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It's a good year to visit Miller Park. The team is enthused and ready to roll. And they have a ballpark worth visiting, no matter who is playing. It's
a new ballpark, and there's no great
views but they do have a retractable roof which they close and reopen at the end of the game if it was open, while
playing 2001 Space Odyssey and other profound music. Its architecture is reminiscent of a Calder sculpture.
Plus there's the renown sausage races. Before the game there is an excellent animated video of Bernie the Brewer (the mascot) getting into a spaceship
baseball
to arrive at the game, and when it does in the film, the "real" Bernie appears at his watchplace in the ballpark and
slides down, ready to play the game. In addition to Take me out to the Ballgame they also sing Roll out
the Barrel. Above Bernie's Dug-out are neon words adjacent to what looks like a
ball being hit out of the park by a bat:
Get Up
Get Up
Get Out of Here
GONE!!!
Which are the words of play-by-play announcer, Bob Euchrin.
You can change seats easily in this park, for example, leaving a spot in the
hot sun and moving to the shade. Concourses were wide, you could get a microbrew, poured from a bottle into a cup.
Paid parking is plentiful all over; it didn't take me long to get out of the lot.
