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2010 Mariner's Opening Day

Update – picture – this is from a few days ago. The Giants shirt says Johnson – 300 on the back. It was in honor of Randy Johnson’s 300th win – which happened with the Giants. Randy threw out the first pitch for the Mariners at this game. The roof was closed when the picture was taken (raining), but they opened it up for the game (not raining).

Games — mostly baseball still.
Last night went to a packed house Mariner’s game. The draw? Detroit Tigers? More likely the first Friday night game. Oh- and they had Ken Griffey Jr. Bobbleheads.
We did not sit in our normal seats, but up in the left field bleachers.

When I put on my sweatshirt the man next to me asked if I went to CSU? (It was a Colorado State sweatshirt – just to clarify the CSU) I said I had, and it turns out he and his wife were both enrolled there at the same time I was, only as undergraduates. His family is from Loveland and still there. We had a nice chat. Carl came a bit later and talked baseball at them all game. It was rather fun. They may get some of our other tickets for some future games. As Carl was giving them our telephone number, a ball literally landed in his lap – or maybe breadbasket. He works and works (really plays) to get balls during batting practice, and now, in an inning change, while in the upper deck, one falls into his lap. We were in the 3rd row, and the guys in the 1st row had been begging for a ball from the bull-pen folks. They finally chucked one up, but overshot row 1.

Oh – and the Mariners won, 11-3. It was a fun game, lots of hits. A nice way for a big crowd to see their first (maybe) game of the year. Make them want to come back for more.

There is another Mariner game tonight. And we are NOT going. This is so the folks that think Carl is over the edge insane will have a glimmer of hope that he is not. And it is true. Baseball is a passion, but not the only passion, or the most important thing.

We are going to a Seattle Sounders FC Soccer game today! [But that is not what is keeping us from the Mariners. In fact the games follow one-another, and are in stadiums right next to each other. Very easy to do a double header – and we plan to do that on May 1st.]

What is really happening today is Carl is pitching practice for a high school baseball team, then the Sounder’s game, and then a birthday party for one of his charges. She is turning 5 years old. Graduating to kindergarten next year. Wow – time flies. We are actually missing the fun part of the party where they do crafts and stuff. (It’s for the kids!) But we are doing the get-together after the crafty bits.

Oh – and I rediscovered how to use the Metro bus application that shows where the buses are on their routes – basically real time. This should work for me today as I am catching a route at the end of our block, so it should be easy to predict the walking time. Speaking of which – time to go pack lunch.

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