pun.

totallyfarked.bsky.social•52 days ago

ejmaron.bsky.social•52 days ago

You're saying you would balk at it any other time?

solana77.bsky.social•52 days ago

Trump take flyover

intothejunction.bsky.social•52 days ago

go birds (winged fish are birds)

a-peter-johnson.bsky.social•52 days ago

Was the drive easier coming from Tampa?

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

we rode our bikes

a-peter-johnson.bsky.social•52 days ago

Cool! I assume that wouldn't be possible in St. Pete?

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

when we lived there, yes, but when we lived there we walked, and it also wasn't... going to games in St. Pete were often like going to work.

cherylbyrne.bsky.social•52 days ago

Is it a nice park?

tafinucane.bsky.social•52 days ago

In fairness to the pilot, it's easy to miss a Single-A ballpark from 10K feet.

Jokes aside, the venue looks beautiful--a great place to catch a game. I suppose there will be a ton of rainouts in the summer, though.

shinydh.bsky.social•52 days ago

The scheduling has been tweaked a bit specificallt because of that threat - a couple of home-and-home series where the Rays were hosting second got switched, and now six of their first seven series (and 47 of their first 59 games!) are at home

crossowl.bsky.social•52 days ago

what is this ballpark?

greenjoel.bsky.social•52 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Steinbrenner_Field

davoinshowerhandel.bsky.social•52 days ago

Have you been there before today? Curious what, if any, upgrades have been made for regular season games

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

Been here many times, not sure about upgrades bc this was already above average MLB level amenities

specter177.bsky.social•52 days ago

Was it a flyover or is that stadium just on the landing path to MacDill?

thecleric.bsky.social•52 days ago

Let me guess they flew over RayJ out of habit?

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

no, they flew over TPA more or less

thecleric.bsky.social•52 days ago

That seems harder to do than what they should have done. Strange.

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

I assume it is *because* of TPA that they could not fly directly over us

thecleric.bsky.social•52 days ago

I’m definitely out of my depth here experience wise, but I don’t know why a flyover here is bad vs a RayJ flyover that they do all the time.

bubbaprog.lol•52 days ago

a lot closer to the airport, i guess. i dunno, it was weird. it was on TV, i see, but in the stadium it was real wei4rd. they showed it on the scoreboard but then everybody is like "where's the plane" and then we saw it far off in the distance after it had passed