Keyspan Park
17 August 2008, 1700
Every year the owners and managers of my home away from home, Stout, get together and plan a couple day trips for the staff. This past Sunday was the Coney Island trip. Picture a bus load of bartenders, waitresses, kitchen guys, busboys and runners surrounded by coolers of beer heading out to spend a day at Astroland and go see a Brooklyn Cyclones game. Yeah, I don't remember much of the day either. We started at 2pm with a quick snack and a few rounds at our sister restaurant Fat Annie's Truck Stop and then boarded the heavily stocked bus to Brooklyn. Once we had arrived at Astroland there were more drinks, lots of sun, a few rides on the Cyclone, a few more drinks, a handful of turns playing Shoot the Freak, and a few more drinks. The game started at 5pm. At 5pm, we were in a bar next to Keyspan Park having a few more drinks and singing karaoke. Finally, a little before 6pm, the whole lot of us crawled over to the stadium for a few innings of baseball and a few more drinks. I can't even tell you who was playing, who won the game or what inning it was when we left, but I can tell you that Relish won the Ketchup, Mustard, Relish mascot race during the 5th...well, maybe it was the 5th. Anyway, Ketchup probably would have had him, but some crazed fan (stop staring at me) tackled Ketchup midway through the race. Go Relish!
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