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The Gathering X: June 22, 2019

So the voting has finished and with no ties this year, the most popular date was June 22, 2019 at 4:05 PM against the San Diego Padres. Hopefully, with the Gathering there the Pirates can avoid some sort of collapse beginning with a home series against the Padres.

As said in the voting thread, it looks like people want the tailgating back next year so I will leave it those most likely to attend to work that stuff out. I could be there, I could not, who knows? Having a baby makes it hard to pack up a car and drive 850 miles to go to a tailgate party and a baseball game. I do miss them though, I haven't been to one since 2016 when my wife and I scored free tickets to the game against the Cubs (and man, seeing Josh Bell hit a grand slam was worth the price of an airline ticket to the Burgh).

So yeah, does anyone have any good memories either about the game or the pregame tailgating they'd like to share? I really enjoyed the 2012 Gathering as well, it was a long summer that year for us and it was nice to have a couple of days off to just relax, drink some beer and enjoy a game.

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