Some thoughts....

It's funny that this time when there are basball jobs open, I'm not looking for them. Maybe a good paying has something to do with it.

That there is something wrong with the fact that gallon of milk cost just as much or more than a six pack of beer.
That you shouldn't pass up a chance to exchange contact info when you meet somebody cool on a flight. Instead of letting the opportunity pass

That the fall and playoff baseball is the best time of the year.

It's almost time to pull out the snowboard and get some wax on the board and shred some gnar.

It's almost time for a new computer.

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.

I've escaped!

Well after being in one place for roughly the last two years or so, 'm finnally getting out of Mammoth for good. (Or at least the summer) I haven't quite figured out what I am doing next. Y
ellowstone is a definite possibility, or maybe something else different. Who knows what exactly I will be doing this summer. But it will be something cool, in a very cool place. Before I know it, something will fall into place. Tell then I'm starting this years search for the best ballpark, beer and pizza for the year. First stop is Visaila.

I've got the book.

Now that I have the book. It's time to start planning the first baseball game of the season. With the Directory I can plan in earnest my first baseball game of the season. Which I have several possibilities of. Right now I think the first few games are going to be in Northern Califorina. I think there will be several games with cities that start with S. Citie's like Stockton, Sacramento, San Jose??, and few others cities that don't start with S. It's going to be fun to hang out the ballpark for a few days on my way out of Mammoth to my next destination. Where ever that maybe.

In case if you didn't know...

In case if you didn't know it's only one week from the greatest day of the year! Opening day of the baseball season.

Things to do...

Things I want to do or see happen this year or sometime in the near future

See lot’s of baseball games this summer…We’ll see what the final number is. Over under is 10 for the season.

Write and get published somewhere…

Get back to working in baseball, this is going to happen, the question is when and where. For I will be at the baseball winter meetings in Nashville, if nothing else fails.

See one of my favorite people come to Christ , what this will take and when this will happen and what’s going to happen in between only God knows. It’s been an interesting journey so far.

See Dream Theater in concert. I’ve been close to seeing them a few times, but something always comes up. I am going to see them in concert.

Figure out what I’m going to do next, the rest of things I want to do will fall into place after that.

baseball and waiting

Have you ever felt like you know what you want to do, but yet you are so far away. It's frustrating. For myself I want to be back working around the ballpark this summer and of right now. It's not likely to be happening this summer. As the job I appiled for with the Stockton ports baseball club was outsourced to a food company. I'm okay with it, because obiviously it's not the right timing to get back in the game. But it doesn't mean it's frustrating to say the least.
I guess frustrating is a good mood to describe my mood latley. For i've been frustated in this thing called a realationship and friendship. For I'm just waiting for something to happen along with this guy called Jesus but it feels like, nothing is going to break along this front. Which ties into the whole relationship thing, which has been leaving me quite frustrated. Some how I've got the feeling that a lot the second of part will take care of it's self when the first part is figured out. Though it doesn't mean it's easy by any means and of course it is frustrating. Till things break in some fashion, I'll just keep waiting for the first game of the year.

Baseball and sanity.

With the opening of spring training the countdown to opening day of baseball season is really upon us. For me the year really begins in April when baseball season begins and summer truly doesn't begin for me until I have gotten to the first baseball game of the year. When I think about baseball and how it relates to my life and how important it is too me. And the fact I live in a ski town where if it doen't revolve around the mountain it doesn't matter. At times I feel like nobody gets it. There is more to life than snowboarding. I could go on about this topic but that's another post. The same could easily be said for baseball, but this my sanity damn it. And that's what I'm writing about. How baseball is keeping me sane. Wheather it be in relationships, life circumstances and other events. Like day eight of eleven of a Habitat for Humanity trip.
This has got to be one of the best escapes that I've ever had. After eight long days of spending every waking moment with each other, it was time for break before somebody got killed and on this trip to Mississipi one of the people that we had met. Had season tickets for the Mississippi State baseball team along with all the other major sports there too. And it didn't take long to arrange a trip up there. And after an enjoyable day at the ballpark, some awesome BBQ.(they truly know how to do BBQ in the south. ) and picking up some amazing baked goods to take back to the rest the group. That game was much need dose of sanity in the middle of a Habitat trip. And it really helped keep the sanity when on our last flight home we landed at the air force base in my home town and had to be escorted back to home by the air force. It was a crazy way to end the trip let me tell you.
And then's there the matter of relationships and baseball. And times for me baseball has been an escape, refuge and some of the only things that make sense to me when I'm trying to figure out relationships and girls. Most of the time I just stick with baseball for it's a whole lot less confusing and it's something that I can understand and it doesn't let me down or reject me like people will.
Especially lately, where my relationship have been frustrating, confusing, bewildering and to the point of wondering if anything I have done matters. And really the wonderment of what is it going to take to her to come to christ. Sometimes when I think about it, can I just head to a baseball game to help figure it out, at least give me a little piece of sanity and grace.
And for this summer I hope to get way more than four games this. I hoping at least 70 plus games this year. Because that means I'll be back working in the game. For I recently appiled for the Stockon, Ca Ports Director of Food and Beverage position and I so want to be back in game combing my passion for food and baseball. That's what I want to do for the summer. And for the relationship stuff at the moment I think I'll stick with baseball. Sometimes it's easier that way.

87 days!

There's only 87 days left until opening day of the baseball season!