Back to baseball.......back to normal, life comes full-circle

October 04, 2006 by lynnell

by Lynnell Mickelsen

My generous brother-in-law gave me four free tickets to the first play-off game yesterday, so I grabbed my teenage sons from school and headed to the downtown Minneapolis to the Metrodome for the noon game.

I love baseball. I grew up going to Twins games with my dad, a professor of ancient languages at Bethel Seminary and hard-core baseball nerd who always carried his battered old mitt (circa. 1934); a spiral notebook in which he meticulously scored each game, including pitches and a Greek New Testament, in case there was a lull in the action and he needed to explicate the Apostle Paul's second letter to the Corinthians or some other hermeneutical emergency, I swear I'm not making this up.

So going to baseball games always feels sort of timeless to me. My dad passed away years ago, having never caught a fly ball at a game, despite faithfully bringing his mitt for over 50 years. So knowing the odds, I now skip the mitt. But I still bring a notebook to score the game (because like him, I'm too cheap to buy a scorecard), plus the page from the Strib with the players' stats for both teams. My teenage boys roll their eyes at my baseball nerdiness and I have this wonderful sense of life coming full-circle.

Some years I follow the Twins closely and go to a lot of games, but this year, the Twins had a terrible start and I was overseas for much of the summer. So this was my first game of the season and I'm happy to report two other instances of life coming full circle.

1) I could finally, once again, bring a backpack into the Metrodome, something that has been restricted, on and off, since Sept. 11th, 2001.

2) During the seventh inning stretch, we finally didn't have to sing Les Greenwood's godawful, jingoistic "I'm Proud to Be An America," complete with the jumbo screen showing us a billowing American flag and the Twin Mascot In the Bear Suit proudly saluting.

The Greenwood song was a post 9-11 sports ritual that always struck me as Nuremberg Rally Meets Branson, MO. I can't tell you how glad I am that it's gone.

On the down side, the jumbo screen still led us in a rousing group sing of "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. I mean, what is it about professional baseball that brings out the worst songs in people? Seriously. I'm asking. The Macarena. Kokomo. YMCA. Get Down Tonight. Eye of the Tiger. And much more.

Oh well. Backpacks are now in. Greenwood is out. We're slowly reclaiming the country again.

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Last time I checked, singing at the ball park was an individual choice. I know that I would much rather sing/listen to "God Bless America" than be required to sing/listen to "Hail to the Chief."
God bless our soldiers who allow us the freedom to make this choice.

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