What a game!

Mr. Beisbolfan and I watched part of the Rockies game last night, then went outside to enjoy a beautiful cloudy, breezy August evening. When we came back inside, the game was still going, tied 1-1 in the 9th. I can't resist an extra inning game, because you never know what you might see. This time we saw last year's Cy Young award winning pitcher, Tim Lincecum, used as a pinch runner. Then we saw the Giants (boo) go ahead 4-1 in the top of the 14th. Things didn't look so good for our Rockies, until Ryan Spillborghs came up with 1 out in the bottom of the 14th, and the bases loaded. I wouldn't be writing this post if he hadn't hit a walk-off grand slam home run. That's my boy!

Minor rant

I try to be positive, but I have to get a couple of gripes off my chest.

I'm really tired of walking into a store, and having somebody yell "Hi! Howya doing today?" the second I set foot inside the door. Usually I'm fumbling to get my clip-on sunglasses off & safely into my purse without dropping or scratching them, and on more than one occasion I've jumped when I'm startled by overeager store clerks. They don't make me want to shop and spend in their stores -- in fact, quite the opposite. I feel like telling them what I tell our overenthusiastic puppy -- dial it down a notch.

And why is it when people give out a web address, they insist on pronouncing "/" as "backslash"? / is a regular slash, or forward slash. \ is a backslash, and is not used in web addresses. Get it straight, people!

Perfection

Mr. Beisbolfan thought this box score was pretty cool -- a whole lotta 0 for 3s. We saw most of Randy Johnson's perfect game on May 18, 2004 on TV. Actually, I missed the first part, but heard it on the radio driving home from chemotherapy with my mom. Then we stopped at Diana Madaras' gallery to get a wedding gift for Ann & Spike. I got home to see the end of Randy's perfecto, along with Mr. Beisbolfan. Conga-rats to Mark Buehrle. He's in an elite group of 18.

Vote for Mark!

We have a chance to vote for the final baseball all-star in each league. Mark Reynolds of the Arizona Diamondbacks is deserving of your vote! His 24 home runs are 2nd in the National League, and his 61 RBI put him 3rd in the NL. Sounds like an all-star to me.

Vote early and often!

http://tinyurl.com/voteformarkreynolds

You can also vote for Tucson boy Ian Kinsler (CDO High School) to be an American League all-star.

Proud to be a Husky

Familia

The last few days we've had the opportunity to spend lots of time with my family. We've had several gatherings, since some cousins were in town for my Uncle Travis's memorial service. I'm very lucky to have such a neat family. I constantly marvel at how much fun we can have just hanging out together talking & enjoying food and / or music. I'm already looking forward to the next gathering, in a few months, when we remember "the four brothers", or "los hnos" -- my dad and his 3 brothers. It's hard to believe that they're all gone now.


We met for dinner at Midway Molina, one of my Aunt Patty's favorite Mexican restaurants. When we got there, Steven said "Patty's in the emergency room. She's not going to make it." Matt said "At all?? Or just for dinner?" Pretty funny. Not funny that she broke her ankle, though. At least Steven & Judy took some food home for her.

Neil & Debbie were so nice to offer their house for 2 impromptu gatherings. Muchas gracias to the hosts with the most!

Judy taking the picture instead of Matt this time. Bummer that Cody & Tori left before we got around to taking a group photo. And Happy 4th Anniversary to Dani & Josh! They were excused from the gathering to celebrate their day.

Unplugged

We recently had a wonderful vacation in New Orleans. We got to spend lots of time with family, eat too much good food, listen to music, smell the flowers, and generally soak up all the good things about New Orleans. What we didn't do was watch TV, surf the web, blog, twitter, text, or any of those things that seem to consume so much time these days. It was great. I'm having a hard time getting back to those things, and I'm not sure that I even want to.