I see you also got some sports shots. How did you like doing those?Tosspot wrote: As of now I have a couple of pics from last night up on the front page of my photo site...
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I did! New point and shoot, it has some pretty good special modes. Needless to say, that was in "Fireworks" mode.schugg wrote: new camera pumpkin? nice shots !
Hah - yep, first Royals game I've been to in ages. Totally agree we need less of the silly boosterism - let's worry about substance instead of style. Not a bad night though really.GRID wrote: That's a great shot toss, I agree with your comments.
First off, YOU WENT TO A ROYALS GAME??? haha.
Second, they overdid the video. I think they need to make it less like a documentary and just do some quick skyline shots, show the top attractions museums etc. But you are right, it was bit too much "spoon feeding" that KC is an ok town.
The only problem I see is that this town needs to be spoon fed on what it offers. This town's inferiority complex is bad, real bad, so if we can use events like this to show off KC a bit to the locals so be it.
But I would bet most of the active and Kansas Citians that are not ashamed to call themselves Kansas Citians were at that ballpark last night. I mean, I make it to every single event like this if at all possible, I'm always there, be it a major sporting event, a major festival etc. I think there is a core of about 50k in KC that also do this and most were all the ball park. That's my guess anyway.
I also agree it wasn't the "best" show I have ever seen, but the best show I have seen in KC by far. I expected more, but was not disappointed at all.
Next year, they need to shorten the slow paced pep talk about KC and do more cool graphics etc like what they do before a Royals or Brigade game and keep the dead time between the fireworks to a minimum.
We will be there next year. It was a lot of fun.
Sports shots are great fun ... anything that's an excuse to actuate the shutter is fun, really.AllThingsKC wrote: I see you also got some sports shots. How did you like doing those?
And your fireworks photos are medicore. (Just kidding, they're fabulous as always)
Seriously? I wish my camera had a fireworks mode. If it does I'm unaware of it.PumpkinStalker wrote: I did! New point and shoot, it has some pretty good special modes. Needless to say, that was in "Fireworks" mode.
Royals Express is definitely the way to go. Last night for some hare-brained reason I took the car to Kauffman. Ugh.cknab1 wrote: That was a lot of fun at the game last night. First game I went to this year but not the last. I was really surpried at how fast the game sold out once people decided to go. Wednesday afternoon I could get most any ticket I wanted but by Thursday we were up in the rafters for a group of 6. We took the Royals express from Crown Center and it worked out great. Standing room on the way out but plenty of room coming back. I think they added another bus. Great fun seeing some many people having such a good time.
Hey, I'm on the same page re: the Cards being over-rated due to leagues. But still, I bet we'd finish behind them if we shared a division. They have a better team IMO. And most of this decade, it was 25 games better.phuqueue wrote: Why? They've got a much better record and may even make the playoffs, but it seems pretty clear that they're doing it against inferior competition. They've had a better run the past few years, but against consistently inferior competition (the Royals are 33-27 against the NL the past four years, 182-314 against the AL; since 2005, the AL is 292-213 in interleague play). Given all that, I would probably put less stock in the Cardinals' winning more games overall than I would in the head-to-head matchup, especially if the Royals end up winning the series in KC too to go 5-1 or even 6-0 against the Cards. The Cardinals have the more illustrious history, no question, but the "better" team is not static, and in any given year when the Royals can take four or more games of a six game series, it seems reasonable to acknowledge them as the better team that year, just as the Cardinals are undoubtedly the better team when they take the season series. I guess the obvious counterargument is that six games is a pretty small sample size,
Milwaukee has discussed coming back. KC needs to move to the NL and move now - no matter what KCMax says about the leagues being the same.but the 60 games the Royals have against the NL and the more than 500 games the AL has against the NL are not small sample sizes and clearly bear out that the NL hasn't been as strong as the AL for the past several seasons (not that I have to explain that to you -- you're the number one cheerleader for traveling back in time to 1997 and changing leagues).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Le ... aseball%29The Kansas City Blues baseball team of the Western League played three seasons in Kansas City from 1898-1900. As the team's manager, Jim Manning, and a number of players from its 1900 roster played in Washington, D.C. in the 1901 season, it is generally believed that the franchise was transferred to Washington and became the Washington Senators (first team) in 1901 when the Western League became the American League and declared itself a Major League. However, the history of the beginning of the American League is unclear and the Blues may have simply been folded to make room for the Senators. In any event, the Senators later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and became the Minnesota Twins in 1961.
ARe you buying any - or are you waiting until they become a winner?KCPowercat wrote: lower season ticket base...that's the reason for 12k instead of 15k on a weeknight against a boring opponent.
