The First Few Days

I apologize for not keeping this updated over that past few days, but we have been extremely busy with games and traveling, so I am going to fill y'all in on the things that have happened since the last post!

First off, the y'all is starting to kick in with being in the south over the past few days, so bare with me, it's kind of a habit right now! Our second game was another great experience at the Fort Worth Cats, of the Independent League, which we arrived around 3:30pm from our car ride from Dallas, which was around an hour drive with traffic. With a small stadium of only 4,000 seats, the Fort Worth Cats packed in around 5,000 people with standing room only, to see the Famous San Diego Chicken. Again, my duties have been to just get into the flow of things and to become aquainted with the way the system works. The game, and our show was great into which the Fort Worth Cats defeated the Pensacola Pelicans, 18-6.

After the game, we packed all of our equipment; let's just say that there are 5 crew members, all of our luggage, including personal bags totals 10 pieces of checked luggage for flights (2 per person) and 10 pieces of carry-on luggage (2 per person). It is quite a bit of stuff, but it makes the show happen and without all of it, we would not be able to be the best in-game entertainment in the country.

We worked our way to the hotel around 12:30 am (the usual time we get out of a ballpark), checked into room 1308, on the 13th floor, on Friday the 13th, and we were all starving. Kind of ironic, we all thought so. Unfortunately, most places are only open until midnight, so Dominos Pizza was the only alternative. We checked into the Marriott in downtown Fort Worth and did not get to sleep until 2:30am, once we ate and settled down, but knowing that we had a 8:00am taxi cab ride to Dallas Love Field Airport, to catch our 10:00am flight to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was a great flight in which was only 50 minutes long, but I slept for the entire thing :)

Once we got aquainted at the airport, 2 individuals from the Oklahoma Red Hawks picked us up, we checked into the Holiday Inn, ate a little lunch at Sonic, which was right across from our hotel and then we worked our way to the ballpark around 3:30pm to get prepared for our show.

This show was a little different however. It seemed that as if everybody was just going through the motions and the sound guy for the Red Hawks screwed up the music tracks for a few of the inning breaks, which effects the whole inning break, but after 3 straight games with a lot of traveling, it was bound to play an impact on all of us, especially since we are not used to the whole thing as of just yet. We left the ballpark again around midnight and had to eat pizza again at 1am!

Today, June 15, 2008, we actually have a day off and we are going to hang out in Oklahoma City, catch a ballgame at the Red Hawks to where we can just be fans for once. We were supposed to travel to Des Moines, Iowa today, but with the massive flooding and damage to their community we are going to hold off and see what their front office would like us to do since we do not want to make the trip and have no fans to entertain.

I will be sure to keep you posted since we have only 2 games, one in Des Moines, Iowa at the Iowa Cubs (the Triple-A offiliate of the Chicago Cubs) on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 and then one in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Salt Lake Bees (the Triple-A offiliate of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) on Saturday June 21, 2008.

Keep in touch, God Bless, and I will talk to all of you shortly!