Weather permitting, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals will celebrate their opening day at Arvest Ballpark in Springdale. The Naturals are scheduled to play host to the equally non-menacingly name San Antonio Missions at 6:00pm.
To be fair, the actual opening day for the Naturals’ inaugural season was last week (April 3) in San Antonio, but tonight will mark the first game at the brand new 7500-seat stadium.
The Naturals are a Class AA affiliate of the Kansas City Royals and as long as the field has been underneath tarps for the last 24 hours (fingers crossed), the team’s brand new jerseys might not immediately turn dookie brown from the mud that the rest of us have been trodding around in all day.
A 4pm Ribbon Cutting Ceremony scheduled for this afternoon with a special debut of the new mascot, Strike, who is a sasquatch in baseball players’ clothing. Such a fitting mascot the sasquatch is. You know, because of all the bigfoots in Springdale.
If you don’t already have tickets, you can pick them up at the Naturals’ website for individual games or as season passes/mini packs.
As far as we know (and much to The Rev. Ronnie Floyd’s dismay), beer will be sold at the ballpark.
Hell. Yes. (Sorry, Ronny)
April 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Baseball! Beer! Sasquatch?!?
I’ve got tix for Sunday. Looking forward to it.
Anyone else have tickets for this weekend?
April 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
From the face up, the Natural’s mascot looks like a homeless bum. If I had my way they would be the Springdale Homeless Bums, instead of the Naturals.
Anyone know if they’ll be serving on Sundays?
April 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
No tix yet, but I’m definitely, definitely considering buying some ASAP.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Jones, if they’re not selling on Sunday, I’m going to have a real problem with that place.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I am also planning on going Sunday. If they don’t have beer I’m going to hit Strike the Sassquatch in his cock!
April 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I’m going tonight!!! Hell yeah.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Hell yeah, chris-os. Let us know how it was tomorrow. If you would, can you find out if they’re serving beer on Sunday? Seriously.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I went to the game tonight. Doesn’t compare to the diamond hogs, but it was alright. Thirsty Thursdays, $1 beers, kinda sucked cuz the beer dude was rushed immediately…oh well, good time regardless.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Beer dude? You mean there weren’t beer dudes? As in many, many of them? Wow. Now I see why they called it Thirsty Thursdays.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Well there were certain ones, sorry…But the thirsty thursday remark seemed very true. They DID have the plastic Miller Light bottles with screw on caps for $5! I was going to spend 50 or 60 bones and get saucy
April 10th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
That mascot looks like he belongs at a jam band show. I can’t wait to see him wave his arms above his head.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Save your cash. Give your money to the Diamond Hogs. Those kids need the support more considering many of them are on scholarships that barely pay for even a couple of their textbooks.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Is Cody Clark playing for the Naturals now?
April 11th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Strike looks like R. Crumb’s Mr. Natural to me. Sprindale’s hippy population is now 1.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Sasquatch? This is Arkansas - that, my friends, means he is a Faulke Monster.
They should have called the team the Big Naturals.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am
R. Crumb’s Mr.Natural would have been perfect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Natural_(comics)
but he should have lost the robe,and instead his beard would cover his junk.
Name should have been changed to Mr. Au Natural’
April 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
NO BEER ON SUNDAYS!!!!!
Just back from the game (I left in the 5th because it was brutally cold and I was sober) and I have confirmation – No BEER ON SUNDAYS
LAME!!!!!
WTF!?!