One day down, six to go

I am minding my own business sleeping when the phone rings. It becomes a part of my dream for a minute. I incorporate it to being a fax machine that is ringing and someone asks about the ring, because it was waking them up. I said it is a fax machine and soon it will stop ringing. Then I realize it was the phone and I answer it. Grandpa was talking to me, and I really cannot remember the conversation until the part where I look at the alarm clock and it said seven-fifty-eight am. I was like “It is eight o’clock in the morning!” Grandpa laughed. So he said he would call me back around nine for breakfast. I went back to sleep for a little bit when my cell phone rang. It was Nick from PFD. He wanted to see if I was going to be in town working tonight. I told him I was in San Diego. I tried to sleep some more and finally Grandpa called back because it was nine o’clock am.

I walked across the parking lot to get some breakfast. I had some waffles and juice. Several guys from the team was there and we chatted for a while. Our first and only game was at two o’clock pm. But we wanted to see the Rockets, another Seattle team play. They played at noon. So we left around eleven in the morning. I got my uniform on and we drove to the field. We walked to where the Rockets were playing. I sat there watching their games as over the next thirty minutes the others from our team showed up.

At one o’clock we started to warm up, stretch, throw the ball, and do some batting practice. I pitched most of it. Then we went to the field to wait for our game to start. The game before us was running really late and we sat around for almost thirty minutes waiting our turn. Finally we took the field. We were hitting first. We, as a team, were hitting the ball well. Our fielding was sucking hind-titty though. They hit around on us in the first inning but only ended up with four runs out of the deal. We went on to beat them twenty-four to seven. So it was not really that close. I had five at bats. I made no outs. I had only one hit that was a good hit to the outfield. I had a couple find a whole in the infield and make it out there. It was not a great day at the plate for me.

After the game we went to the hotel and cleaned up. Then Grandpa, Robert, and I went to Hamburger Mary’s for lunch. It is a large bar and grill. It is located in the “Hillcrest” area of San Diego which would be the same as Capitol Hill in Seattle. And for those our side of both those areas, it is the gay district. There were a lot of rainbow flags everywhere.

From there we walked to this local clothing store. Very expensive stuff. Jean’s that cost two hundred plus. Not for me, thank you. I will stick to my Levi’s. From there we walked up to a coffee house. They got coffee and I got myself a hot chocolate, as I am not a coffee drinking.

We had about an hour and a half before we were going to go out as a team. So we came back to the hotel. I took the car and Kyle and Rich to the store to get some hard-a. I picked up some pain killers for my ankle. Then I stopped at AM/PM for some pop. We came back to the hotel and I met up with Grandpa and Robert to go to Martini’s for meeting up with the team. We hung out there for about an hour and a half. There were not a lot of people there from the tournament. So we went to a place called Flicks. It was packed in there. It was like a meat market. It was like everyone there was looking for a guy to take home for the night.

They did a version of the Dating Game. They had one guy who got to choose from three other guys dating game style. He asked them questions. What was funny is that one of the guys from my team was up there. At the end of the question/answer period the audience was asked who he should pick. Most people thought number three should have been picked. But the guys from my team and from his team were all holding up two fingers as he was getting to choose. And he went with them, so the guy from my team was chosen. They got to see each other. They hugged and won a date to some fancy place.

We left a little bit after that Dating Game and went to Jack in the Box from some night ending chow before heading back to the hotel. It was a full day. I am really tired from being in the hot sun without much shade for a lot of the day. I am ready to hit the hay.