bball

Currently listening to: My Type – Saweetie

Coworker: Imagine if you were Shohei Ohtani’s wife?
Me: He’s so my type.  Got that baby face, swole AF, and 6’4″.  I’d get my Timberlands on and climb that giant Sequoia.
Coworker: Umm, I was thinking about all the money he made signing on with the Dodgers.  $700 million, that’s like winning the lotto.
Me: Who cares about his money…have you seen him? And I bet he’s hella smart…and the fact that he can pitch and hit?  His hand-eye coordination must be sick.

Rob Lowe was on a talk show gushing about Ohtani’s respect for him and the game.  Another reason to like him…not that you needed another one.

I’ve loved baseball since I was a six years old.  Our neighbors who lived across the street would take us to baseball games with their kids and we would go early to get autographs from various Twins players.  We used to watch the World Series at home (the only sports that we were allowed to watch aside from the Olympics).  I was obsessed with baseball cards too. Donruss, Topps, Fleer, Upper Deck…I had to have them all.  I had so many.  I kept them in binders and in clean sleeves to keep them in mint condition.

It was all fun and games till my dad got mad because the cards were all over the living room, cluttering the floor because I wanted to spread them out to look and admire them all.  When I failed to pick them up right away, he grabbed the cards and threw them in the trash.  I was not allowed to pick them out of the garbage.  I was so distraught that I gave the remaining baseball cards to my brother, who was also an avid collector at the time.

The Minnesota Twins will forever be my favorite team, I even had all their players’ stats memorized.  I was fortunate enough to go to several of their games (even though they haven’t won a world series since 1991).  I’ve gone to plenty of baseball games in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Texas, Boston, and Los Angeles.  I love it when the Dodgers have Hello Kitty night and the food at Dodger stadium is ALMOST as good as the food at Globe Life Field.  It’s always fun to sing Take Me Out to the Ball Game, doing the wave, and buying snacks from the stadium vendor going up and down the stairs.

I was able to watch part of the first game of the World Series at the gym.  I’ve never been so damn stressed out while working out before.  I couldn’t keep my eyes off the screens and my pace was going faster and faster till I reached 10,000 steps.   The Dodgers won 6-3 against the YankDeezNuuutz…sorry Yankees.  Go Doyers!