OT: Baseball related, sort of a gloat

[GeeDubb]

If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing the
first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to batting
practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.

Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.

Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!

Gary

 

[Ride-A-Lot]

GeeDubb wrote:
> If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
> Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing
> the first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to
> batting practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.
>
> Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
> walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.
>
> Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!
>
> Gary
>
>

That's cool and a great honor!

--
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[MattB]

GeeDubb wrote:
> If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
> Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing
> the first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to
> batting practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.
>
> Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
> walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.
>
> Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!
>
> Gary
>
>

That's great. Pretty exciting for her I bet!

Matt

 

[Paladin]

On Aug 20, 1:23 pm, "GeeDubb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
> Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing the
> first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to batting
> practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.
>
> Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
> walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.
>
> Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!
>
> Gary

Wow, Gary, very cool. Hi to the family.

CDB

 

[GeeDubb]

"MattB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> GeeDubb wrote:
>> If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
>> Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing the
>> first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to batting
>> practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.
>>
>> Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
>> walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.
>>
>> Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>
> That's great. Pretty exciting for her I bet!
>
> Matt

It was, though a little disorganized. Then they wouldn't let me videotape
her due to MLB regulation. Good thing my wife's Sony camera does video
capture hehehehe! After some slight confusion as to where she was supposed
to stand and which direction she was supposed to throw the ball.......No
dirt ball, woohoo!!!! (she was throwing to one of the pitcher's, Micah
Owings, which was the confusion as my daughter assumed that the pitcher was
supposed to go to the mound

Watching batting practice from the dugout was ok and the 3rd baseman tossed
his batting gloves to her when he was done....nice sweaty, very large gloves
. Then we only managed to get three guys to sign her ball, one of which
was Bob Melvin, the manager (who also happens to have a type 1 diabetic
daughter). Bob was a super guy and spent about 15 minutes with us.

All in all, we had a great time (not being baseball fans or knowing who any
of the players are). The best part was the limo ride! The game was not so
good for the D-backs but great for the many Brewer's fans.

Gary

 

[GeeDubb]

"Paladin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Aug 20, 1:23 pm, "GeeDubb" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
>> Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing the
>> first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to batting
>> practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.
>>
>> Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
>> walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.
>>
>> Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!
>>
>> Gary
>
> Wow, Gary, very cool. Hi to the family.
>
> CDB
>

and a warm howdy back at your family.
Gary

 

[JD]

On Aug 20, 12:23 pm, "GeeDubb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If any of you follow baseball (I don't) and plan on watching the
> Diamondbacks/ Brewers game today, my 10 year old daughter is throwing the
> first pitch. The family is being picked up in a limo, taken to batting
> practice, then dinner and back for her to toss the ball.
>
> Thanks goes to her mom who raised the most donations for a diabetes
> walk-a-thon here in Phoenix.
>
> Diabetes is a pia disease but sometimes it has it's perks!
>
> Gary


Cool stuff, G. That's huge.

I'm still a bit of a baseball nut. Last night I was sitting at work,
watching the fireworks at the Big A from all of the runs they scored.
Garrett Anderson had ten RBIs, with two doubles and two home runs, one
a grand slam. He's the 12th person to ever have double-digit RBIs in
a game.

JD

 

[Bill Sornson]

JD wrote:

> I'm still a bit of a baseball nut. Last night I was sitting at work,
> watching the fireworks at the Big A from all of the runs they scored.
> Garrett Anderson had ten RBIs, with two doubles and two home runs, one
> a grand slam. He's the 12th person to ever have double-digit RBIs in
> a game.

More than the Padres get in a WEAK WEEK. (No exaggeration.)

GrumBill