Spring Training #2

[jpgr]

This will be the first of 2 posts today.

My two friends and I went to our second game yesterday and the weather was gorgeous. It was a little bit more cloudy and a bit more humid but there was a nice breeze. The Mets were playing the Marlins who train down in Jupiter (just about 40 minutes down I95) and that always means a full crowd. We were in a different spot this game: upper reserve just behind home plate which you'll see in the photos. The lineup seemed to be Opening Day form with the big guns: Delgado, Beltran, Wright, Reyes along with CHurch and Murphy. The one who had a fabuloius day was Jonathan Malo, who played in AA last year and wasn't even in the Met's program. Oh yeah, and we got to see K-Rod pitch an inning.










That's K-Rod on the mound in the last pic.

Tomorrow night we'll be behind first base so I should get better shots.

Comments

[coquillagement.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love spring training.
Tomorrow night you better watch out for wild throws from crazy Oliver Perez. Some of them might even be pitches!

[dakfinv.livejournal.com]

Aw man. One of these years, my mom and I are going to go down to Spring Training, though not for the Mets, of course. ;) We do get season tickets for Reading, so we can see a lot of the up and comers there. Looks like it was a lovely day.

[jpgr.livejournal.com]

We were trying to figure out who would be pitching tomorrow. It was Dillon Gee (again) yesterday and Pelfrey is going today.

[jpgr.livejournal.com]

I've gone up for a couple minor league games before. Maybe I should try a few more. To make you happy, I was flipping through some baseball mags and they placed the Phils in first and Mets second. (But what do they know?)

[dakfinv.livejournal.com]

Oh no! They can't rank us first. We never win when people think we're going to win, only when they don't believe in us! Crap! We need to go lose a few games now.

(Philadelphia is not paranoid. No, we're not.)

Minor league baseball is fun, though of course it depends on which stadium you go to. We're a little spoiled because Reading is one of the best run stadiums - the Phils steal a lot of their ideas from them.