Boozing With Deadspin

Sports for millenia has brought diverse people together in fellowship. This fact was especially true at last Friday's Deadspin Pants Party at Turner Field. There is nothing like baseball, beer, and barbeque to start the weekend right. It was also kinda cool to meet the man who introduced me to "Herpes #7".

Like every young professional I know in Atlanta, as well as many of the local PP attendees, I rarely actually put out my hard-earned money to see the Braves at home. Whether it was due to access to my company's tickets, or a connection to someone with corporate seats or boxes; the typical expenses for Braves games was gas and beer. So shelling out $60 for a previously free good was daunting - that is until you considered the all you can drink and eat special. The Atlanta Braves organization really came up with a winner with this idea... No less than half the locals I spoke to claimed that they typically don't pay for seats, but made an exception for unlimited booze.

Since this was my first time paying to be on the Lexus level, and my first time at an internet organized sport blogger/commenter event, I decided to take some pictures.






Even though Atlanta is the home of Lil' Jon, flash, and crunk, it was still surprisingly hilarious to find that the entrance to the box seats and all you can drink was on the Lexus level.






I was the guinea pig for my friends for this special; they assumed the free food might be crap. Far from it, the barbeque pork and wings were very tasty, and were kept that way by a couple of awesome ladies.





Meeting Will Leitch for the first time was pretty cool, especially since he was the only face I recognized besides UkraineNotWeak who sold me my ticket. For a snarky and hilarious sports writer, he exudes a refreshing Midwestern charm.

Along with Will, everyone was quite friendly and interesting - from the man behind Every Day Should Be Saturday with his flaming couch shirt, to the lovely lady known as DieEliDie - who still felt the need to explain the reference given that most who frequent the sports blogosphere (like everyone at this party) know both the lesser Manning and every major Simpsons meme by heart.




Speaking of lovely ladies - as the night wore on, I happy noted that for a gathering of sports blog writers and commentors - the male/female ratio wasn't bad. I wasn't counting on that, but its a nice detail to mention when my non Deadspin-saavy friends ask what I did Friday night. I can't wait for the next one.

The only unfortunate thing was that the booze and barbeque free for all ends during the seventh inning. Which is normally ok, except when D-Backs pitcher Brandon Webb is marching towards breaking Orel Hershiser's 59 straight scoreless inning record. Thanks Webb, I could only get down seven beers, two pork sandwiches, and a hot dog before the end of the gravy train thanks to you. Jerk.