Many of you may not know that Oaxaca has a Minor League baseball team, the Guerreros de Oaxaca, a Triple-A team in the Mexican League. They play at Estadio de Béisbol Lic. Eduardo Vasconcelos, right off the Pan American Highway, and most seats look out onto the sierras to the east. Tickets are inexpensive (women, seniors, and children usually pay even less), a friend insists it’s a great place to learn local Spanish swear words, and it’s a mere 25 blocks from Casita Colibrí (definitely within walking distance).
However, until Tuesday night, I hadn’t been to a game in almost three years.
The Guerreros were playing the Vaqueros Laguna from Torreón, Coahuila AND women got in free! Besides the action by the players on the field, there were cheerleaders. What can I say??? They certainly know how to toss their hair!
Despite the free ticket promotion for women (and men only paid 25 pesos), the stands were about an eighth full. However, this guy and his drum walked up and down the main aisle, drumming up fan support.
Unfortunately, in the bottom on the second inning, the rain that had been threatening, finally came. The game was halted, the players headed into their respective dugouts, and the ground crew pulled out the tarp.
It was already 8:15 PM, and we succumbed to being “fair weather fans” and left. The game eventually resumed and the Guerreros lost, 2-5, BUT they won the next night, 12-5, and are currently in third place in the Mexican League Sur.
I will return… THIS season!
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The cheerleaders are not hired for the length of their hair.
Curious….
What are you trying to suggest Mr. Myler?
It was not suggested that they were hired for the length of their hair.
Was it?.
I’d like that. I gave up on major league baseball about twenty years ago, having been a fan for at least forty years; the minors — or Little League — are more enjoyable now.
¡Todos somos guerreros!
I’m SO envious that you went to a Guerreros game!
I saw my first Alebrijes de Oaxaca soccer game this year. The team is professional level and play in the second tier of Mexican football league. The champion of the finals is promoted to the top-flight division whereas the bottom team gets relegated to the the third tier, so the stakes can be high. All tickets are 100 pesos and entitle one can sit anywhere and I quickly found a seat near center field. The Benito Juarez Stadium was 2/3 full but sounded fuller, with fans oohing and aahing as the play went back and forth. There was a boisterous group at one end waving some 20 large team flags, incessantly singing, drumming, dancing. Futbol in Oaxaca is a fun and friendly event.