When I first moved down to Florida I was able to feed my
love for baseball in the month of March with all the Spring Training baseball I
could fit in 30 Days. I was single and I worked
nights so all I really had to do was wake-up in time to make it to my
destination for this to happen. I shared photos and stories of how great it was
with my northern friends and all of them said how great it sounded and would
need to plan a trip some day. Well this weekend (23 years later) one of them
finally decided it was time to make the trip. My closest and oldest friend Joe
finally decided it was time. Here is a
little journal of our trip.
Day One was a trip to Tampa to see the Yanks and Tigers on
Monday night. It was cold and got down to 49 degrees which would not have been
too bad had I paid attention to the tickets and saw it was a night game. So
when we got to Tampa at 11:15 am and none of the parking lots were open we kind of wondered what was up. We needed to figure out something fast and we figured a
double header would be a great way to start the weekend. We decided to drive
over to Dunedin since we had a few hours to burn. The scalpers wanted $50 for a
$14 general admission ticket, too rich for our taste so we headed back to Tampa
and made the best of it.
A little batting practice on one of the side fields and then
into the big park to see the “stars” Watching Miguel Cabrera is just a
wonderful experience these days. I watched him hit when he was younger and with
the Marlins and it was impressive but now it’s just unreal. He makes it look so
easy and effortless. My buddy Joe is a Yankee fan so he got to see Jeter dink a
few hits and it made his day.
