Busy weekend at Trop: All Pro Dad event, Smash Mouth after A's game
Tropicana Field is going to be pretty busy this weekend.
- First up the Tampa Bay Rays are hosting an All Pro Dads event
beginning at 9:00. this morning on the field. It’s part of the fatherhood program, All Pro Dad, started by former coach and now NBC football analyst Tony Dungy 12 years ago. The 2 1/2-hour event will include games for kids, bonding activities for dads and their children and advice for dads from Rays players, Gabe Gross and Lance Cormier. It’s $15 for one dad and up to four kids. For information, go to the All Pro Dad Web site or call (813) 222-8300.
- Later today, get your game on when the light-and-sunny retro rockers Smash Mouth will be giving a free show after the Rays play the Oakland A's. Game time is 6:08 p.m. The concert is free with game admission. Tickets are $13 and at Ticketmaster or call toll-free 1-888-326-729. They'll do their hits Walking on the Sun, All Star and I'm A Believer.
- And then on Sunday during Family Fun Day, the first 10,000 kids ages 14 and under who attend the 1:38 p.m. game will get a Carl Crawford bobblehead. It's fitting that just a few days before the All-Star Game, all-star Crawford gets the bobblehead treatment. Tropicana Field is at 1 Stadium Drive, St. Petersburg.
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I understand the reason for the blackout and the start time conflict with FOX.
However, except for one Concert game on 8/1 that starts around 4:00 and is carried on FOX, all of the rest of the Concert games remaining this year start after 7:00 and will be televised. So again, what's the deal with Smashmouth?
Posted by: WTF | July 11, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Concert games usually start after 6pm. The game with Pat Benitar surprised me because it was at 7pm. And because of that blackout thing on Saturdays with FOX, no one gets to watch the game today because it doesn't start after 7pm.
Posted by: McLovin | July 11, 2009 at 02:45 PM
Did Smashmouth force the early start time? When Pat Benetar was here, the game started at 7:00 and was able to be televised. Why can't all the concert nights start at 7:00?
Posted by: WTF | July 11, 2009 at 02:38 PM