Baseball-Related Program Activities

If it's Saturday, it must be minor league baseball. Sorry, Golden Baseball League, but Jason and I drove to Rancho Cucamonga for a California League game: the Quakes versus the Lancaster Jethawks.

The Quakes' ballpark is called The Epicenter, and it's the home of the happy aisles...



No, seriously, here's the view from my seat...



The Epicenter is new enough to have a fancy-schmancy scoreboard...



And another scoreboard with the team name in lights...



There's a mall nearby -- featuring JCPenney, Robinsons-May, and an Apple store -- that Jason swears was not even under construction yet the last time he was here for a game...



Before the game, these folks threw junk to the crowd...



No, seriously, they hopped off the truck onto the dugout roofs and started dancing. Then there were some cheerleader types who also danced...



Later, Jason asked if I noticed that the cheerleaders seemed unusually voluptuous, albeit not with those exact words. Anyway, Tremor the mascot bothered the umpires for a while...



Then he was joined by the other mascot, Aftershock, and if I recall correctly, they did some dancing...



And then some Cub Scouts danced -- no, I mean they tried to keep the flag off the ground during a solo saxophone performance of the National Anthem...



Jason alertly pointed out that you don't often see minor-league players with their names on the backs of their uniforms. Since the Quakes are affiliated with the Angels, it's entirely possible that they're doing this solely to embarrass the Dodgers ("Ha ha, even our Class A team uniforms have names on the back").



A conference on the mound about the mound...



Which led to the landscapers performing emergency mound surgery...



The final line...



And after the game it was time for fireworks...



Yes, everyone loves fireworks...



For Levi, we've saved the best two pictures for last. Waukegan isn't the only place where there's a statue of Jack Benny (although unlike in Waukegan, here in Rancho Cucamonga, the statue is not located in the public way; instead, it's just inside the main stadium entrance gate)...



And, in fact, Rancho Cucamonga has done Waukegan one better. This is the street the stadium is located on...



So now that I've been to baseball games in both Anaheim and Cucamonga, Jason, does Azusa Pacific University have a baseball team?

Labels: game report, jason kaifesh, lancaster jethawks, rancho cucamonga quakes