All Star Fun

So a few days ago the New York-Penn League All Star Game was held at Coney Island and I decided to go see it.

And finally I got LUIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS too.
One thing that was really cool is that Luis remembered who I was. You see, around the 3rd inning my 21st century attention span wore out and I decided to go watch pitchers warm up in the home team bullpen, there I saw LUIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS warming up. He saw me, we waved hands at each other and he went on catch Mitch Gueller (a guy I wanted to get an autograph of but didn't).

After that I stopped paying attention to the game altogether and just went on Torrens-watch.
He warmed up in the bullpen for a while until he was eventually thrown into the game as a pinch runner in the bottom of the 5th.

Although Torrens made it to second, he was left stranded and the South team didn't score.

Torrens stayed in the game as a catcher and remained in the game until the end.

In the seventh Torrens hit a double and then made it to third when the next batter (fellow SI Yankee Isaias Tejeda) reached first on a fielding error. Torrens later came home on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Derek Campbell, scoring the only run the South team managed to accumulate.

In all Torrens went 1-2 with a double, run scored and threw out a base stealer attempting to steal second in the 8th inning. I dunno about you but I think they gave the MVP award to the wrong guy...

So those were my autographs and LUIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS reports. Here are the rest of the notables using bullet points.

*The game ended in a tie 1-1. A positive way to look at the game would be to call it a pitching duel. A negative way to look at the game is that it was a total waste of time for the audience.

*They gave away free whatever the hell you call these things at the gates. Mainly so the staff/security could see your ticket and make sure you're sitting in your seat.

*The gift shop at MCU Park finally had the NYPL Top Prospects set as well as a Cyclones team set. I bought three Top Prospects set (I gave one entire set to Luis as a thank you present) and one Cyclones set.

*As I was leaving the stadium I noticed a box that still had some programs inside and decided to take some for myself. Anyone want one?

*Seeing all the desperate and sweaty autograph hounds (mainly out of shape whiteys in their 30's) after the game kind of made me embarrassed to be an autograph collector.

So anyway, that was the All Star Game that I saw.
As always, thanks for taking the time to stop by and take care :).

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