I’ve been asked so many times why I attend so many games. I’ve been asked by front office officials, family, friends even some of the players.
It’s really a funny story. At least to me.
It all started in my genes. See my family is very baseball oriented, we revolve around games and even our family trips have to include a new ballpark. Crazy? not to us. It’s the most natural of things…I just seem to be the one that takes everything a further step ahead of the crowd….and no it doesnt involve my Jimmy Choo’s and a Marlins rain-delay…It comes down to my sports psych major and a minor in broadcasting. See, my dream is to be the next Debbie Taylor (you’ll know who that is if you’re a Nationals fan) or for a Marlins Fan, the next Craig Minervini. But, I have never been the competitive type so relying on my passion for psychology results as my best bet.
I am moving later on this year to Chicago to focus estrictly on my education. Hopefully the Cubs and White Sox will be my first professional experience. It’ll be great to start off my career within organizations with so much history and passion, even though, I will someday (dream?) work for MLB which will include my Florida Marlins.
Now, my first place Marlins? How about that? I love how this team has developed over the off season and how they have showed maturity during games and off the field. It seems like the youngest boys in baseball, are well…grown. Scott Olsen has learned to control emotions and pitch one heck of a ballgame making him our go-to starter. Mark Hendrickson has been more than a pleasant surprise, Andrew Miller has struggled but has shown signs of breaking through the slump ,Ricky Nolasco has been well, ok…and newly promoted Bandenhop has to develop. Somehow, the boys have hung in first place fpr pretty much the whole month in a tough NL East. I think what’s working for us in timely clutch hitting (like Andino’s walk-off blast to beat the Mets) and patient hitting (we have loaded the bases so many times this year, it’s almost funny). I give a lot of credit to Matt Treanor and Mike Rabelo for calling great games and showing maturity in a still relatively young clubhouse. Do we miss Cabrera? who wouldnt? but we have surfaced a new homerun heroes in Hanley Ramirez and Mike Jacobs. Uggla has had a slow start but slowly regaining shape with his extra base sass.
Hopefully it’ll be an interesting ballclub to watch, because it has been so far. 🙂
As for the Cubs, how about that infield? Wow. It seems like something out of a baseball dream, and they have one great, marvalous problem, their bench SS is batting .375. Thats the recent bat of Ronny Cedeno who’s been getting the call from Piniella at 2B.
Derek Lee who I saw play many times while in Florida has truly taken a leader form in 2008, followed by their third baseman Aramis Ramirez. Even though, I personally like Cedeno better at SS than Ryan Theriot I feel like Theriot is clutch. He’s a decent hitter, with decent spped and decent range defensively….why not start them both?
I feel bad for DeRosa because with Soriano back from the DL, there’s truly no space for him unless you platoon him. BUT you’re talking about a career .280 hitter with great defensive skills. I think the Cubs need to make some sort of trade before the July deadline. I’m not even going to address the Fontenot case.
I really like Ryan Dempster as a starter. I feel like he has blossomed as the pitcher everyone expected him to be, instead of being a closer or in the bullpen. I like the pitcher Carlos Marmol has turned out to be, and I like Kerry Wood as a closer. I think with all his latest injuries… enabling Wood to at least one inning of work is the best case for him as a player, the DL list of the Chicago Cubs and Cubs fans.
I’ll be at Wrigley for the Dodgers Series and I CANNOT wait!!!!!!!!!!!
Love & Teal Baseball, tinted by Wrigley Blue,
C <333