Hello again!  It’s been a busy week since my last entry.  We have been playing baseball everyday as you all know, but it has been a little different game than in the past for the Scorpions.  We have had a rough season in the Arizona Fall League this year, but in the past week or so the Scottsdale Scorpions have been playing very well. 

 

We had a game go ten and a half innings one night that was shortened when the lights at our stadium shut off.  We were charging with men on first and second, with no outs.  Kevin Frandsen was approaching the plate when out of nowhere the lights all went off at the same time with no warning.  They seemed to have no way to turn the lights on, which was kindof crappy being that we were playing the last half of the last possible inning of play, not to mention we were looking like we would win.  Turns out we are to finish the game before our next meeting with that same team, which I believe is to be Wednesday.  I am looking forward to it being that I am in line for the win!

 

Finally, after being out here for two spring trainings, two instructional leagues, and this season in the AFL, I was able to find a little taste of home.  Yesterday (Sunday) Nascar came to town and raced in Phoenix, and you bet everything you own this south Georgia boy was there!  I have been to several races in my life, but have not been to a Nascar event since 2001 when I got to watch THE MAN Dale Jr. win the Pepsi 400.  Myself and David Herndon made the trip over to Phoenix to watch the guys put on a show.  They did not let us down either.  We saw good hard racing, decently high speeds, several wrecks (face it, everyone enjoys them as long as no one is seriously injured), and I got to see Dale Jr. finish sixth.  He was out of the points race if you look through the math, but I just wanted to see that 88 car fly.  Not only did we get intertained by the race, but Mother Nature decided to show off a little.  We saw almost every type of weather possible on Sunday.  It was warm most of the day, then came the rain, and with the darkness came what felt like a freeze after sitting in the hot Arizona sun for several hours.  All in all it was a good time, and I am thankful to have been able to spend some time in the middle of a bunch of other rednecks.

 

I am still trying to get used to this time change, so I am now going to go to bed.  I couldn’t tell you what time zone we are in now.  I just heard something about us switching time zones, or they moved Arizona over a couple states or something.  Either way I am just hoping my body will catch up.

God Bless!