Sometimes life as an afro-wearing writer can be difficult. Sometimes it seems like I have become more famous for my larger-than-life hair than for the million or so words I have written online. Sometimes I feel my writing achievements have been unrecognized and unappreciated. Forget that I once won an award for Writer of the Year at my college newspaper. Forget that I was writing long, long before I donned an afro for the...
Just to the west of Clearwater, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and on the northern reaches of the Tampa Bay area lies Dunedin, birthplace of the voice of Space Ghost and home to the Dunedin Blue Jays, Class-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. Last Saturday, I made my second trip to Dunedin. Although I was there a few years ago for a spring training game, this past weekend I made...
Saturday afternoon was opening night for the Rochester Red Wings as they took on the Pawtucket Red Sox at frigid Frontier Field. The fans were buzzing, the band was playing, hot dogs and sausages were filling my nose from the minute I walked into the ball park. There is nothing more exciting than opening day. Every fan that came to the game received a magnet schedule and a Red Wings cowbell, which if you...
I promise not to inundate you with videos from the one game I’ve been to this year, but I wanted to put one together that showed more of the cool/unique/routine things about opening night in Richmond. The fun part is putting all the clips together and then trying to find a song that is the same length. It probably took me an hour to settle on this: I just thought “Hey Ya!” had a...
So, by a fantastic stroke of luck, Will happened to be visiting a friend in Richmond on the very eve that the new Eastern League franchise the Flying Squirrels had their opening night. There was no way we could miss it and look at ourselves in the mirror ever again. I took the video camera with me for the first time. What I really want to do is edit together a highlight reel of...
You can drive all the way to historic McCormick Field in Asheville, North Carolina, but if you’re from Jersey, as I am, it can still feel damn near impossible to shake the Garden State. This night’s offering in the single-A South Atlantic League: The hometown Asheville Tourists, affiliates of the Colorado Rockies, take on the Lakewood (NJ) BlueClaws, 2009′s Sally League champions and minor-league feeders to the Philadelphia Phillies. McCormick is one of those...
(Check out the pictures of Opening Day at Steinbrenner Field here.) Although Central Florida is not known for its varying climate, there are those milestones in the yearly journey that allow Floridians to mark off the seasons. We know Fall by the kick-off of high school football, Winter by the rumble of the NFL, and Spring by the return of pitchers and catchers. And when most of the big leaguers leave and re-migrate north,...
If you have a second, please drop by the Lynchburg Hillcats homepage and hit the “like” button on this photo of my son at a game from last year. If we get the most “likes” we can post our next photo montage from the skybox at the April 13 game. The Hillcats are the High-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the stadium is about an hour away from my place. My son Jack...
Just over two months after my first visit to western Pennsylvania with my brother Tim and two friends, I went back to the Keystone State, this time with my wife. Our anniversary was Friday, we both had a three-day weekend for Labor Day, and the free Pirates tickets I won in June were burning a hole in my pocket, so we each took a couple extra days off and planned a trip. She originally...
I’m not going to write a whole lot about Cooperstown. Yes, it as an awesome visit – it’s always an awesome visit – but nothing out of the ordinary happened there. We saw a lot of cool stuff at the Hall (Tim took a ton of pictures, some of which I’ll post below), ate at the Doubleday Café (where we watched the United States take a 2-0 halftime lead on Brazil), visited my favorite...
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
