Saturday night I went to the Royals game with some friends. We had a blast despite the Royals lost and there were a TON of twins fans there.
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Twins vs. Royals Game
August 15, 2008Fireworks Friday
May 11, 2008Side note: – who would have thought I’d have 3 different posts on just on one Royals game? Well, I don’t like putting 40 pictures in one post. I used my entire 4GB memory card that night (that includes weeding through the obvious bad ones) so picking my favorites was really difficult.
Even though the Royals didn’t win at least it was Fireworks Friday. One can easily be convinced after 15 straight losses to go buy a ticket only because you’re guaranteed to see behemoth explosions.
Who doesn’t love the smell of sulfur and burning metal while ash falls down on you?? Ahhh… they should make a perfume that smells like fireworks. I’d totally buy it. Plus you’d know who all the otherwise-anonymous-pyros are out in public. It would be like our secret handshake but even better. You’ll think they’re “normal”until their holy holiday arrives – the Fourth of July. These pyros are the ones driving to Missouri and spending half their paycheck on items named “Excalibur”, Super Magnum Artillery, or fireworks that are illegal in 38 states. That’s the only great thing about Missouri – THEY SELL FIREWORKS YEAR ROUND!!!! I have no clue what I’d do for this holiday if I didn’t live so close. Thank God for the NRA.
You’ll recognize these closet pyros without a doubt on the 5th of July. They’re the ones yelling during the conference call because they tried to throw a mortar shell, it bounced back and blew out their eardrum. You’ll notice burns on their arms from the Roman candle war they were in. Fools – everyone knows to bring armor and PVC piping.
On a note about the pictures – I only brought my 55-200mm lens and it wasn’t nearly wide enough for these firework shots. I try to limit what gear I carry but I didn’t consider the fireworks aspect at all. Don’t worry I’m sure I’ll be at 20 more games this season so I’ll bring my kit lens with me next time for some better shots.
Oh Yeah the Royals Game
May 10, 2008I got so preoccupied with David Cook on my last post that I totally forgot to blog about the actual Royals versus Orioles game. Kansas Citians don’t typically have high expectations of their teams but who else are you going to root for? At least the Dolphins beat the Chiefs at being the worst in the NFL last year. Don’t worry Miami we’ll take the title from you this year. One thing you have to give credit to us for – as a city we are definitely thickheaded loyal to keep cheering for our teams year after year despite their pitiful records.
We were in a suite which totally rocks since there is free food and drinks. Bonus you don’t have to worry about the inebriated guy behind you screaming blatantly obvious things way too loudly like “HIT THE BALL” or “CATCH THE BALL”. I’m certain the team didn’t realize how to play baseball until you pointed it out tonight. Thanks for pointing that out dude, you should be the coach.
Grudzielanek getting a single.
Mmmm hot dogs!!!
Cheering them on
David Cook vs the Royals
May 10, 2008Long Rant Warning Ahead!!
OK Kansas City you act like you’re so surprised that someone, ANYONE from our region has become “famous” on American Idol. When you live in a metropolitan area with almost 2 million people there’s bound to be someone at some point that gets on the show. More importantly, at some point, there’ll be someone that doesn’t make a total embarrassment of themselves during the auditions.
The ENTIRE morning news today was obsessed with David Cook. I turned on the news this morning expecting to find out the weather. Well much to my surprise all they were showing was the outside of his hotel. The blow-by-blow reporting was mind numbingly painful. “When David leaves his hotel in 42 minutes 18 seconds he will take this route, blah, blah blah. The ‘news’ reported live when he arrived at the local (Fox – big surprise) television station’s parking lot for an interview. It’s like they didn’t have the usual ‘a tree fell in Overland Park’ story to report on…. PEOPLE I NEED TO KNOW WHICH TREE IT WAS.
I don’t ask for a lot I’d just like hear the weather and find out whether I should wear a parka or capris today – this is Kansas City May weather after all – (yeah I should have just worn both because the weathermen have no clue). I digress.
Don’t get me wrong I like David Cook and IF I was going to vote for any American Idol I MIGHT vote for him. However, when every single minute of the morning news is obsessed over every iota of his itinerary…. well we’ve all become those obsessive tween age girls like these (bet you’d given up all hope on seeing any pictures in this post right?)
David threw the first pitch at the Royals vs. Orioles game. Plus he sang ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ during the 7th inning. So of course everyone and their BFF (AKA the lovely news helicopter) were at the game to drool over see him. Oh yeah and to watch a baseball game. Ok now that my obligatory “OMG David I want to be the mother of your children” moment is over the real question I’ve been dying to find out – “Can I lick your stubble?”
