Side-eyeing Part 2

Apologies for this taking so long, but it's been a busy day. Before I start, big thanks to everyone for reading this. It makes me happy.

So we crawled out of bed this morning after a very exciting evening of watching Dodge Ball and headed to Tempe. It was pretty friggin' early but it was also almost 70 degrees out so...awesome. Marty had warned me about what it would be like and he was dead on.





50% geriatrics, 30% children and their families and...uh 20% creepy old dudes looking for autographs. And yes, we don't fall into any of those groups but whatever.

It's basically like hanging out watching a high school game except the HS players are HUGE.
What's pretty cool is that you are really close and the coaches who seem like they do nothing all year are really involved during Spring Training.



Alan Trammel (sp?) may have hit 500 grounders while we were there.

EVERYONE'S favorite cub was there of course.



I dare you to say anything bad about Mr. Thighs when you see how great his bunt stance is.

Jimmy Hendry was there. Fat and sunglassed as always.



And then there is my favorite exchange of the day.

Me: Who the f%#k is that?



Marty: I'm pretty sure that's D-Ward.

Me: Jesus, he's all ass.

Marty: (deadpan) Yeah, the words bubble butt springs to mind.

Me: (Not listening) I agree, but seriously look at the size of his ass!

Finally, the most important Cub got to take BP.



That's Fukudome in case you were confused. Not as much media there as we thought there would be. The funniest thing about him was that we saw him out in the outfield just "chilling'" with D. Lee. I know that doesn't sound funny, but he had his translator with him and he had a glove. Not a major league glove, but some kid glove. Awesome. So picture Lee trying to small talk with Fuku while the translater tries to flag balls with a child's mitt. High comedy.



My new man crush is Soto. We got to watch the catchers hit as a group at the end of the day and 3 things stood out...

1) Soto hit one out to dead center and shrugged his shoulders afterwards (the field is 350 down each line, 400 to center and there is a 50 foot wall around the whole place).

2) Hank White has HUGE tats down both arms.

3) Koyie Hill is back and Marty is waaaay too excited about it.

I have another post about the rest of our day, but that may come tomorrow.

Again, thanks for reading.

Go Cubs.