Here are some pics from the Twins game Beno and I attended last Wednesday afternoon. We sat in the middle of the first row of section 117, which are very nice seats.
The pictures will help give you an idea of how close we were to the action as well. Unfortunately, the lighting in the dome is not that good so action shots didn't turn out too well.
Mauer didn't play so there are no pictures of him. I focused on Morneau (Gina's favorite), Nathan (my favorite) and Liriano. The game was great and it was nice to hang out with Ben for an afternoon.
Oddly, the most interesting part of the game came when I got home though. There was a voicemail for me from a friend of mine that I played college ball with at NDSU. He lives in Texas now and I happened to randomly run into him at the Twins/Rockies series at Coors Field in May. It was cool, as I hadn't seen him for about a decade. We exchanged numbers that day but hadn't spoken with each other since.
His voicemail talked about the Twins and how I needed to get Liriano going (who had to pitch out of jams most of the game). He also let me know that he noticed that I was playing hookie from work. I was confused how he knew and called him back because the game was not broadcast on FSN like it usually is.
He was watching the mlb.tv broadcast which was using the radio announcers with different cameras angles then you normally see on TV. In the seventh inning, Morneau made a catch against the wall about ten feet from us and he saw me at that point.
Small world I tell ya.
Dude, loved your text that you were less than 10 feet from Jack Cust and that he was a "thick man in person". That text made me hungry, for some reason.
ReplyDeleteI took the picture of him with my cell phone so it didn't turn out very well. I tried to send it to you but I don't think you accept picture messages on your phone.
ReplyDeleteIt was a great afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get a picture attached to the text you sent me, I forgot to say that the other day. I'm doubting his fat ass would fit into one of those little camerphone shots anyways.
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