Saturday, August 02, 2008

TEXAS UPDATE.

Things to remember when you get on a plane to go a thousand miles to see your team play:
THE CAMERA BATTERY. I know, I know. How could I, of all people, forget the camera battery? Thank god for Best Buy.

--Texas is hot. Like 106 hot. Like 99 degrees at first pitch hot. (And if anyone here says “but it’s a dry heat” I will invite you to do our laundry when we get back.)
--I sat next to a real cowboy Friday night
--Hunter Pence is dating this really sleazy stripper, and Houston is convinced that’s why he stopped hitting. David Wright isn’t dating a stripper, but I have to wonder if his current issues aren’t related
--Houston hecklers are the most boring and unoriginal in the entire country (gotta branch out from ‘sucks’, people)
--There so definitely was a second shooter behind the picket fence
--Billy Wagner is unreliable as heck (it was Family and Faith day up in Arlington, so that was as vocal as we got) when you need him most.
--In a superiority contest between the two ballparks, Arlington wins. However, while nursing my dehydration around 6:30, my superiority about not seeing baseball in air conditioning vanished.

Please, let Oliver The Good take the hill in Houston tomorrow. We are sitting six rows up from home plate, look for me. I’ll be the one NOT waving at the camera while not talking on my cell phone. TBF is planning on having a sitdown with some diehard Astros fan to find out why on earth they hate poor Carlos Beltran so much. Pray for us all.

More later.

With love from Corsicana, TX,

MG