Baltimore: lazymeatball style (long with Pics)

[Lazy Meatball]

(baseball, beer, seafood, voyeurism, strip clubs, complaining, and public urination)

Day 1

This past weekend I went to Baltimore to see the Red Sox play the Orioles with my friend Phil who I previously went to NYC with We left my house in central MA around 8am in the WRX and made it to the parking lot outside Camden Yards around 3:30pm and drank a couple beers in the parking lot, bought some pistachios and headed into Oriole Park.

We got some beers and decided section 344 involved way too many stairs so we managed to scoop up some seats on the left field line under the first deck. Not much hi jinx occurred here as we were surrounded by families and old people filling out score cards and such, but it was a good place to watch the game from and Beckett pitched well. Manny and Ortiz did alright too.
Ortiz
Manny
Youkilis
In the bathroom one man commented on me “Now there’s a real man, drinkin a beer while he’s takin a piss.”

Around the 7th or 8th inning we returned to our stolen seats after buying more beer and some dude was sitting in them. Phil asked him what he was doing there and he claimed they were his seats. Phil told him BS and asked him where he had been the whole game. The dude claimed he was with friends somewhere else and then asked us if we wanted to get an usher over this. Phil asked to see his tickets, and they actually were his seats, but after some more arguing we convinced him to leave. The old people behind us backed us up too, as we had been there the whole game.

After the game we wandered into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor district to find diner. We found the M & S Grill (pic) which was right on the brick promenade next to the harbor and sat down right away at one of the outdoor tables.
. After about ten minutes a waitress came over and told us we had to be on the list on the list, turns out there was a two hour wait. Phil replied that we would make it worth her while and she brought us menus and beers. We started off with some delicious crab cakes with big chunks of crab meat and hardly any filler. After that we moved onto raw oysters which were probably unnecessary after the crab cakes.


For the main course we got steaks which were certainly very good, but did not rank up on the top of my list of best steaks.Skirt steak w/ cheese crumble Phil still felt the need for dessert after all this so we perused the desert tray and we shared the ice cream cookie sandwich.

. It was two large soft yet crumbly chocolate chip cookies with some sort of toffee in them served with vanilla ice cream and some sort of fudge sauce, excellent. It had been a long day so we walked back to our car and drove to our hotel by the airport, had a couple beers and went to bed.