{"id":1007,"date":"2012-05-09T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2012-05-13T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T14:39:31","slug":"florida-discoveries-23-pensacola-blue-wahoos-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/05\/florida-discoveries-23-pensacola-blue-wahoos-baseball.html","title":{"rendered":"Florida Discoveries 23: Pensacola Blue Wahoos Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pensacola went without a minor league baseball team for a season while this ballpark was under construction. This the Blue Wahoos' inaugural season.<\/p><\/div>\n

After a day of the boys playing baseball, we headed out to downtown Pensacola for an evening with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos<\/a> — the city’s brand new AA Minor League baseball team. They had a team called the Pelicans until 2010, but for summer 2011, there was no professional baseball in the area. We’re excited to have a team to watch locally now.<\/p>\n

About a month ago, the local Boy Scout Council announced that May 5th was “Scout Night” with the Blue Wahoos<\/a>. Unfortunately, the first two months of games was were nearly sold out and even within an hour of receiving the announcement about Scout Night, I couldn’t get 4 tickets together for the family. So I went ahead and got two sets of two tickets.<\/p>\n

There was a Scout parade at 6pm but we didn’t get to the park in time. Instead, we chose to stop for dinner.<\/p>\n

The park isn’t that big, it seats 5,000 people, so there weren’t really poor seats anywhere. We were at the very end of the first base line…which still gave us a good view of the game itself, but we could barely see the scoreboard. Jacob, our statistics boy, was trying to track the speeds of the pitches.<\/p>\n

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Timmy is in some sort of "Look at me, I'm cute!" pose phase.<\/p><\/div>\n

After the game, there was a great fireworks show. This is where our far-away seats really paid off — we had a great view of the fireworks, and the smoke flows AWAY from us towards those sitting on the third base line, ha ha!<\/p>\n

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Navy Federal sponsored the fireworks. They didn't let us forget that. Their name is all over the ball park, too \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

Like we did in Omaha<\/a>, the Scouts had a chance to camp at the Blue Wahoos ballpark after the game and fireworks. We chose not to camp — we did it before and we are asked to leave VERY early the following morning. I recommend everyone experience the ballpark camping — even if just ONCE.<\/p>\n

In both instances, the park played a movie on the scoreboard TV screen before bed, so bedtime for these boys would have been well after midnight. We left at 10pm and they still hadn’t started the movie. I took a picture of the tents on the field just before we left.<\/p>\n

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Tents on the field at Blue Wahoos park.<\/p><\/div>\n

I found this picture from when we camped in 2010 at the (now closed) Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha:<\/p>\n

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Cock-a-doodle-doo! This is what the sky looked like when an announcement came on for us to wake up, pack our stuff, and clear the field. This is from July 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n

As we were leaving the park, we found Kazoo, the Blue Wahoo’s mascot. He was very patient as I fiddled with my camera to get a nice nighttime picture:<\/p>\n

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Kazoo is the Pensacola Blue Wahoos Mascot.<\/p><\/div>\n

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And Timmy took a nice picture of me. Thanks Timmy!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a day of the boys playing baseball, we headed out to downtown Pensacola for an evening with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos — the city’s brand new AA Minor League baseball team. They had a team called the Pelicans until 2010, but for summer 2011, there was no professional baseball in the area. 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