Last 3 Games in Review. 4/24, 4/25, 4/26
The first game I only got one baseball. A toss up from Astros Pitcher Bud Norris.
The second game I only got one baseball as well. A toss up during the 6th inning by Brewers RF Mark Kotsay.
The third game I had the big goose egg.
The last three games I’ve attended have been packed and I had crappy days. I can’t remember a 3 game span of me doing this bad. BLAH!
Season Total: a lousy 16 after 14 baseballs in my first 2 games.
Games: 5
Season Avg: 3.2
Career Total: 329
Wednesday, April 6th 2011, Brewers V.S. Braves @ Miller Park
My buddy Tim would be attending this game with me and we went to Friday’s before the game for some Brewers batting practice. Only to find out you have to spend a minimum of $50 to sit at an outside table now. We looked at each other and decided we’d do it. We each got drinks, I had a soda and he had a beer. We got and appetizer of Motz Sticks and I ordered a Jack Daniel’s burger and he got a Bacon Cheeseburger. After that we got dessert. I got some oreo cookie ice cream thing and he got a mixed drink! Lol. We ended up spending 60$ between the two of us.
So, I got Brewers pitching coach Rick Kranitz to toss me a baseball right away. The first one he under threw then he got it right to me. That’s BASEBALL #1. The one baseball he under threw landed here:
We went to wait by the LF gate and chatted it up with my buddy Richard who is a Miller Park usher and he told us all about how to get women. It was a funny conversation to say the least. When the gates opened I rushed to the LF bleachers and got nothing. No Easter Eggs or anything and the first group of BP was mostly lefties so I wondered over to RF.
I got to right field and there was maybe 20 people scattered throughout the bleachers. I know people don’t look very hard for baseballs and all the baseballs tend to roll down to the front row. So I walked along the front row and picked up two easter eggs along the way. People standing within 5 feet of both of them and never noticing them. Lucky me! BASEBALL #3 & #4 the really easy way!
When I was up there I saw somebody I knew and started talking to him. As we were talking Jason Heyward hit a ball I knew was going to land 4 rows down from me. I thought my buddy saw it so I did not move. Apparently he didn’t and it bounced off the stairs right back onto the field. I would have caught it. Easily.
After that I moved down into the Tundra Territory to try for a baseball and towards the end of BP I got Braves pitcher Craig Kimbrel to toss me BASEBALL #5 on the day which ended up being my last.
As for Tim, it was his first batting practice and he ended up with two baseballs as well! While successfully ripping a hole in his pants. But he was happy to get two baseballs and I’m sure his son was excited to see when he got home!
Here’s Tim and his Balls!:
Here’s my share:
5 Baseball’s, 3 tossed up, 2 Easter Eggs
Season Total: 14
Games: 2
Season Avg: 7
Career Total: 327
I’ll leave off with a few photos I took. Zach Grienke was out shaggin’ baseballs during BP as well.
Monday, April 4th 2011, Brewers V.S. Braves @ Miller Park
T’was Opening Day in Milwaukee and the air was a little cool. We left to go to Miller Park around 8:30 and it was a 1:00 game. We arrived around 9:15 and waited a good hour to park. After we parked Matt, my Dad, and I went and played some catch by the Harley Davidson Gate. The gates would open at 11:10 and I sprinted up to the LF Bleachers to hear baseballs bouncing off the bleachers. It was music to my ears.
I quickly picked up a Casey McGehee homer that was rattling in the seats and as I was picking that one up I found another baseball just chillin under a bleacher. That put me at BASEBALL #1 & BASEBALL #2 for the day. Great start not even being in the stadium for 2 minutes and locking up some baseballs on the day!
Shortly after that, Casey McGehee hit a BP homer that I ended up catching on the fly. After I caught that baseball, I looked down the row and noticed 2 Easter Eggs staring at me so I walked over and picked those up. Another 3 baseballs in the sack for BASEBALL #3,#4, and #5. I have never gotten more than 2 baseballs on Opening Day so I was jacked. Some lefties came up so I made my move to the RF Bleachers!
Once I made my way up to the bleachers. After around 5 minutes I ended up making a nice catch leaning over the railing, getting a kudos from Kameron Loe and Zach Braddock. I’m not sure who hit it. It was one of our lefties either Reed or Kotsay. So I was at BASEBALL #6 and I still wanted more.
I ended up asking newly acquired Pitcher Sergio Mitre for a baseball in Spanish and he tossed it up to me to put me at BASEBALL #7 on the day and then the Brewers ran off the field. It was the Braves turn to take some BP.
They didn’t hit much up but I got Jonny Venters and Scott Linebrink to each toss me a baseball to get me BASEBALL #8 & #9 and that was it for the day. 
Some of the Packers threw out the first pitch and the Brewers lost 2-1 in the home opener. Were 0-4 but we’ll get back on track.
During the 6th and 7th inning I went with my dad to visit one of his bosses and he bought my Dad and I a beer! Good Man! He’s a Cubs fan but it’s all good. I mentioned to him I’ve never been to Wrigley and he said he’d try and get tickets! He also has a son who I think he said was 15 who I’m gonna bring along to a game one time. Try and teach him the art of catching baseballs.
9 Baseball’s, 3 Batted (2 on the fly), 3 Toss up’s, 3 Easter Eggs.
Season Total: 9
Games: 1
Season Avg: 9
Career Total: 322
2011 Predictions
I saw a few other people make their predictions. I decided I’d jump in on the bandwagon and throw in my predictions.
National League:
NL West:
1) San Francisco Giants
2) LA Dodgers
3) Colorado Rockies
4) San Diego Padres
5) Arizona Diamondbacks
NL East:
1) Philadelphia Phillies
2) Atlanta Braves
3) Florida Marlins
4) Washington Nationals
5) New York Mets
NL Central:
1) Milwaukee Brewers
2) Cincinnati Reds
3) St. Louis Cardinals
4) Chicago Cubs
5) Houston Astros
6) Pittsburgh Pirates
NL Wild Card:
Atlanta Braves
American League:
AL West:
1) Texas Rangers
2) LA Angels
3) Oakland A’s
4) Seattle Mariners
AL East:
1) New York Yankees
2) Boston Red Sox
3) Tampa Bay Rays
4) Baltimore Orioles
5) Toronto Blue Jays
AL Central:
1) Minnesota Twins
2) Chicago White Sox
3) Detroit Tigers
4) Kansas City Royals
5) Cleveland Indians
AL Wild Card:
Boston Red Sox
My World Series Prediction is Philles V.S. Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox win in 7 games.
My 2010 Year In Review
I attended 41 games in 2010. I had a good season with 3 game Home Runs,
159 baseballs on the year to Avg: 3.88/Game and reached 300+ career
baseballs. Out of the 41 games I went 20-21 for the teams I was rooting
for. Obviously the Brewers every game I saw them and a few games in
Chicago, Minnesota, Baltimore, and Cincinnati. I have now gotten a
baseball from 6 different Major League Stadiums and hopefully counting. I
had many great things happen this year as well like playing catch with
Jeremy Jeffress and getting his hat, Weeks & Hart’s batting gloves.
I had my high at the beginning of the year with my Weeks Homerun catch in the 2nd game of the season making Sportscenter and the game highlights. That was quite the experience. Here’s the catch: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7294831
Next
year I would like to visit Pittsburgh, Florida, Kansas City and St.
Louis. Stadium’s I’ve already been to I’d like to hit up Cincinnati,
Chicago, Minnesota, Baltimore and of course Milwaukee again. Not all of
those places will happen but I will try to get at least 6 or 7 of the 10
or so listed. So, until Brewers on Deck or the Arctic Tailgate and
Opening Day 2011. I’m done blogging until next year. I’m easing up on
the ball hawking next year as well. Time to go snowboarding!
GO BREWERS!
Sunday, October 3 2010, Brewers V.S. Reds @ Great American Ballpark
Once again today I woke up at 7 with the intentions of playing catch with Brewers Pitcher Jeremy Jeffress:
After the game Jeremy Jeffress tossed me his hat and I got Corey Hart and Rickie Weeks batting gloves. It was the best day of my life. I can’t thank Jeremy Jeffress enough.
2 Baseball’s, Catch with? haha
Season Total: 159
Games: 41
Season Avg: 3.88
Career Total: 313
Saturday, October 2 2010, Brewers V.S. Reds @ Great American Ballpark
Today started similar as yesterday. I would get up at 7 to go to the players entrance and try and get me some autographs. I ended up getting Prince Fielder, Carlos Gomez, Lorenzo Cain, and Rickie Weeks on my Game Homer from earlier this year.
There would be no batting practice today but I walked into the Stadium and picked up 6 baseballs laying on the ground and then got Manny Parra to toss me a baseball to put me at BASEBALL #7 on the day. It would turn out to be a cold day and would rain during the game. Our view for the game was the same as yesterday. After the game Kenny and I went to White Castle and went to Cold Stone Creamery.
I forgot to cover on this in the blog from yesterday. During yesterday’s game this is what the scoreboard looked like for 5 innings:
Can you see it? I’ll zoom in a bit:
That there reads the “Milwaukee Astros” basically. They ended up changing it midway through the game. The Astros were in town the night before.
7 Baseball’s , 6 easter eggs, 1 toss up
Season Total: 157
Games: 40
Season Avg: 3.93
Career Total: 311
Week in Review 9/20/10-9/25/10, Brewers V.S. Reds & Marlins
The week started with me texting my cousin Wiley asking him how many baseballs he guessed I’d get from game to game. Most of the games he was right in guessing. We had fun with that. Anyways Monday (9/20) Matt and I went to Brewers BP as usual. I got Brewers September call up Jeremy Jeffress to toss me a baseball as well as Reds Edinson Volquez when the gates opened. During Reds bp I caught one on the fly and picked one up as it was bouncing around the bleachers putting me at 4 on the day.
After getting 13 the day before I had a hunch that today would be some type of hangover. Yeah, it was. I got a toss up from Alcides Escobar at Friday’s and a Reds pitcher tossed me up a baseball after I was lining up to catch a ball off the bat in the bleachers and some random guy came over and swated it before it hit my glove. Nick stuck up for me and the Reds players were a bit confused as to why he did it and tossed me a ball. So I only ended up with 2 on the day. 
The next day we went was Thursday and I was hoping for a better day than the 2 that I had the day before. I got Burke Badenhop to toss me up a baseball as well as old Brewer Mike Rivera, and Marlins OF Cameron Maybin and Pitcher Jose Ceda after Lorenzo Cain under threw me in the Tundra Section in the first inning. I ended at 4 on the day to end it. The Brewers Sausages decided to race on some Harley’s as well before the game. Haha!
The last day out of this home stand attending BP was the Saturday home game against the Marlins. (9/25) We got sat under the overhang in Friday’s. A ball got hit in the net and I proceeded to do all I could to try and get the baseball. After Brewers P Mark Rogers saw me struggling he tossed me a ball, but in that time I was trying to use Matt’s glove to grab the baseball out of the net because it was longer and I ended up catching Rogers toss up in Matt’s glove. I thought that was funny. I thought I was going to drop it. I then took a menu to the ball in the net and rolled the ball up as far as I could and grabbed it. During Marlins BP I ended up catching a Cameron Maybin BP HR on the fly and got Pitcher Burke Badenhop to toss me another baseball for the 2nd straight day. 4 to end the series in Milwaukee for the year.
27 baseballs in the homestand, 7 easter eggs, 11 toss up’s, 9 batted up.
Season Total: 145
Games: 38
Season Avg: 3.82
Career Total: 299…
Good thing I have a trip to Cincinnati to see the Brewers play the reds left being stuck at 299 career baseballs. Jeremy Jeffress told me he’d play catch with me in Cin so hopefully that racks me up Baseball 300!
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