Buy me some pinot and caviar
Business has been good, it seems, in the Integrated Security and Threat Management field.
My dad had gotten Nationals baseball tickets from work before (see September 21, 2005 post), so it's pretty much what I was expecting again. Fair seats, but free, so who can complain?
Turns out the Company Seats are a in the primo club-level section 20 rows up from the field, with an inclusive $25 all-you-can-eat buffet available in the restaurant behind the seats, unless you just want to have your standard fare (dogs, beer, fries, nachos, hummus) delivered to your seat. This implies that the buffet was non-standard fare, and that implication is correct. Broiled angus brisket. Moroccan baked chicken with curry rice. Six kinds of cheeses along with four italian meats, fancy flatbreads, barbecue chicken, fried plantains in some sorta sauce, seafood paella, two kinds of sausages, and don't even get me started about the dessert table.
I commented that this was the reason why the stadium looks empty on TV half the time -- everyone's inside eating brownies.
The game was a bit of a snooze-fest, with sporadic rain turning to a deluge in the bottom of the 9th inning that ended up delaying the game over two hours, when the Nationals tied it up at 2 a piece...then lost in the 12th.
Or so I learned the next morning, as we were not any of the 37 people who stuck around past midnight.
Still, I've never been so pampered at a ball game, so now I'm trying to have my Dad re-think this whole 'retirement' deal. Until we at least find out what his company's Redskins seats look like.
My dad had gotten Nationals baseball tickets from work before (see September 21, 2005 post), so it's pretty much what I was expecting again. Fair seats, but free, so who can complain?
Turns out the Company Seats are a in the primo club-level section 20 rows up from the field, with an inclusive $25 all-you-can-eat buffet available in the restaurant behind the seats, unless you just want to have your standard fare (dogs, beer, fries, nachos, hummus) delivered to your seat. This implies that the buffet was non-standard fare, and that implication is correct. Broiled angus brisket. Moroccan baked chicken with curry rice. Six kinds of cheeses along with four italian meats, fancy flatbreads, barbecue chicken, fried plantains in some sorta sauce, seafood paella, two kinds of sausages, and don't even get me started about the dessert table.
I commented that this was the reason why the stadium looks empty on TV half the time -- everyone's inside eating brownies.
The game was a bit of a snooze-fest, with sporadic rain turning to a deluge in the bottom of the 9th inning that ended up delaying the game over two hours, when the Nationals tied it up at 2 a piece...then lost in the 12th.
Or so I learned the next morning, as we were not any of the 37 people who stuck around past midnight.
Still, I've never been so pampered at a ball game, so now I'm trying to have my Dad re-think this whole 'retirement' deal. Until we at least find out what his company's Redskins seats look like.
posted by Dan at 8:17 PM
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