Ball #3,000

lets have a contest!

will I get my 6th ball before you get your 3,000th?

I don't think so.... lol

so according to that ludicrous review you can't understand baseball without a hotdog shoved in your mouth while sitting on daddy's lap. that or having a brawl in a pub ( near fenway park;i'd guess)
what an ***

CUBS-
Hard to say, but I guess we'll find out soon.

MIKE-

I love it when you say things for me.

:-)

MY THROAT-

Die.

and i love it when you clean up my typos

If no one else in the snagging community is calling it, Then I am the first to receive a ball from Dice-K. He was really nice about it even half pretended to toss it away, and responded well to the afterwards "Domo" (thanks), I think you could get a ball easy from him.

Zacker:

Sorry to hear that your under the weather and on the 15 day disabled list due to sickness.

You should have listened to your mother about dressing properly while out in the line of duty (snagging balls)...

Get well soon. I'm sure the antibiotics will get rid of that nasty bug you must have picked up in Philly.

It's only a matter of time before your back in action!

Wow, what a review. All I saw was:

Book was good. Book had parts. Book not good. Pick it up. I like raisins. Time for helmet.

I think I speak for us all when I say it's nice to see incohesive sentence fragments every now and then. Especially from a "journalist."

Feel better, and come up for a throw soon. (We'll use one of my MLB baseballs..)

MIKE-
Well, what a nice arrangement we have.

FRENCH FRYER-

I don't know anyone else who's gotten a ball from him, but you have to admit that Dice-K probably HAS thrown at least one other ball into the crowd during the season's first month. Now...I happen to know that I got the first ball from David Wright because I was at Shea the day the Mets called him up in '04, and as soon as he came out onto the field, he went to 3rd base and started taking fungos, and I was the only one over there, and he tossed a ball to me within a couple minutes.

MIKE-

Thanks, but I still feel like poo.

SHEFFRO-

You're too funny.

I just have one negative thing to say about your book: You made a mistake- besides dark blue and purple seats, there is 4 red seats called the 'coke a Cola front row seats." So there, ha!

So I'm almost definitely going to Baltimore on Saturday (with my whole family). Does anyone know where the umpires exit the field at the end of games at Camden Yards?

CHARLIE-
If that's the worst mistake I made...

GREG-

Small tunnel directly behind the plate. The ushers in the main aisle are always watching, so be careful as you head down the steps.

Well, technically you had a few other errors in the book. Like offhand I recall you typoed Sadaharu Oh's first name. But whatever.

May 7th's my 30th birthday, so it seems a fitting day for you to get your 3000th ball! (Yeah, I'm old. Also, there's no major league game around here that day and I don't feel like schlepping down to AAA Tacoma. Though I've had the Yankees out here on my birthday a few times... once Freddy Garcia gave up 10 runs to them in the third inning, which ******. Another time, Edgar Martinez hit his 500th double. It all balances out.)

Unfortunately, if you have mono, the most useful thing about knowing you have it is so you avoid giving it to anyone else, and also to avoid getting kicked in the spleen. And to not be surprised if like, you find yourself falling asleep at a baseball game and Gil Meche isn't even pitching.

-deanna

Cool, thanks. Also, which gate opens first at Camden? I mean, by letter (H or the one on the other end of Eutaw Street)? Or do both open at the same time?

DEANNA-
Ohhhh, I know about that awful mistake. I'm so embarrassed. It was just a bit too late when I first noticed it to make the official change. Crapola. Don't tell anyone (else). Happy almost birthday. I don't think it's mono, so I should be on the mend soon.

GREG-

I think both ends of Eutaw are supposed to open at the same time (two hours before first pitch), but the gate in deeeeep center field always seems to open first, perhaps only by a few seconds. I wouldn't know because by that point I'm in the CF seats looking for balls. But yeah, it's the gate with the H that you want to go to...right around the corner from the ticket windows.

Awesome. I am so phyched about going to Camden! I can't wait!

Wait wait wait...you've never been there before?!

Yeah, I've been there before -- just not since I started collecting baseballs. I was there in 2005. I didn't have a clue about the fascinating world of snagging yet. I was clueless. It was a noon game and I got there at 11:45. But now, I know the true awesomeness of the art of snagging. So this is a new type of ballpark visit than the one in 2005.