READING, Pa.- Inside Pagoda City Brewing, Opening Day is already in full swing. They opened early for the Phillies, turning this into a full watch party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our annual watch party that we do with WEEU, they are helping the food drive for Helping Harvest,\u201d said Christian Kriebel with Pagoda City Brewing.<\/p>\n
The goal: bring fans together and give back at the same time.<\/p>\n
The place is expecting a crowd throughout the day, with fans coming in waves, before, during, and after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could see upwards of 150 down to 75. They\u2019ll come straight from work and stuff like that,\u201d Kriebel said.<\/p>\n
Outside, a beautiful sunny day and tacos on the grill. Inside, beer flowing. All part of what\u2019s become a yearly tradition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing this a couple of years now, and each year it keeps getting better. Camaraderie here is getting more and more,\u201d said owner Raj Jagadesa.<\/p>\n
For some fans, like Jon Steiger, who just retired,\u2028it\u2019s more than just baseball.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first opening day I wasn\u2019t working,\u201d Steiger said.<\/p>\n
And of course, many are showing up with donations in hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard that and I thought, well, I\u2019ll bring a couple of cans along. Maybe I wouldn\u2019t take it to a game, so I figured I\u2019d bring some stuff,\u201d Steiger added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- Inside Pagoda City Brewing, Opening Day is already in full swing. They opened early for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,2343,27399,68298,28,1425,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-149533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-food-drive","tag-opening-day","tag-pagoda-city-brewing","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}