Minor League Baseball Fun

(This is yet another old draft I never got around to posting...I wrote this the first week of internship)

So on Saturday night the new interns, our chiefs (who are funnily enough, the only 2 medicine residents prior to our arrival) and our program chief (and attending for the week) went out to the Lake County Captain's game. They're the Cleveland Indians farm team, and the University Hospital Health System (The"UHHS" in "UHHS Richmond Heights") has a box there and they let us have it for the night. It was so much fun!! I remember really not liking baseball games when I was younger, but they're, say, at least 10% less boring when you're watching them in person. And when you're surrounded by all kinds of new friends as well as free drinks, well, it just becomes a fun-a-palooza.

Our team lost when the other team hit a 3-run home run in the bottom of the ninth, but other than that, a good time was had by all. They cater the box, and then toward the end of the game, they come around with a - wait for it - DESSERT CART (!!!!) and coffee!! And it was serious dessert - pineapple and raspberry cheesecakes, all manner of snacks covered in chocolate, and the like. I could get used to this.

Here are all the medicine interns/residents with the Captains' mascot:

From left to right: Bryan (intern), Christine (resident), me, Natalie (intern), Ben (resident) and Kellie (the third-year transfer resident)

Ben is explaining to Natalie how to convincingly explain "I promise, I never got that page," to the nurses to get out of dumb calls. Just kidding, of course we'd never do that!

A pretty picture of the scoreboard at sunset:

The view from our box: