Last night’s game was delayed by weather, so the game today started out to be a game and a half. The fact that it was between the two teams that call the place home was an added bonus.
The sky just opened up in a Biblical way, and now it will get interesting to see what happens next. This photo was in hopes of showing just how hard it’s raining 🌧.Hammerheads logo on the left (Marlins affiliate) and Palm Beach Cardinals on the right.
The parks in this league double as the spring training facilities for the East Coast. [Grapefruit League ]
More 2 follow….
Update from Omaha, 8th inningWhen you’re in a rain delay, search out the Mascot(s)
The other game slated for this coast has been washed out ( St Lucie ).
Dinosaur 🦕🦖🐲🦕 = Pretty Cool
Final from Omaha in Game 1 of the Championship series ( 2 of 3)
Earned 56 Google Points !
The young ones are digging the Dinosaur 🦕 ! Look, an archeology joke 😃 !!!
Play finally resumed long enough to complete the suspended game, but they didn’t start the regular game.
When you consider that the suburb of Fayetteville, Arkansas is both the home of Tyson Foods and the headquarters for Wal-Mart, is nearby, it comes as a pleasant surprise that the Northwest Arkansas Naturals rely upon baseball to be enough to get folks to come out to their ballyard.
A large number of ballparks have moved in the direction of how many bells 🔔 and whistles can we add, but the AA farm club is comfortable with Americas past time being enough.
The lone exception is the scoreboard, which is the size of a double wide trailer.
$6.00 to park and a nice variety of ticket prices await you if you’re in the neighborhood.
23 miles is all that separates Constellation Field, home of the AAA Sugar Land Space Cowboys and the Astros MLB stadium 🏟.
When you finally get ” The Call 📞 ” to the Show ” its a local call. Seattle and Tacoma have a similar situation out in the Pacific Northwest.
Getting to Round Rock, Texas earlier today completed the Class AAA Baseball ⚾️ Loop and the goal now for me is to not create any more Loops !!!
The AAA trek absolutely happened by accident over the years, until the past few weeks. Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Sugar Land and Round Rock were the remaining ones. Easy enough to finish off.
Softball is a more enjoyable watch for me but there’s something about the individualality ( not sure if that’s a real word) of the Baseball parks, at all levels.
MLB, AAA and four of the Class A leagues are among the 100+ ball parks that I’ve attended and each one is different from the previous ones.
Round Rock, home 🏡 of the Nolan Ryan Express.Albuquerque, New MexicoEl Paso wins the Award for most original ways to feed their Fans !
In a few hours it will be an Early Bird 🐦 flight ✈️ out of Houston, 5am departure might be way to early Bird….
A quick stop ✋ over at Duke University and an important trip to The Hill on Thursday morning 🌄.
Cool 😎 Scoreboard, rivals the one they have in Nashville…
Some of the Treks :
ACC Basketball 🏀 arenas
ACC Football Stadiums 🏟
Major League and AAA Baseball ⚾️
All 41 NCAA Football 🏈 games
61 years of Duke University Football Bowl 🏈 games – easier than you think being there has only been 11.
Every golf ⛳ course in the Old Dominon, playing each that I could talk my way on to.
Visiting all 50 🇺🇲 States in the same calendar 📅 year.
WNBA arenas
Each college in the Commonwealth where Basketball 🏀 is played.
Proof of that one, which was actually enjoyable !
It’s time to collect the final 7,000 steps 🚶♂️ needed to keep the streak of 20K everyday going so its a great stopping point.
Mississippi State University pilfered the University of Virginia Baseball program, then UVA did the same to Duke University and now we wait to see how Duke rebounds. Hopefully they can break the trend of hiring a current Head Coach that will trigger a complete rebuild.
Mississippi State is in a better position now to challenge for a Natty. Virginia is in a better position to play on as Big of a stage that the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke is the next domino in this process.
Pollard left Appalachian State University for the opportunity to work his magic on a bigger stage. Coach put Duke on the baseball map but it wasn’t a quick fix as it took the better part of a decade.
Carla Williams, Athletic Director at UVA, did her job and then some by replacing a Icon of the game with a proven commodity in Pollard. Now its time for her Duke counterpart to do the same.
Things like this happen all the time in College Football with the most recent Big Time example was when Nick Saban retired from Alabama. The Crimson Tide plucked their next Head Coach from the Washington Huskies. UW had just fell to Michigan in the National Championship game but was forced into a near complete rebuild by the time the final domino fell.
Welcome 🙏 to the world 🌎 of Big Time College sports, it’s here to stay. But if you are a fan of College Baseball ⚾️, which I am, its a good thing to be on the front page of the Business section of the NCAA.
The road less traveled ! 