Lesson Learned

Well you have to learn the spring training schedule somehow, and what better way to learn it than a leisurely stroll beside the empty practice fields on a pretty Phoenix morning.

So yesterday my friend and I were wondering just how long the major leaguers would be practicing for out at the fields since they didn't have a 1 PM game, but rather an evening game. We got excited at the thought that instead of the public getting in at 10 AM and the players leaving by 11:30 to prepare for the game, that they might stick around at the fields till like noon or 1 PM. Well we couldn't have been more wrong...

So we arrived out at the fields with all the other people ready to head over to the Rangers big leaguers field at 10 AM...and when they let us all in we get over to their fields to learn that they don't practice at all in the mornings when they have an evening game. GREAT! So, having the pleasure of the Rangers sharing their stadium with another MLB teams -- the Royals -- we figured since we were already out here, might as well head on over to the Royals practice fields and maybe I could get a Ankiel, or Greinke, or Kendall autograph. So we get over to their fields only to learn that they too have an evening game today, so their players weren't out on the fields yet either. NICE! Well, at least it was pretty outside...

So we got back to the hotel and actually hit the sports cards shop across the street from our hotel. Learned that the sports card shop we frequent in Arlington back at home is actually VERY nice and has a lot more stuff, as this one here was pretty pathetic. Oh well.

Now we need to plan the rest of the week, as we have two more "evening game" nights this week, meaning we won't have Rangers BP to go to at 10 AM...I'm thinking we might try to go catch some other MLB squads BP then. We'll see.

Whelp...it's 1:15 PM here now, so we're gonna start getting ready to head back to the Rangers practice fields hoping they start at 2 PM (not 3 PM).

Note: Don't expect an update on here for todays BP autographs and tonight's game tonight because we won't get out of the game here tonight till about 10 PM...which will make it midnight central time. Then we've still gotta get home, so yeah, y'all will pretty much all be knocked out hard asleep by time I'm getting back to the hotel. HA!