It Was Our Josh Hamilton Day

This evening I've been wornout and was busy on the internet preparing for tomorrow. Tomorrow morning we head out of Phoenix, but we decided today, when we noticed that Rangers play tomorrow at 1 PM against the Colorado Rockies at the Rockies stadium, which just so happens to be in Tucson -- which is exactly where we travel through on our way to El Paso. Soooo....

We are going to catch one more Rangers game before getting back to Texas. So tonight I had to book our hotel room for El Paso tomorrow night, write up directions....write up directions to the Rockies stadium...and plan for our travel through Tucson to figure out time it will take to arrive there and what time we'd need to leave Phoenix in the morning. Now I'm just wornout and not really interested in typing much up, so I didn't send in a guest blog to the Dallas Morning News tonight, and as for this blog, it's going to be short and sweet...

Batting practice was good. Once again, since it was a home game today at 1 PM, getting autographs at batting practice lasted for a little longer than yesterday. Today my friend and I got us a few Josh Hamilton autographs -- that was our big "scores" from BP. Josh is such a great guy! He is so generous with his time and signing for the TONS of fans that follow him around everywhere at BP.

As for the game, the Rangers pulled it out, but the starting pitching by Kris Benson looked shaky in the first inning, as he gave up 4 runs. We felt we might have a bleak chance at coming back, as today we had several of our "big bats" out of the line-up (Hamilton, Kinsler, & Cruz did not play), but we pulled it out, driving in 6 runs in one inning! Blaylock played in his first game (as actually playing offense and defense...as he played third while Young DHed)....but he didn't do anything at the plate and got him an error on the field....and then went out of the game injured when he flipped over the railing and into the Athletics dugout when going after a foul-ball. Hmmm, wonder if this will put good ol' Hank on the DL -- he seems more comfortable there than in the game nowadays it seems.

Our time in Phoenix as been loads of fun! We each got a load of autographs and learned so much about the players. I love noting personality aspects of the guys, which you can get from the interactions you get with them at BP since you are right there with them! I hope to comment more about the players individually in the near future, but that won't be tonight, as I'm exhausted.

I'm going to end with some more pictures from today.




Above is just some of my autographs. On this t-shirt I got:

Ian Kinsler
Oliver Perez
Jason Jennings
Kevin Millwood
Eddie Guardado
Scott Feldman
Chris Davis
Ron Washington
Kris Benson
Julio Borbon
Hank Blaylock
Dustin Nippert
Elvis Andrus
Luis Mendoza
C.J. Wilson
Greg Golson
Matt Harrison
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
German Duran
Justin Smoak
Derek Holland
Brandon Boggs


David Murphy (OF) signing after he exited the game today.

Josh Hamilton (OF) signing at batting practice.

Hamilton, Murphy, and Cruz waiting for the hitting coaches to get over to the batting cages so they are work on hitting.

Some of the guys waiting around on their turn to hit.