LaRoche Brothers

This weekend series against the San Francisco Giants. Adam and Andy LaRoche both batted horrible.

Adam LaRoche
Fri 7/17- 0 for 5 and 2 strikeouts
Sat 7/18- 0 for 3 and 1 strikeout
Sun 7/19- 1 for 4 and 1 strikeout
Series 1 for 12 and 4 strikeouts
So far in July Adam has an average that is UNDER .100
Also in July Adam has only 5 hits. That is terrible.

Andy LaRoche
Fri 7/17- 0 for 5 and 3 strikeouts
Sat 7/18- 1 for 3 and 1 RBI and no strikeouts
Sun 7/19- 1 for 3 and a walk
Series 2 for 11 and 3 strikeouts
In July Andy has an average that is UNDER .200

Anyways, I think Adam is better than Andy because Adam is one of the best fielders in the MLB, I don't remember that last time he made an error, and Adam has more power than Andy.

Combined in this recent series the LaRoche brother batted 3 for 23 with 7 strikeouts.

7/17/09- Pirates vs. Giants

One word will sum up this whole day for me, and that word is FRUSTRATION. Well, first the picture below is a new hotel near PNC Park, and Pittsburgh DOES NOT need it.

I had 6 chances to get a ball at this game. Want to know how many I got? Well then read on.
Before I got in line at the gate, I walked into Diamond Club Pizza (yum!) and saw if they were gonna have BP,

and YES they were!
Ok, I usually take pictures of BP of the players who give me a ball, well I had 4 chances to get a ball in BP, and I came up dry. First chance was a ball thrown by Evan Meek went over my head, and some guy came up with it. Second chance was a ball thrown by Garret Jones (Best Pirate right now) went over my head bounced right next to me, and a guy picked up the ball just before I did. Third chance was when the gate to Section 142 opened at 5:30, I looked down into Section 141, and I saw a ball in the front row, so I hurried to Section 141, before anyone else could get the ball, but someone did.Fourth chance was a ball that was by the wall in left field, NO Giants player would pick up the ball, and throw it, so a cop went over picked up the ball, and gave it to a kid. After BP I went to my seat, and it began to rain.

The picture above was taken before the rain started, look at the clouds on the top left corner of the picture. Then around 6:30 it started to rain.

A little bit after 7, they took the tarp of the field.

The new game time was 7:50. The next picture is the first pitch from my seat.

Section 127 Row F Seat 13, good seat.
Great seat for foul balls, and a good part of this game was gettin' to see Tim Lincecum pitch.


Okay, I moved around THE WHOLE GAME to try and get a ball, I left my seat durin' the stretch, and moved to the left field bleachers to try and get a warm-up ball from Brandon Moss. Well in the 9th (I think) a foul ball was hit.
Guess where it went, into the SECTION 127!!!!!!!!
Also in the 9th, Brandon Moss, threw the warm-up near me, I stuck my glove up in the air, and someone, probably around the same age as me, put his glove in front of mine and caught the ball, so that was 6 chances I had to catch a ball, and I got 0! I was so mad, only because this was my first game in over a month, and I was so sure that I was gonna have a good day. Well it was a good day because the Pirates won the game 2-1, off of 2 Garret Jones solo homeruns! I left in the bottom of the 10th becuase, I was FRUSTRATED that I didnt get a ball all day. I got home before the game ended, and I watched in the 14th when Jones hit that 2nd homerun to win the game.

Season
-7 balls
-5 games
- 1.4 average

Next game, either July 22nd vs. Brewers, or July 31st vs. Nationals, or August 6th vs. Diamondbacks.

2009 MLB All-Star Game/HR Derby

All-Star Game
The AL wins the 2009 All-Star game, 4-3 in St. Louis. Carl Crawford of the Tampa Bay Rays won the MVP award. The All-Star game was OK, the bad part was that the NL did not put in the 2 Pirates players that were in it (Freddy Sanchez, Zach Duke).

HR Derby
Prince Fielder won the Homerun Derby. My pick, Adrain Gonzalez, only hit 2 homeruns. Brandon Inge put up a goose egg, I think someone other than Inge should have been in the HR Derby a player like Aaron Hill(TOR) or Jason Bay (BOS). I thought the Derby was alright, last year's was better.

Joe Sakic Retires

NHL legend (and future Hall Of Famer) Joe Sakic retires. Sakic who played in the NHL for 20 years. Sakic played 1378 career games, had 625 goals, 1016 assists, for a total of 1641 points. Sakic also had 188 points in 172 career playoff games. I believe his best season was the 95/96 season where he had a career high 120 points with 51 goals and 69 assists. He is currently 8th on the NHL all time scorin' list. He was a captain for 17 of his 20 NHL seasons. He played in 12 NHL All-Star games.



Check out NHL.com for more news.

Penguins DVD/Tyler Kennedy's Autograph

I went to the Robinson Mall, to buy the Penguins Championship DVD, and if you bought it at Dick's, you got a wristband, and you could get your copy of the DVD signed by Tyler Kennedy.
Below is my DVD cover with Kennedy's autogrpah.


And below are 2 random pictures of Tyler Kennedy while he was interviewed.

Injury!

I fainted and I fell into a tree. Its a long story.
But I did catch a fish with a stick that was shaped like a J.

An Ok 4th Of July

I had an ok 4th of July, I didnt buy fireworks this year, but I did find some in my room. I did some "expirements" with some fireworks. I had an firework called "The Mini Monster" and it was the only firework worth takin' a picture of. Here is it below.

*thats my parents' bird bath next to it*

Happy 4th of July everybody!