"Take me out to the ballgame....Take me out the crowd... Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks.. I don't care if I ever get back for it's root, root, root for the home team.. If they don't win, it's a shame.. for it's 1..2..3 strikes you're out at the old ballgame."What a classic! I hear that song, along with the National Anthem, almost everyday of my life of the late. I have heard it sung countless times and many different ways. I've have recieved countless ticket stubs from many different baseball stadiums... I have seen strikeouts, home runs, pick-offs, walk-offs... I've seen grown men and woman stand to their feet to do the chicken dance between innings. What a great game baseball is! It can bring out the best in the people watching-or the worst. It really is 'America's best past time'.
I really do enjoy watching baseball. I can't even imagine what life would be like if Daniel would have been a football player. I'm sure I would have learned to know and like the game, but not the way I love baseball :) Well, I greet you from Michigan today! I've been meaning to get on here sooner and post, but just haven't got the chance yet until now. We left early Tuesday morning for the 6.5 hour drive to Lansing, Michigan. The hitting coach's wife and sons are here until the end of the season.. so she came along with me on this road trip. It was so nice to have her on that long drive. She is from Venezuela and doesn't speak too much English, but she is awesome and I've really been enjoying spending time with her. She has been helping me with my Spanish too, so that's been great! Anyways, things have been going pretty good lately. We are now in Midland, Michigan. Daniel's team is playing the Great Lake Loons- an affiliate of the LA Dodgers until tomorrow. The stadium is awesome and the weather has been perfect! Daniel has been doing pretty well so far on this away-series. First night in Lansing, he went 2 for 4 with a double! :) and has been getting a hit every game. I've really been enjoying my time with him this season. It's been such a blessing to be able to travel with him. It's really neat to see places and meet people I never would have without baseball. It's been a total experience. The "baseball life" is pretty interesting. I know many people may think it is all 'glamorous', but it definitely gets challenging at times. The mental and physical toll that the players go through for 7 months out of the year can definitely get tough and I just feel so fortunate to be able to be here with Daniel after every game to greet him with a smile and a kiss. He is such an amazing man. I really do see the passion God has given him for baseball, but am so thankful and so proud of him that his first passion is Jesus. Baseball is an interesting thing in the fact that it can be taken from you any day and at any moment, whether it be due to an injury or a release. You really have to take it day by day. And I'm so blessed and happy that through the constant changes baseball can bring... that we have an unchanging God! A God who loves us the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Praise God we can find stability in Him!
Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
I really do enjoy watching baseball. I can't even imagine what life would be like if Daniel would have been a football player. I'm sure I would have learned to know and like the game, but not the way I love baseball :) Well, I greet you from Michigan today! I've been meaning to get on here sooner and post, but just haven't got the chance yet until now. We left early Tuesday morning for the 6.5 hour drive to Lansing, Michigan. The hitting coach's wife and sons are here until the end of the season.. so she came along with me on this road trip. It was so nice to have her on that long drive. She is from Venezuela and doesn't speak too much English, but she is awesome and I've really been enjoying spending time with her. She has been helping me with my Spanish too, so that's been great! Anyways, things have been going pretty good lately. We are now in Midland, Michigan. Daniel's team is playing the Great Lake Loons- an affiliate of the LA Dodgers until tomorrow. The stadium is awesome and the weather has been perfect! Daniel has been doing pretty well so far on this away-series. First night in Lansing, he went 2 for 4 with a double! :) and has been getting a hit every game. I've really been enjoying my time with him this season. It's been such a blessing to be able to travel with him. It's really neat to see places and meet people I never would have without baseball. It's been a total experience. The "baseball life" is pretty interesting. I know many people may think it is all 'glamorous', but it definitely gets challenging at times. The mental and physical toll that the players go through for 7 months out of the year can definitely get tough and I just feel so fortunate to be able to be here with Daniel after every game to greet him with a smile and a kiss. He is such an amazing man. I really do see the passion God has given him for baseball, but am so thankful and so proud of him that his first passion is Jesus. Baseball is an interesting thing in the fact that it can be taken from you any day and at any moment, whether it be due to an injury or a release. You really have to take it day by day. And I'm so blessed and happy that through the constant changes baseball can bring... that we have an unchanging God! A God who loves us the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Praise God we can find stability in Him!
Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
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