Eastside Member Username: Eastside
Post Number: 893 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.42.174.187
| Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 3:48 am: | |
Friday night...you going? |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 4472 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 198.111.165.50
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 5:35 pm: | |
BUMP!!! |
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22
Post Number: 270 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.14.101.116
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 5:36 pm: | |
I'm going Sunday. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 316 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 209.220.229.254
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 5:48 pm: | |
Sat. |
Tigers2005 Member Username: Tigers2005
Post Number: 98 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 68.61.252.136
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 6:26 pm: | |
I'd love to get to that stadium. I've heard that it may be the best of all of the new stadiums. Not this year, though. However, I will probably make the road trip to Cleveland for the Tuesday night/Wednesday afternoon games at the end of July |
7milekid Member Username: 7milekid
Post Number: 106 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.61.161.193
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 8:06 pm: | |
If i can find a ride and a ticket, then im going |
Jelk
Member Username: Jelk
Post Number: 3836 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.208.233.74
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 8:35 pm: | |
Went to Pitt last year. Great, great town and a nice ballpark. I rate it ahead of Comerica Park but behind Jacobs Field and Camden Yards among the new parks I've been too. You will have a good time in Pittsburgh if you are going, it is a really nice town. I'm tempted to go down Saturday but I don't think I can swing it. I do plan to be in Cleveland for Tigers-Indians series at the end of July. It'll be my second trip of the season to see the Tigers at the Jake. Even when the Tigers were a 100 loss team, I tried to see them play at Jacobs Field once a season. I like the park that much. |
7milekid Member Username: 7milekid
Post Number: 107 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.61.161.193
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 8:54 pm: | |
you think i could hitchike all the way to pittsburgh? |
Thecarl
Member Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 836 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 9:48 pm: | |
dangit! i'm not going, but i love pittsburgh! here's a tip: stay at the riverfront sheraton...take the incline up to mount washington. great little party places up there, and wonderful people. (in fact, you may meet some sports celebs at the laid-back joints atop the incline - hint!) also...have a primanti brothers' sandwich...but only after 1 a.m. (like a lafayette coney.) one can't say they've experienced pittsburgh unless they've been to primantis! and...notice the near non-existance of litter downtown. i'm especially thankful that mr. penske is taking the initiative in the motor city. it makes a huge difference. people throw wrappers down where people see wrappers. people find trash cans for their wrappers when the streets are clean. it's a nice synergy. oh - and don't forget to hit station square! the grand concourse is an awesome train depot converted into a muer-owned restaurant, and if classic architecture and swanky dining is not your style - there's a hooters right nearby ("delightfully tacky.") |
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 1808 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 68.248.0.1
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 11:26 pm: | |
I really like Pittsburgh and seeing a game in that stadium is a priority for me. This would be the perfect opportunity but shit I'm too busy. Go Tigers and have fun all who are going! btw Thecarl says it right. I'll add that you all should check out the University of Pittsburgh area in the Oakland borough of town to see what a vibrant, codified, mass-transit infused midtown/cultural center look like. |
Thecarl
Member Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 838 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175
| Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 11:46 pm: | |
p.s. the "incline" is a trolley that goes near-vertically, on tracks, up the mountain overlooking the city... http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/ transit/images/Pittsburgh/Incl ines/Mon/UpperView.jpg http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/ transit/Pittsburgh/Inclines/ i'd be there if it weren't for my five-month-old bundle of joy!!! just kidding, we'll have our family trip there soon enough! |
Eastside Member Username: Eastside
Post Number: 895 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.42.174.187
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 9:27 am: | |
I'm stopping for the game on my way to NYC. |
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 1631 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 208.44.117.10
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 9:30 am: | |
quote:Jelk said: I like the park that much.
Wow! Jelk actually likes something. Of course it is in Cleveland...but it is a start. |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 6087 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 10:03 am: | |
Hey, easy. Jelk likes Jelk, far as I can tell. |
Babycombo Member Username: Babycombo
Post Number: 87 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 12.5.1.207
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 10:28 am: | |
I'm driving up from Virginia to see my hometown boys. See you on Saturday and Sunday. |
Harmonie Member Username: Harmonie
Post Number: 591 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 198.109.32.15
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 11:36 am: | |
If you want a solid average folk, corner bar in Pittsburgh go to Mitchell's. Great food and cheap beer! It's right downtown (one of the only bars down there) and they are friendly and real. 304 Ross Street Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (412) 471-3663 |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 320 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 209.220.229.254
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 1:46 pm: | |
There's a couple outdoor cafes on Market Square or something like that, which is then just a straight walk up 6th St to the park. |
Jelk
Member Username: Jelk
Post Number: 3837 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.40.111.105
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 2:40 pm: | |
Jelk likes Jacobs Field and the Browns but as a city Jelk prefers Pittsburgh to Cleveland. Jelk also likes talking about Jelk's likes and dislikes in the third person. |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6244 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125
| Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 2:47 pm: | |
Jelk Eastsider |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10261 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.37.236
| Posted on Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:31 am: | |
Jelk Westsider |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 526 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 9:05 am: | |
Jelk Midtowner |
Kilgore_south Member Username: Kilgore_south
Post Number: 111 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 69.95.74.204
| Posted on Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 12:07 am: | |
A buddy of mine was there Friday with his wife. If you saw Rod Allen today mention a Tigers fan that got his attention on the street after the game last night, that was him. |
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus
Post Number: 3 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 68.62.6.138
| Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 3:36 pm: | |
I was there Sunday! Great game...little too close for comfort towards the end though... There was also a bit of a bonus if you were at the Sunday game...PNC stadium got overflown by a Stealth Fighter twice during the 7th inning...must have been an airshow in the area somewhere...very cool to see (Message edited by thejesus on July 03, 2006) |
Jelk
Member Username: Jelk
Post Number: 3843 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.40.111.105
| Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 5:41 pm: | |
Jelk would join no club that would have him as a member. |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10280 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.37.236
| Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 6:56 pm: | |
Go ahead, do the whole "Son, we live in a world....." and get it over with. |
Jelk
Member Username: Jelk
Post Number: 3844 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.40.111.105
| Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 7:39 pm: | |
I'm not sure why I would do that line on this thread? You'd have to be pretty stupid to try to make the Few Good Men routine work on this thread. |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 10282 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.37.236
| Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 8:08 pm: | |
quote:You'd have to be pretty stupid to try to make the Few Good Men routine work on this thread.
Never stopped you before. |
Umstucoach Member Username: Umstucoach
Post Number: 45 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 12:47 am: | |
Great time in Pittsburgh...Sat 8 rows from the field at the end of the tarp along the 3b side on Friday (not bad for buying them online). Talk w/ some Pirate season ticket holders sitting next to me. We started talking football (naturally Millen came up "How does he still have a job?") he said that their #1 draft pick (Santonio Holmes) was getting into trouble. I told him that what you get for drafting a Buckeye. He got a good laugh. They tried to get me to talk to this cute blond sitting a couple rows ahead of us wearing a Pudge Rodriguez shirt. I didn't, but I should have. She was alone. (D'OH!!) Took a beer tour of Pennsylvania with Rolling Rock, Yungling, and Iron City Beer. All good, but I like Rolling Rock the best. PNC seems A LOT like Comerica, yet the archetects and designers were not preoccupied with having the widest concourses known to man which makes PNC all the better. Foul balls actually go into the upper deck (They don't do that at Comerica, and at Tiger Stadium, they would sometimes go on or over the roof behind home plate, but I digress...). After the game some Pirate fans (or Bucco fans as they are called in Pittsburgh) started badmouthing the Lions. I had to laugh, I mean, it's like trying to put down Chicago fans because of the Cubs. They've been so bad for so long, you can't get angry at their ineptitude, you just gotta laugh. All and all, a good time. At least it was better than Saturday. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 322 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 24.192.25.47
| Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 1:06 pm: | |
There was a lot of trash talking going on while walking back over the bridge after the loss on Saturday. It was all good-natured (I think) but I was just thinking "win or lose, we're still in first. Win or lose, you're still in last." One street musician yelled "How good can they be, they lost to the Pirates!" I suppose he had a point. LOL |