Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Spring Training part 2
Well, the Diamondbacks v. Angels game was sold out. This meant a frantic drive to Mesa, in order to get tickets for the Cubs v. Brewers. These ballparks are mostly in residential areas, and are hard to find, but I made it to Hohokam park (home of the minor league Mesa Hohokams) and, in time to watch the Cubs morning practice down the street at their practice facility. This was incredible. They have about 5 fields that all originate in the same spot, so you can just stand in the middle and watch the morning minor leaguer games, or batting practice by the big boys, all by turning around. The best part is that these fields are completely accessible. You stand right behind the fence at home plate, next to a radar gun toting scout, or behind the fence during batting practice listening to the hitting instructors give advice to guys like Derek Lee, Todd Walker, and Nomar Garciaparra. The players walk all around you, joke with the fans, and the scouts, talk with family members, etc. The game itself was great. 3 homers: Garciaparra, Burnitz, and Russell Branyan. The Brewers went into the ninth down by 3, and rallied to within one. Tomorrow, I'm going to see the A's play the Rangers. Phoenix still sucks. Tempe is my homebase, if only because of the University. ASU is offensively MTVcentric. It makes Cal Poly look like, God I don't know, Berkeley-ish. The Phoenix area makes me really, really proud to be from California.
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so what's your thought on the juicing scandal? i say, who cares? because even on the juice these guys still gotta train like mad. if i shot roids up my butt, that wouldn't make me jose canseco, you know? since they know everyone's gonna do it anyway, they oughta just embrace it. they could even have like a separate league for the natural athletes. that way everyone could see exactly how much that shit improves your game; just compare stats between players in the two leagues. why not? they've got chick baseball, right? they've got crippled baseball and retard baseball. why not?
Plz. post link to retard baseball.
kthxbye,
Justin
Was the crack about Henry's "scoring prowess" meant to make me giggle, or were you in fact referring to his athletic talent? I'll pretend it was the latter; in any case, I admire Henry because he's incredibly talented. The photos are to convince my female friends (and some of my male ones) that soccer doesn't entirely suck.
Housman passed out again because he is a giant Mary
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