Orioles/Royals 5/8/08

Allie scored us some tickets for last night's game. We had great seats and parking spot. We parked about 25 yards from the entrance.

The new HD scoreboard in CF is worth the price of admission. It was incredible filled with information and easy to read. I would love to play a game of Madden on there and crush the Giants behind the powerful running of Ronnie Brown.

Our seats were right behind home plate 6 rows off the field.

And the best part of the night was Markakis, or as Allie likes to say "Your Husband", going yard. So he's my favorite Oriole since Cal. He's fun to watch, a great player, and hopefully he will be an Oriole for many years.

The Orioles won 4-1. One down and two more to go for me. I'm going again tonight and Saturday night. The Tracy's are flying in for this one. Tonight Mike and I are going and tomorrow Cashdollar, Mike, Allie and I are going.

Are You Ready for some Football?

Ripken is. One of her favorite games is chasing the football, then keep away and finally catch. Today, we started our Organized Team Activities (OTA's) working on our quickness:

Then avoiding the tackle:
and lastly the catching drills:

Now we just need to work on her endurance.

Interesting Thursday

Thursday started off great with working from home and then heading to the golf course for a quick 9 in my golf league. It was a rough outing hitting with 20-30 MPH winds as a set of thunderstorms was heading our way. By the time I got home, the storms were just about upon our house. Within an hour, the sirens were going off in Spring Hill because of a tornado warning. The sirens ended up going off twice that night as two different thunderstorm passed directly by us with the possibilities of producing tornadoes. I thought I did pretty well for the first time having to react to the sirens. I didn't pull a George Castanza when a fire started in the over at a kids birthday party. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueh_1PeJhaQ&feature=related) We calmly and quickly gathered the animals and headed for the basement. We were all safe and not much damage was done by our house but some others were not as lucky as we were. Missouri and Arkansas were hit hard by the line of storms that passed our house.