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| - Baseball fans, this stadium should be on your must see list. It's an unbelievably awesome baseball park with some first rate baseball fans. I was excited to see this stadium from the top of Mt. Washington the day before and as we approached the stadium the next day I got even more pumped up. Parking was a breeze, I pulled into a private lot one block away and the owner gave me his employee parking space. There is minimal traffic and plenty of parking lots.
Although it was a wet and pretty dreary day, I happily sat right near the dug out ($30 tickets!!) in my poncho and admired the Pittsburgh skyline and bridges across the way. The stadium really speaks to the character of the city.
In addition to some really cheap tickets, they have some great craft beers on tap at various vendors. I highly recommend visiting them rather than getting an Iron City beer (which possibly worse than Natty Light).
Because of the rain, I did wear my protective lucky Red Sox hat,and usually this means a great deal of heckling at other stadiums so I was a little on guard. Apparently, when people here should "Hey Boston" at me, they actually come up and talk about how much they like Fenway and Red Sox fans. Now at Yankees and sometimes Camden stadium, the outcome is a little different. I spent most of the game comisserating with the Pirates fans. Hey, I live in DC we have a sucky team too.
For entertainment they and racing pierogies and a screen you can send text messages to (text "BUCCO"). The text messaging board taught me alot about Pittsburgh culture. Apparently in Pittsburgh, women are the one who propose to their men and ask them out to homecoming. So if you're into aggressive women, go to the burgh. I also learned how to use "yinz" in a sentence.
As Dana Z stated, they also love them some fireworks in Pittsburgh. After Derek Lee (wooo hoo Cubs and Padres), hit a home run, off went the fireworks, and at the end of the game again some more fireworks.
Probably one of the better baseball experiences of my life.
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