When we last left off on the 2010 Baseball Odyssey Recap, we had stopped in Louisville for a long lunch with Jordan and a very quick run through the Louisville Bat Factory/Museum. We were then back on the road with our eyes on Pittsburgh. Zach was especially thrilled with this leg of the journey because Rick was nice enough to take the route that drove him right past the Cincinnati Reds ballpark just as a game was getting started.
Pittsburgh was our big "splurge" of the trip as we went to see a Pirates game at PNC Park. The bad news was that we arrived late (about 1 AM) and then I had to spend most of the morning working, which put a major dent in our hopes to tour the city. If there is another baseball odyssey to the east coast next year we have all agreed that we are going to stop in Pittsburgh again next year. Our only complaint or change is that we won't stay at the same hotel. I try to book hotels based on proximity to ballparks in hopes that we can walk or take public transportation. I specifically booked the Holiday Inn Express because they offered a shuttle to and from the game. We signed up to have the shuttle pick us up after the game and opted to take the river boat ride to the game. The only problem was no one at the hotel bothered to tell us that no matter what time the game ended, the shuttle stopped promptly at 10 PM. We exited the game over the Roberto Clemente bridge with the rest of the crowd at the end of what was a normal 9 inning game only to discover we were stranded 10 miles from our hotel. We ended up taking a taxi back to our hotel, which the boys thought was fun despite the fact that it wasn't the Cash Cab.
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| On the boat ride to the ballpark |
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| Getting off the boat |
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| Two punks a the ballpark |
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| JT picked the seats on the 3rd base line |
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