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This is about baseball.
By Bethany | April 20, 2008
This is Hunter Wendelstedt, and I am not a fan. I’m not a baseball kinda gal, but my mom is. So, when hockey season is done and the ice is all melted, we put on our Cincinnati Reds t-shirts and head up to the ballpark. This was my second game this season and we were playing the Milwaukee Brewers. Now, I am a hockey fan, I like contact, hard hits, pushing and shoving, and well, players who care about what their doing. My problem with the Reds goes something like this:
- Ken Griffey Jr. Now, let me get out of this out of the way first. Griffey was good once that time has come and gone. He is now getting paid to be in Cincinnati and is living off his fathers name. I am so sick of Griffey and wish he would retire…maybe it is the hockey girl in me, but I need someone that plays with passion, with fire, and wants to get it done.
- Adam Dunn, there was a time when Adam Dunn would step up to the plate I would get chills, again, that time has come and gone. Argh.
Now todays game was exciting. Dusty Baker came out and yelled at the ump, not once, but twice!! It was very exciting for me, I wanted to see a little pushing and shoving, but apparently baseball players are scared of a little contact so it never happened. But, here is what did happen in the game!
- The Brewers were up 3-1 and I had lost all hope.
- Joey Votto, aka the good Canadian boy whose parents just couldn’t get him on skates soon enough, got a home run to tie the game!!
- The catcher, Paul Bako was kicked out of the game for arguing a call. This was the first time Dusty came out to yell.
- Then, Ryan Freel was a pinch hitter, got some questionable calls and he argued with the
refump, and was immediately thrown out. My moms heart was broken. - The second time Dusty came out to yell at the ump he was emotional, it was fabulous you could see him yelling…again, I was hoping for blood and punches, but whatever, it works.
All in all it was a pretty decent game, but I will close with this quote from the post game recap on the Cincinnati Red’s website:
The Reds also had their first two ejections of the season, as the eighth inning claimed both Paul Bako and Ryan Freel.
When Bako argued balls and strikes with plate umpire Hunter Wendelsted in the eighth, he was ejected. Bako refused to discuss the call or the ejection after the game.
“I think he gave him four warnings,” Baker said. “Bako isn’t like that, so he really must have thought it was a strike. He was adamant.”
In the bottom of the inning, Freel, who was batting for Cueto, argued after he was called out on strikes. Wendelstedt ejected him as well.
I’m glad I could be there for the first two ejections of the season. I suppose it is fitting.
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April 20th, 2008 at 3:16 am
foote still your killin me why dont you put a pic of feds on here since he seems to be lovin the caps so much…im mad at the world right now sorry im venting but please get rid of that pic i hate adam foote
April 20th, 2008 at 3:19 am
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April 20th, 2008 at 3:33 am
YAY!! You’re back Stephen, every post I was like I wonder if I should put out a search for Stephen, cuz he hasn’t posted in a while. Hope you’re doing good!! Anyway here is my response to your comment lol:
Aw! I’m sorry Stephen, my twin (who makes my headers) works for an accountant so she has been super busy!! But hopefully, things will lighten up for her soon!! I will fix it, soon if not, even though my photoshop skills are pretty much nonexistant…although I might be able to put devil horns on Footer…if that might help?
April 20th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I kind of like baseball, especially on a lazy summer day when it’s warm, take the radio out into the boat and listen to Herb Carneal…well I used to listen to him, now it’s just Gordo and Dan Gladden. Fishing and baseball are what Minnesota summers are all about.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
That sounds fun Kirsten, maybe I’d enjoy baseball more if we had a successful team?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:45 am
the horn thing would be…….so perfect until that is the stinking foote is gone thanks for missin me stephen
April 24th, 2008 at 12:13 am
LOL, you’re welcome for missing you.