It was an absolutely wonderful, made-to-order weekend, an off-time buffet of my favorite things in life - baseball (who would've guessed that?), Five Guys, Brusters Ice Cream (one of the greatest creations of the last 100 years!), Guitar Hero, and more baseball.
It's possible I may just forget I have a job to go back to. Hold on... I'm getting an email... it's a bill. Oh right, THAT'S why I work!
Well, at the very least, I'll be spending the first part of this week dreaming about GABA 2010. For those of you joining this blog in-progress, the GABA is my dream/insane lab-concocted plan to see every full season pro baseball team, major AND minor league, at home in 2010.
It's 150 games in less than 6 months. Yes, it's madness. Yes, it would require a lot of help from companies willing to sponsor the Great American Baseball Adventure.
But it's got me in full-blown dream mode... and you know how dangerous that can be.
There's a mock 2009 version of this trip in a previous blog entry. And if that mock trip were the real GABA, we would've just seen the Buffalo Bisons (Mets AAA) beat the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Phillies AAA) 3-0, a five-hit shutout started by a 24-year-old, German-born right hander named Tobi Stoner. (Bisons coaches Carlos Garcia and Dave Hollins were inducted into the Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame, for those of you who love those obscure early 90s baseball names).
This morning, my wife and I would be settling into our seats in Rochester, NY to see the Red Wings (Twins AAA) rumble with the Syracuse Chiefs (Nationals AAA, although one could argue the Nats themselves are a AAA team). 12:05PM Eastern first pitch. We'd both have Red Schoendienst magnets, this afternoon's giveaway. And we'd probably both be really, really tired after seeing 100+ games already, but somehow, that wouldn't matter.
Syracuse would be tomorrow's stop, then New Hampshire, then Portland Maine, etc.
It's all still a dream right now. But with many minor league teams releasing 2010 schedules in the last few weeks, it's one step closer to reality.
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