Allikazoo's Spring Training Insanity, Day One

Hi all. I don't really have a ton to say about today's game, mostly because I slept about 3-4 hours last night before flying to Florida and we went straight to the game from the airport. Extreme lack of sleep + travel + juggling cameras & blackberry in the sun = dead Alli. I think I'm just gonna list various thoughts, then I'll share a couple photos.

- I got there just as the second inning started, and we kind of ran into the park without taking any time to soak up the surroundings, so I don't have a lot to say on that yet.

- I really like Joker Marchant stadium though. Very nice little ballpark. People aren't lying when they say there isn't a bad seat in the house, from what I could tell. Attendance today was the second biggest crowd in the history of the place.

- Brennan Boesch and Ryan Strieby are BIG DUDES. Wow. I knew that just from seeing other people's photos, but in person I was like "whoa." Of course, I didn't get any decent photos of either of them to back this up. Sorry.

- Wilkin Ramirez runs fast. REALLY fast.

- Jacob Turner is very impressive, and I have a crappy video to prove it after the jump.

- Seeing Curtis as a Yankee didn't weird me out as much as I thought it would. I did not include the one photo I got of him (I took several but they all sucked) in this post, in case that still makes anyone squeamish.

 There are a few photos after the jump, and the entire set is here. The pics from today aren't the most amazing, probably due to the fact that I'm out of practice and tired.. future sets will hopefully be better.

The next game I'm supposed to go to is Friday. The weather is forecast to be thunderstorm-tastic throughout the entire state of Florida. Hopefully some baseball will still take place, please think dry thoughts for me because I have really great seats to that game. As promised, I tried to give a really bare bones play-by-play of the game via the @norunsupport twitter, I hope it helped since there was no media coverage today. I'll do what I can at the rest of the games I go to!

Jacob Turner

Jim & Gene

Miggy

Knock, knock.. (come on, you knew I was going to include a photo of Casper)

Jacob Turner from allison hagen on Vimeo.

This video totally sucks and I'm sorry, the camera I wanted to bring that takes HD video was somehow left behind (NICE ONE, DAD). If you click through you can see a bigger version of it. This was his first strikeout of the day - I don't remember who was batting, but it was a three pitch K. I have some more videos from the other point & shoot I have and will try to upload them soon.

SLEEP. NOW.