Detroit Tigers - Comerica Park Centerfield

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

At the start of the season Karrie bought 2 tickets for $9 each for Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners. We sat in left field, section 149, row 1.

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Being right behind the bullpens, we got to see all of the pitchers warming up, including Max Scherzer, the Tigers starting pitcher.

He pitched ok, but gave up a lot of hits and the Mariners scored a few runs.

Here's video of him warming up.

http://youtu.be/HSdf6wzVIMQ

The funny thing before the game was the rookie pitchers for the Mariners walking to the bullpen with their cartoon, little kid, backpacks.

It was a little cold and windy. But for the middle of April i wasn't expecting it to be 54 degrees.

Definitely the best part of the game was Miguel Cabrera's homerun.

It was coming right for us, flew over our heads and landed 5 rows behind us. You can't see our faces because right as the camera zoomed in, we turned around to watch where the ball went.

Jose Valverde warmed up a bit, but the tigers never came close enough for him to come in at the 9th inning for the save.
We got up in the 7th and walked around the stadium.

I stopped at one of the balcony's to try and get a cool picture of the ferris wheel. It sort of came out how i wanted, but not perfect. There was too much stuff in the way.

Here's the view from the upper deck. It's been a while since i've had tickets up here, i forget that they are not that bad of seats. But with left and right field tickets selling for under $15 dollars i don't see any reason to sit way up in section 238.

Anyway, it was a fun game to go to, even though it was cold and the Tigers lost.

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Spring Training - 2012

Monday, 5 March 2012

This is the 3rd time i've flown to Arizona for Spring Training Baseball. Here are the pictures from my first 2 trips:

• Spring Training - 2011

• Spring Training - 2010

Here's a map showing everywhere we were planning to go.

John flew down on Thurday to watch the Cubs game with Adam. Karrie and i flew down Friday night.

When i signed up for the car rental it ended up being cheaper to get the Ford Mustang with the 1 day free rental coupon we had. Then when we got to the car rental desk we got to choose between that or the Dodge Challenger.

It was only a V-6 but it was a very smooth ride.


Day 2:
Game 1: Salt River Fields - LA Dodgers vs. Colorado Rockies

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This was the new Colorado Rockies stadium in Scottsdale. It was really nice and you got to see all of the players warming up in the batting cages.

Jason Giambi, on the far right of the picture, was on the team last year. I remember he hit a homerun in the game i saw, it cleared the wall by about 3 inches. This year he had a white beard and acted like more of a hitting coach.

Like last year, there was a car show in the parking lot outside the stadium. There weren't as many cars though this year.

Adam and John pointing toward home plate.

Here are some panoramic pictures of the stadium.



Game 2: Camelback Ranch - Kansas City Royals vs. San Diego Padres

Adam, John and I.

Cameron Maybin, the former Detroit Tigers number 1 prospect, was on the Padres. It was a good thing we got rid of him when we did, and got Miguel Cabrera in the process.

Players signing autograph's.



Day 3:
Game 3 (1pm): Peoria Sports Complex - Colorado Rockies vs. Seattle Mariners
Sunday was cold and rainy so instead of going to the game, we went and watched Michigan State play in the NCAA tournament.

Then afterwords Karrie and i drove around Scottsdale to look at the million dollar houses in gated neighborhoods. We saw lots of Orange and Lemon trees and finally stopped near an alley to pick some. There are tons of orange trees that grow there. I was the driver and on lookout duty.

It turned out that they weren't quite ripe. They looked fine but weren't that flavorful.

The view of the mountains with the rain clouds behind them.

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Spring Training - 2011

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

I went Arizona again this year for spring training baseball. I was there with Adam and John, John's uncle and his buddy Opitz. We saw 4 games in three days between March 11th -13th. I think the teams we saw were the Mariners, Diamondbacks, Angels, Padres, Rockies, and Reds.

Here's us waiting to go into the Angels Stadium.

I tried taking some panorama pictures of the fields. Like before i took 3 to 5 overlapping pictures and combined them using the program AutoStitch.

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View from right field.

Empty batting cages.

The second day in between the 2 games there was a car show going on outside of the stadium in a parking lot.

It's a little blurry but look at both of the pitchers names. UNKNOWN.

A typical fan.

Outfield signs

John and Adam at the new Diamondbacks stadium in Scottsdale.

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Time for a New Coach????

Monday, 22 November 2010

I went to my first football game in Ann Arbor to see UofM vs Wisconsin. Of course UofM lost.

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The stadium was huge and i was amazed at then amount of people in the streets and at the game.

The best part was that all of the fans were cheering whenever they showed the score of the MSU vs Purdue game because MSU was down by 14. The reason is was so good was that MSU came back in the 4th quarter to win.

Here's what 20,000 depressed wolverine fans look like.

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