Last night the Oakland A’s held their annual Tweet Up. Naturally I was there. Damn you Twitter for sucking me in and making me co-dependent on you.
It was a lot of fun, Sean Doolittle and Jerry Blevins came to talk with us all first. Those guys, aside from being amazing pitchers, are funny as all hell. We were cracking up at their answers to the fan submitted questions. Plus, somebody suggested making Doolittling a thing, like Tebowing and Kapernicking. If you have ever seen Doolittle pitch, you know exactly what I’m talking about. He pulls his glove hand into his neck, almost like he’s playing the violin with his elbow out. Naturally, we all jumped on board and are trying to make it a thing. We were then joined by some members of the A’s media and got their take on how Twitter has changed their jobs. It’s amazing what Twitter has done for the world of sports, it’s truly the best way to get information out to your fans right now.
If you bought tickets to the Tweet Up, or the #GreenCollarSocial, as it was also called, you got tickets to the game as well. You know, I would never miss this. Twitter event with players and tickets to the game, that’s like a home run of events right there. The A’s were giving away prizes during the Tweet Up for answers to A’s trivia. Being me, I didn’t win anything. If bad luck were a sport, I’d be the champion. They continued giving stuff away during the game if you were checking their Twitter feed. The first contest was to tweet a picture of the field from your seat. I tweeted mine out, finished eating, and went to meet up with my friends that were sitting out in Sec 149. As I got out there, my phone goes off. Not only did the A’s start following me on Twitter (yes, I’m beyond stoked about that), but I won the contest for my seat and I needed to provide them my seat location so they could deliver my prize. I raced back to my seat and within minutes, the A’s delivered my prize- a Scott Hatteberg bobble head from last season. I was so excited that I didn’t care I already had one. I returned to 149 and finally met up with the cool kids. Ben, the cool dude from the MLB Fan Cave last year, was in town for the series so I asked if he had the bobble head, in which he responded he’d been trying to find one and really wanted one. Ta-Da! I pulled in out and gave it to him. It’s always nice to make other people smile.
This was my first time ever sitting in the bleachers and it was so much fun. I was trying not to let them all down with their extreme fandom. I even Raged with them. I have never raged ever. I tried it once and I got funny looks because I was the only person doing it, other than the Right Field crew. I will definitely have to make it back out there for another game this season. Top notch group of people out there. True fans.
Even better was that the A’s won the game. Tommy Milone was more than shaky to start the game, like 60+ pitches in 2 innings shaky, but settled down. He allowed up one run in 6 innings of work. The bullpen did their thing, including Doolittle, who threw a perfect inning while we all were Dolittling it up in RF. For the second night in a row, the A’s came back from behind to take the late lead. This is what we have been looking for lately. They’re a comeback team, down but never out. Today they won again, completing the sweep of the Kansas City Royals and are now winners of three straight! So excited.
Since I was at a Tweet Up and have rambled on about Twitter, my handle is @_kimms_ so check me out! I post a lot of baseball stuff and a ton of Athletics stuff. Plus I’m funny. Hope you all had a great weekend too!
View from my first seat of the night
My fancy Tweet Up shirt. Jealousy is to be expected
Sean Doolittle and Jerry Blevins during the Q&A session
From the A’s Twitter page: the crowd Doolittling. You can see part of my head in the photo
Out of Left Field 