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German Baseball

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Derrick.

My Mom doesn’t know squat about baseball. Only that we all like going to games. So she took us all out to a Rockies game. Beautiful mid summer night with good company.

I was starving and we ended up with super cheap hotdogs…. $1!

We finally brought the gloves with us, The black one is from my little league days. It fits summer perfect. The other one is my Fathers from when he was a teenager. Together they are about 60 years old. That’s some old leather.

Thanks mom! She was  a trooper. With two artificial hips, my mom sat in the bleachers at Coors field all the way through the 9th inning. I could tell she wanted to leave sometime in the 6th, but she didn’t say a thing about wanting to leave.

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Father's Day

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Derrick.

This is my first fathers day since my Dad died, so instead of bummin around the house we all went to a ball game. Oddly enough, days like today aren’t the tough ones. I’m able to hang out with lots of cool people and my little sister.

We went to another rockies game. I’m still a D-backs fan, but I was cought with a rockies hat on today(they were free). It was a beautifull day in the 80′s with typical colorado thunderheads floating around.

There were over 200 pictures taken, and I took the top 35 and put them into a photo montoge.

We started our day out by accidentally going to the wrong “food” station and instead of cashing in on our “free” hotdog we got the larger hotdog and coke (for a little more than free)

The Rockies were totally winning, and it was a great game to watch.

We didn’t do that much watching as much as we did socializing with Kits Fam. Thanks Kits fam for taking in these homeless D-backs fans!

We spent a good portion of our day guessing what was on this guys shirt. Someone had asked him to tape over the offensive part. I think it was fuzzy bunny!

The legend is, if you have a lady bug land on you, its good luck. However! I think you are cheating if you have a decoy tattooed to you. Like going duck hunting with decoys in the water.

It was a good relaxing day!

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Lets play baseball hookey

Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Derrick.

I was able to snag a couple tickets from my employers for the Rockies game yesterday. The good news is that it was a day game. So we played hookey and brushed off part of the day.

I decided that we were going to ride into downtown on our bikes and save on the parking and get a little ride in as well. We started off with a little lunch and then hit the Platt River trail.

The seats were perty sweet. Club level, 3rd baseline

We were set for sun! Hats, sunscreen, and shorts. Then sat in the shade for the game.

This picture is fore my little sister, she is a big Helton fan. He smacked a foul ball that Summer thought I should have gotten, but oddly enough, I’m not 13ft tall.

- Derrick

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MAN DOWN!

Posted on 11. Mar, 2008 by Derrick.

Well, not really but I did some bike maintenance on all of our bikes and Summer had managed to screw up her front derailer. So we are both taking it easy until I can get it fixed. I bought the wrong part yesterday and will have to go back today to get the right one.

On Sunday we scoped out a ride to Tucson and went to a spring training game. The weekend of the 22nd will be our first over night trip on our bikes. We are riding from Florence AZ, to Tucson AZ. Its 75 miles one way. The plan is to leave at 5am from Florence and be in Tucson by 12 to shower at the hotel and make our way to the Rockies Dbacks game. Then turn around on Sunday and make our way back.

This week we decided on both going thursday, friday, and then do a long 50 miler on Saturday.

Till next time

- D

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