Behind the mask

Friday, May 11, 2007

Chilling in K-Falls

It's time for an update, After escaping Mammoth, I took off and headed to the other side of the sierras by driving down and around California, instead of a four hour trip it was six hours south and then north, in all reality I only traveled about 75 miles west from Mammoth. Where I hung out with some friends in Reedley, Ca which is a farm town about half hour south of Fresno. While there I hung out and got the grand tour of Reedley, it didn't take long even though there's 25,000 or people in the town. During my time there I started on my ballpark tour and the first part has been good. Four ballpark in only five days, I've hit four ballparks, Fresno, Visalia, Sacramento and Stockton. It was pretty cool to say the least. I will have to have say Fresno is rapidly becoming one of my favorite ballparks, it's a cool downtown stadium that I like. Plus I know some of the staffers so that always makes it fun to catch up what people have been up too that you have worked with. Now a few a thoughts about the other ballparks. Visalia has one of the oldest ballparks in the nation which is about to start a major renovation after the season. It's no where near one of the greatest ballparks in the nation, but it's kinda of classic of what you think a of a small town minor league ballpark is. Now for the others. Sacramento is one the top ballparks in the minors, it has the atmosphere of a major league ballpark in a minor league park. Which is a major accomplishment plus add in a top notch staff and you got one of the top operations in the minors and it shows. It's a great park and one that should be one the list of places to visit.
Now for last park. Stockto's Banner Island Ballpark might be one of the best built ballparks ever designed. It's a 4,000 seat wrap around ballpark with no bad views from anywhere in the ballpark. You can walk around the park all game and never miss a pitch and I mean anywhere, from behind homeplate to the right field catwalk, there is no bad seat at all. If you get a chance get to this park. It's one of the best, many ways even better than Sacramento's which is saying a lot. So get to this one if you are a minor league afficandio like I am in.
Now that I finished off my ballpark tour for the moment, I then headed up to Klamath Falls Oregon where I have been hanging out with my brother in-law and sister, enjoying some good beer and taking care of Elvis the dog and doing some weeding. Exciting all around. I've also been persuing some job leads which nothing has broke yet. But I know something will soon. For I will be back working at ballpark before I know it. Till then I'm planning my next ballpark trip. We'll see where it will be.

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