The End of the Summer of Baseball …
I’ve been to quite a few baseball games this summer, in Fort Collins, Pawtucket, Philadelphia, and Boston. Last night a few of Jen’s former lab workers and I went to the Worcester Tornadoes game. It was their last home game of the season, and due to recently disclosed financial problems, very likely their last game in Worcester ever. It’s a shame, I remember their opening season in 2005 and feeling just a little proud that Worcester had a professional baseball team. They might not have been the best record and not in the best league, but it was still something to get behind. When friends visited from Boston in the summer, I could say, “Hey, let’s go see our baseball team…. “
Anyways, over the past seven years, I’ve had some good evenings at Fitton Field, watching the summer sun slowly slide behind 290 and the big brick Rotmans Building. Games with Pete, John and his daughers, Mike, Tim and Ali, Paul B, Sara and Amanda, and my nieces Emma and Siobhan. Special appreciation nights with Children’s Friends and the American Red Cross. (That latter event, in 2006, I met another volunteer named Jen MacDonald and I thought she was kind of cute…. Little did I know we’d be dating three years later).
Well, thanks for the memories, Worcester Tornadoes. I hope to see baseball again in the city.
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Zinnia
Jen has a plot at the John Street Community Garden. One of her neighbors is growing zinnias, which were butterfly magnets this morning.
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The Reu-NU-ion
Last night I met with my freshman year friends Josh, Kristin, and Wil in Davis Square, Somerville for dinner. Kristin and Wil are teachers, so it was neat to spend time with them before they go into school-year hibernation.
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Go Pawsox!
The Summer of Baseball continues… Game #5. Last night my high school buddy Paul B and I went to the Pawtucket Red Sox game. The Pawsox lost to the Rochester Redwings, the Minnesota Twins farm team. It was my first time at McCoy stadium. Very cool – for $11 tickets, I’ll be back next year.
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Friendly’s
Ice cream with my college friend Nicole, at Friendly’s, a Massachusetts institution. Nicole and her husband Dean moved to Austin a few years ago, and while she was in town visiting family, it was good to have time to sit and catch up.
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Ralitsa and Paul G
Before I went to the baseball game yesterday (Saturday) with Jared, I had lunch with Paul G, a friend from college, and his wife Ralitsa and saw their new home in Brookline.
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Futures at Fenway
This afternoon my frshman year roomate, @JaredNabel, and I went to Futures at Fenway, a showcase of four minor league teams which get to play at Fenway Park. We saw the Buffalo Bisons (Mets) play the Providence Pawsox (Red Sox). This was a great deal, for $10 we got two baseball games and gotten the whole Fenway experience without the craziness of a regular Red Sox outing. Plus, as you can see by the stands behind us, we had our choice of sections… (We sat in seats that probably would have cost about $60 each.)
I’m very proud of Jared, who just began his 18-week police officer training at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy on Monday. (He has a nice shaved head under that trucker cap).
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Goodbye Mastercard
Today I mailed out my very last credit card payment. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever again!!!!
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Worcester World Cup
Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon I went to the fianl two games of the Worcester World Cup, a soccer series in which players representing seventeen different nationalities in Worcester play a round robin contest for bragging rights. I got to see Ecuador womens defeat El Salvador womens during penalty kicks 1-0, and Liberia mens defeat Albania mens, 4-1.
It was cool to glimpse some friendly, skilled, international competition, especially at the same time the Olympics wrapped up.
Here the Liberia supporters sing and celebrate their second goal, with 15 minutes left in the second half (for Albania’s part, though, they had far fewer subs on the bench).
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