4-17-11                               Cubs vs Rockies Game 3

Weather: 68 degrees, cloudy.
Wind: 29 mph, L to R.
T: 3:42.
Att: 42,212

                At this point in this series the Rockies and Cubs are tied at 1-1.

      First bobblehead game of the year and it’s a cool one. Lots of folks showed up early. They showed up early because it’s the Ubaldo Jimenez commerative no-hitter bobblehead and there’s only 10,000 of them. 

                                                   Hunter and I got ours 

We sort of missed our chance to go onto the field for autographs so we stayed in the pavilion for batting practice.

   Gary X has proved to me in a very short time that he is a master at autograph collecting. 

Staying turned out to a wise move as I snagged my first homerun ball on the fly. I can’t tell you how good it felt and it was a nice catch to boot. In my head it was nice to know I still got it. I gave that ball away to a little guy there with his folks.

Once again Hunter showed his Pops how it’s done and by the end of BP he managed to snag four baseballs, two of which he gave away to young Rockies fans. Hunter “gets it” and I couldn’t be more proud of my guy.

                                         Here are a few pre-game shots.

                                                    Best shorts of the game.

                                         Some VERY cool dudes I work with.

                                Captain Earthman trying to “Phone Home”

                             Here are the game shots in absolutely no order.

                                                I LOVE THIS SHOT

                                              I call this one “Flying Cargo”.

                   Here’s a breakdown of the Helton/Herrera collision over by first base.

 

                                        I see this at every game. So here’s:

                    “That person who wears a Broncos shirt to a Rockies game”

                               I’m sure I’ll have at least one of these a game for ya.

In what was a tied game going into the 8th inning. The Rockies decided it was time to end the stalemate and opened up a can of something?

Rockies scored four runs to make the score 9-5. Huston Street did what he normally does in the ninth, and the Rockies take two out of three from the Chicago Cubs.

                                                   Take that Cubs fans!

                     Here’s Homeboy Tom Helmer doing what he normally does.

                                                        GO TOM!! 

      

I recently did a phone interview with Michael Posner who works in the Commissioners Office. It was arranged by Sarah Leer of MLB.

Michael is the Program Director for the Baseball Authentication Program for Major League Baseball.
 I have wanted to interview a Baseball Authenticator for a long time and with the help of Queen Geri and Sarah, Michael and I had very informative chat for about twenty minutes.

In the near future I hope to actually chat with a Baseball Authenticator that works at Coors Field and get a feel for what he does. I plan to do this blog entry in two parts so look for Part 1 in the near future. 

Great stuff about baseball authentication… Really nice guy, I learned a lot from Michael.

         I”m “D” The Rockpile Ranter and if you haven’t noticed I’m upping my game.

I’m thinking about giving “Live Blogging” another shot. I’m a little better prepared this time so we’ll see how it goes.

                                                       GO ROCKIES…”D”