Sunday is Funday with Sky Sox!

Sunday matinee games have become Family Day at Security Services Field. It is the official day of $.50 cent hot dogs and of the Sky Sox Kids Club, where Club members take the field at the end of the game and get to run the bases with Sky Sox mascot Sox the Fox.

Keep the caption PG people! He's only 4!

Arriving shortly after the first pitch, the concourse was already milling with kids, most of whom were proudly wearing their Sky Sox Kids Club t-shirts as they weaved in and out of Dad’s who were fresh from the concession stand with the maximum allotment of eight discounted hot dogs in their arms to take back to their seats.

$.50 worth of love and a sodee...

I too had the full intention of finding our seats after leaving the snack window, but my son Tyler had a different agenda. At four years old, he is still a bit bored with the finer nuances of America’s Pastime, but he knows what a bounce house looks like from a mile away. With our dogs dressed in ketchup and mustard and a large soda to go around, we made our way to the Fun Zone located above the left field berm.

Baseball game? What baseball game?

For $6, Tyler received unlimited play in the Fun Zone, which in addition to the bounce house, included an inflatable rope wall and slide as well as a simulated pitcher’s mound where budding Nolan Ryan’s could test their arm’s heat under the radar gun. My wife and I joined a contingent of parents who were sitting at picnic tables where they could relax and watch the game while still keeping an eye on their kids.

The kid is occupied, mom is relaxed, and dad is going back for another 8 hot dogs

We sat there and leisurely chatted for most of the game while Tyler would come over and grab a bite in between trips of bouncing and sliding away. He would stop only long enough to watch the in-game antics Sox the Fox, or Rockies mascot Dinger the Dinosaur who had made a special appearance.

Dude, this is so not Sox the Fox...

With my son happily worn out and content, by the seventh inning we had arrived in our seats-just as the skies were starting to show subtle hints of the storm pushing its way over the mountains.

Our view for the better part of the game...not to shabby

Eventually the rains did come, and though the afternoon showers may have sent us to the parking lot with a 2-2 tie on the scoreboard and with Tyler having yet to take the field to run the bases, the day was well spent outside among a few thousand friends, and all for less than taking the family to a movie! That’s a good day in my book.

Membership has its privileges...

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