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Hey errybody… I am back! You might find this crazy, but
for a while I thought about erasing my blog and not writing anymore. I erased
my first three entries which sucks but my best one to date is still up (I found a way to get my other 3 blogs back so they are all up again!!) and there
are more to come. So don’t be too sad. Why am I writing tonight? Well because I
have baseball on my mind, that’s why. I was watching the MLB network and there
was a show on called Prime 9. And it is a countdown of baseball’s best moments.
9 moments because “there are 9 players, 9 innings, prime 9” as the
show stated. The first show was a countdown of the top 9 Cinderella Seasons. I
thought for sure the Rockies would be on there. If not the amazing 2007
comeback in September that led to the World Series, then the 2009 comeback that
started in June and led to the NLDS. But the Rockies were not apart of that
count down which kind of got on my nerves. The next countdown show I watched
was the top 9 comebacks. I thought there would be a chance the Rockies would be
on it, and they were! They were number 7 which I think is too low… they
should have been number 2 or 1. Even the commentators said, “You will never
see what the Rockies did happen for another hundred years.” But I can’t
complain, at least we got some recognition. It took me back though it showed
highlights from the “one-game playoff tiebreaker” between the Padres
and the Rockies. I said in my last entry how amazing watching that game was.
Seeing the highlights made me want to watch the whole game again. It would be
like reliving the past without the near heart attack that game could have
created.
            With
thinking about baseball, I also started thinking about the time of year
baseball is played; summer. And it bummed me out. The summer of 2008 was one of
my best summers ever. I met some amazing people I will never forget and still
think about constantly. So many songs remind me of 2008. That was the summer I
graduated, that was the summer I went camping one day and came back the next
day for an amazing 4th of July Rockies game, the summer where going to Water
World was a must, and pool parties were a weekly Friday event. The summer of
2009 definitely did NOT live up. Sure, I went to plenty of Rockies games
and went to the 3rd of July game (which was also amazing). But the weather
sucked. It rained every day. I think most the games I went to either had rain
during, before, or after the games. None got canceled but it still made it
chilly which I am not used to in baseball. The only time you should go to a
chilly baseball game is in October when your team is in the postseason. I really hated the summer of 2009. I was working all the time which really sucked. I even had to work on the 4th of July. And it poured on the 4th of July. I will be so happy if I never see rain again. I feel like the rain ruined my summer. With that said, I really hope 2010 is scorching hot. I hope I get plenty of chances to go to pool parties again, get back to Water World, and go to three times as many Rockies games that I went to in 2008 and 2009 combined. The holidays are here and I was starting to get excited and starting to cope a little better with the fact that there is no baseball right now. Then my family started their own traditions and the holidays felt a little less exciting. I am always getting mad at people close to me lately and it just makes me wish the holidays were over. Now that I am older, it feels like the holidays are a time of stress instead of joy. Which I guess makes sense to me now. When I was younger I never understood why adults hated the holidays. I think I know why now. I am so over the holidays now and I miss April again. Like I said before, I cannot wait for April. I am going to start counting down the days until April 5th, 2010 lol. Since I miss baseball and the summer so much, I wanna bring up a game I went to towards the end of the summer in 2008. This was a really cold day in September and we got to sit in the club level seats. My cousin Matt won tickets at work and he invited me and my cousin Brittany because he knows how crazy we are about the Rockies. The club level was cool… It was heated and they had free food and drinks. The people kind of sucked because they were all in suits and ties and they didn’t cheer or go nuts like we were doing. The end of the summer that year was a really stressful time for me because I was just starting college and I was writing a really hard paper before that game started and i unfortunately don’t remember what day it was or who we played, but I am pretty sure we lost :(. I think it was September 6th against the Astros. Here is a picture of us in our club level seats.

I am not sure what I miss more; summer, or baseball. Don’t get me wrong at all, I love baseball with all my heart, but another one of my loves is summer. I love going swimming, I love wearing shorts, sun glasses, flip flops and being lazy. The flip flops thing is me being lazy. I love late night BBQ’s that involve waking up the next day on the couch with a pounding head ache and then recovering to watch baseball later that day. All these things I tie into baseball. If we were not at a game, we were watching it at a pool party, or at a bar. Sorry for that random summer rant… here is another baseball rant. This game happened before the summer started and I was NOT at it because it happened at Petco Park in San Diego, California on April 17th, 2008. I was watching this game in my room because I had a sinus infection. I was tired and the game kept going and going and going. The score was 0-0 until the 14th inning when both teams got a run. Score is 1-1 and after that, we go 8 more innings until Troy Tulowitzki hits an RBI double in the top of the 22ND inning. The Padres came up short in the bottom of the 22nd and the game finally ends, 2-1. It was around 2:00 AM mountain time so fans in the east coast were watching that game until 4 AM. Right after that game, I got like 3 text messages from friends and my cousin saying, “That was amazing!!” and it was!! I was so exhausted the next day I could barely stay awake but it was worth it. Well, now that this novel is done, I will be writing sooner than later with more Rockies goodness. Until then, HURRY UP, APRIL GET HERE!!!!