If you know me well, or even at all, you likely know I am not what would typically be classified as a sports nut. I don't have anything against spectator sports it's just I am more the type of guy who goes out and does exciting things rather than to sit and watch others do exciting things. One of the many great things about having kids is that they challenge everything you ever thought you knew about yourself. I am really enjoying going to spectator sports with my son. Soon he'll be playing them and I expect that will make them even better.

We have a new professional baseball team (The Blue Crabs) here in southern Maryland with a brand spanking new stadium just 10 minutes from my house.

Saturday I took my 5 year old son to his first "professional" baseball game. He loved it! I loved it! First off the scale of going to a local baseball game verses say a Washington Redskins game is huge! The Redskins game he and I went to last fall had 90,000 people in attendance! At the time I said a NFL game in a stadium is something everyone should do once, its a hell of a spectacle. In contrast the Blue Crab game last night had 5,000 in attendance! Much better on a human scale if you ask me. The stadium has seats for 4,200 with a grassy hill catering to families which several hundred more people can watch from. This is something I will do again. There were tons of things for kids, with attention spans shorter than an inning, to do. And the best part... At the end of every Saturday night home game, FIREWORKS! And they spared no expense on the fireworks either, these were the big boys worthy of any hometown 4th of July display I have ever seen short of those on the National Mall. Thats another spectacle that should be done once ;-)

I took, as always, a few photographs of the boy. There are a set of three images I took of him eating cotton candy that I am particularly fond of. I present them to you below, they are hyper linked to a proper viewing resolution (for your enjoyment).

As we were leaving my son looked up at me and said, thanks dad this was super fun!

You just can't beat that!

If you care to see more they are located in my spring 2008 family gallery.