Fun and Agony at the Ball Park

Last night tres_arbolitos and I attended the Seattle Mariners vs Houston Astros professional baseball game at Safeco Field courtesy of the Houston Astros.  My son's strength, conditioning, and arm-care coach is in the process of developing a process for the Astros' minor league pitching development (or at least a little part of that).  He met with front office brass before the game and then treated him and several of his young pitching proteges to take in the game from just above home plate.

The game was a mess for M's fans as the team performed poorly against one of the worst teams (presently) in Major League Baseball.  But the company was great and son's coach was in rare form revealing some of the breadth of his baseball knowledge, a great sense of humor, and a penchant for profanity to which I could only supplicate in utter respect.

As a result of the company, coach, his colleague and friend, three young pitchers who have worked exceedingly hard together all winter, and the dads, the night was a hilarious success.  Perhaps the single best moment, leaving aside when coach screamed out "That ball was FUCKED" following a towering homer hit by one of the Astros, was when a fan caught a foul ball in his beer cup and proceeded to chug the beer before removing said ball.  The beauty of personal and social media being what it has become, someone caught the event on tape and it's now up on the internet.

 

Fan catches foul ball in beer cup, chugs beer!