Today we've begun our trek back home. It's a bittersweet feeling. I'll miss the interactions with the MLB players at BP and watching them joke around with one another. For the second year standing, it's been brought to my attention that Chris Davis and Elvis Andrus are the club clowns! Those two are BIG jokesters and are always laughing and having a great time. It's fun to watch those two with Michael Young, because Young would chime right in...I've really begun to change my opinion on Young and realize he isn't the big cocky veteran that I originally thought he was. He's a very friendly fella and good with the fans too.
It was fun to watch Young WRESTLE Andrus...literally, rolling in the grass...HA! It was humorous to see Davis and Andrus and Young go after one another day after day with the rosin bag. When the three of them were at the batting cages, they were literally hesitant to step out of the cage because they KNEW they were about to get beamed...and they would get beamed (sometimes even BEFORE they would get out of the cage). Then it moved to chunking one another's bats FAR away. Davis grabbed Elvis' bat one day after he nailed him with the rosin bag and chunked the bat probably like 100 yards into the workout field next to the cages. Elvis obviously remembering that the next day, took Davis' bat and chunked it over the FENCE to outside the practice fields complex....HA! Davis obviously not willing to climb the 10 foot fence let the kids fight for it...and two kids took off running around the outside of the complex, as well as jumping the fence to get Davis' bat...HA! Sometimes the entertainment at BP has nothing to do with practicing for the game!
So Spring Training 2010 is a thing of the past. A great time and many wonderful autographs. I plan to post another post later on on this site sharing all the different autographs I got.
Today was the first "half" of our trip back to Dallas. We left Phoenix around 10 AM and my friend drove us on the first part to Benson, Arizona, where we picked up some lunch. I drove from there to El Paso...and let me tell you, I've never seen the desert like that...HA! All the signs along the route constantly warning about possible dust storms in the past were very humorous to me, as it had ALWAYS been bright, sunny, and clear as can be the last three times I've been along this route, but today was a different story!
The dust storms were NUTS! The wings were CRAZY! And dodging the constant tumbleweeds blowing across the interstate (yes, people, those aren't just in Western movies) was like playing a video game! When we arrived in El Paso there was a HUGE rainbow (which we had to find through the dust storms) and when we got out of our car at the hotel we literally almost blew across the parking lot...I'm not kidding! Once we got settled into the room I looked up the weather and it said that the winds were 27 mph, with gusts up to 40 mph in El Paso...SERIOUSLY!! It was NUTS! You can still hear the winds whistling LOUDLY out our hotel window.
So tomorrow we'll make the last part of our journey back to Dallas. We're looking forward to catching up with an old friend (or two) while passing through Abilene. We want to see our friends baby!
Goodnight from El Paso!
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