Would you look who showed up at Security Service Field at Mile High on Saturday:
OMG! It’s John Elway!
He was there because his old college roommate at Stanford is Steve Buechele, the Round Rock Express manager.
Steve Buechele, left, is a friend of John Elway.
So, what’s the great John Elway do at a minor league baseball game you ask? You know, the usual, sit around all game eating copious amounts of sunflower seeds…
MUST EAT ALL THE SEEDS!
…drinking some High Quality H2O…
Water is just so damn refreshing.
…and checking his phone…
Nope. Says here we’re still losing the Super Bowl.
…and just shooting the shit with these two dudes (sorry. No idea who they are)
Yup. That’s John Elway. Just hanging out with a couple of his buds. (foot and cap in foreground do not belong to his buds)
Round Rock defeated the Sky Sox 16-12 in a game that didn’t last over 4 hours. Hope you enjoyed the game John!
Last night Sox pitcher Tyler Matzek gave up a grand slam to Round Rock’s Adam Rosales in the top of the 4th inning. The ball went a very long way and I wanted to get a reaction shot of the pitcher:
Tyler Matzek after giving up a four run homer in the 4th.
Not that great of a shot. No f-bombs. No shouting at the sky. Just a player knowing that if you go to a 3 ball count too many times you’re eventually going to pay for it.
Yup. That ball went a long, long ways.
In the last of the 3 frames I shot (below), I noticed the runner’s grin as Matzek is turning to get a new ball:
‘Heh, heh, heh…you gave up a grand slam. ‘Heh, heh, heh…
Dude. Dude! What a dick move (if that is what he was doing. It could be I just caught an odd facial expression and not a “heh, heh, heh” event. Photography can be like that. Derp moments, or odd expressions that mean nothing. But we’re going to assume it was a “heh, heh, heh” moment otherwise this would be a post with 3 pictures of a guy who gave up a home run and where’s the fun in that?).
Who is this evil man?
The problem is I don’t know who the guilty party is. Focused on Matzek I wasn’t counting the runners. Is it the hitter, Adam Rosales? It can’t be the first runner, Alex Buchholtz, and doubtful it was the second one, Chris Snyder, because the guy on 3rd, Buchholtz wouldn’t be trotting and Snyder had nothing to trot about (and unless both were walking really, really slowly they should have been home already). So, that leaves the player on 1st, Jared Hoying, or Rosales. Who is our dick? Help us out if you know. We’ll give an update after this afternoon’s game if we find out. Let’s stir this pot!
UPDATE – It was JARED HOYING! GUILTY! of something or not.
Look at that crowd! Security Service Field at Mile High is going to be hoppin’ tonight!
Yea! It’s finally here! The Sky Sox home opener is tonight. 1st pitch at 637pm. Forecast temperature for said 1st pitch, wait for it, 68 degrees! Yes! 68! And even by game’s end and the fireworks it’s still going to be in the high 50’s.
I’m so excited I could just burst! (And I ain’t even pitching tonight)
The rest of the weekend you ask? Saturday’s 137pm start, sweet! Mid-70’s! Sunday? Quiet you!
So, come out and enjoy some baseball on a perfect April night and stick around for the fireworks without the fear of ending up like Jack Torrance in The Shining.
April baseball in Colorado? Not yet my friend. Not yet.
Congrats to Christian Friedrich! You are the leader in the clubhouse for the 2014 Head Shot of the Year!
Damn! That’s a happy man!
This one is almost on par with the all-time great Edgar Gonzalez pic:
El Glacier! Es numero uno!
Why is Edgar’s better? This was the pose for all 3 head shots I took. He was asked if he wanted to change it and he said he like this one. Friedrich took 2 normal ones and tossed this one in afterwords.
But that’s okay Christian. You’re a lefty and lefties mean these kind of shots.
The Colorado Springs Sky Sox have their home opener on Friday, April 11th against the Round Rock Express. Game time is 635pm. Head on out to Security Service Field at Mile High and enjoy some decent weather April baseball. You know, before the field freezes and that old East Wind comes a torquing the ball again.
And here is your 2013 winning shot of Charlie Blackmon (currently tearing it up with the Rockies):
The road to the Frozen Four begins Friday around College Hockeyland, and the ESPN family of stations (yes, it’s is the ESPNs and they are showing hockey).
DU captain Josiah Didier in a 3-3 tie against Air Force on November 22, 2013
Friday, March 28
Noon MT – Union v Vermont (East Semi #1) – ESPNU
230pm MT – Ferris State v Colgate (Midwest Semi #1) – ESPN3
330pm MT – Providence v Quinnipiac (East Semi #2) – ESPNU
600pm MT – North Dakota v Wisconsin (Midwest Semi #2) – ESPNU
Saturday, March 29
100pm MT – Union v Providence East Final – ESPN2
200pm MT – Denver v Boston College (Northeast Semi #1) – ESPNU
330pm MT – Minnesota v Robert Morris (West Semi #1) – ESPN2
430pm MT – Ferris St. v North Dakota Midwest Final – ESPNU
530pm MT – UMass Lowell v Minn St. Mankato (Northeast Semi #2) – ESPN3
700pm MT – St. Cloud St. v Notre Dame (West Semi #2)- ESPNU
Sunday, March 30
300pm MT – Boston College v UMass Lowell Northeast Final – ESPNU
530pm MT – Minnesota v St. Cloud St. West Regional Final – ESPNU
Thursday, April 10
300pm MT – Union v Boston College (Semi #1) – ESPN2
630pm MT – North Dakota v Minnesota (Semi #2) -ESPN2
Saturday, April 12
530pm MT – Championship – ESPN proper
Robert Morris losing 2-0 to Air Force on January 25, 2013
Here’s your bracket. Fill it out and you’ll also not win a billion dollars.
Goat Simulator. Yup. Pretty cool. From your friends at Coffee Stain Studios. Started out as a joke, the interwebs fell in love, and the rest is history.
Here’s the trailer:
Most of the time when you see goats on TV they just ate some dynamite and some sort of wackiness is about to ensue. Well, with this game you are the goat! You are the wackiness!
Hey! Look at me! I’m a goat!
The best I can tell in the game you wander around as a goat and get points for messing sh*t up. You know? Like a goat would do, except for that points stuff.
Goat’s smashing that hipster! I’ve got to get this game!
What did you do yesterday? Work? Something fun? Fuel your nightmares for years to come? I did the latter.
For the past couple of years these rodents have haunted me at Security Service Field at Mile High…
Ciggy Butts, Fat Rat 1, Fat Rat 2 & Fat Rat 3.
…Just the three on the right (Ciggy Butts on the left was a anti-smoking mascot that the kids all loved to get their photo taken with. So I guess that would be a fail when you’re trying to get kids to avoid smoking and stuff. Maybe if they made him stink like an ashtray the kids would have kept their distance and taunted him like a proper mascot).
These “Hamstars” are part of a Kia ad campaign where hip hop rats tear-ass around town in their brand new Kia. You know, stuff that dreams are made of and makes you want to race out of your home and buy a new car.
As you can see, I am the happiest man in the world.
So Monday I get the call to come out and shoot the “new and improved” Hamstars for this season’s Sky Sox hamster/rat promotions. I get there, and oh my God! They have lost weight. They have lost a whole lot of weight and gotten a whole bunch more creepy. BEHOLD! YOUR 2014 HAMSTARS!
Just like James Bond, but with rats heads.Green screen. HamStars. Get busy interwebs!The pompadour is a nice touch.The Kia people were awesome! The ladies in the HamStar heads were great! The heads themself? Um…
So, when you come out to see the Sky Sox this year be warned. These things exist and you will probably see them at some point. Maybe on Eat Your Own Young Night or Richard Gere Night. See you there! Bring the kids!
SPHL (low minor leagues) Columbus Cottonmouths’ goaltender Andrew Loewen busts out “The Wobble” in the tunnel before his team came out for the 3rd period. Dude puts the rest of the troop to shame. Goalies rock!
This game Loewen was backing up Canadian Women’s Olympic Gold Medal goalie Shannon Szabodos so Andrew had a bit of time on his hands. Time that he used to DANCE! DANCE!! DANCE!!!
Szabodos and the Cottonmouths lost to the Knoxville Ice Bears 4-3, but are there really any losers when stuff like this ends up on YouTube? PengoSports sez, “NO!” So good on you Andrew Loewen!
Loewen is 20-15-1 with a 2.73 GAA and a .913 save percentage this year. So when he’s not dancing, or backing up Olympians, he’s putting up good numbers for the playoff bound Cottonmouths.
Air Force defeats Niagara 2-1 in game one of their quarterfinal series at the Cadet Ice Arena.
The Air Force hockey team is a win away from another trip to next weekend’s Atlantic Hockey Championships in Rochester, NY on the heels of last night’s hard fought 2-1 quarterfinal win over Niagara at the Cadet Ice Arena.
Cole Gunner opens the Falcons’ scoring at 6:28 of the 2nd period off a pass from Alex Demers.Max Hartner one-times the game winner off a pass by George Michalke III beating Niagara’s goaltender Jackson Teichroeb at 9:43 of the 2nd.
Tickets are still available for game 2 tonight (and Sunday’s game 3 if necessary). Come support the Falcons and their drive to get back to the NCAA tournament.
No one is defending him, just like every possession in the all star game.
Watched a bit of the NBA All-Star Dunk Extravaganza thingy this weekend. Why? Um, cause it was on? This thing has become as bad as the Pro Bowl. So this is how I felt about the weekend (the guy with the camera is the NBA and I am the guy in the 3rd shot down):
Hey you! Yeah, you TV watching guy… Do you like basketball? Yeah? Well then, you’re really going to hate this!Enjoy your Dunk Contest and All Start Game sucker!Ouch. I’m shot by the terribleness of it all.
So, it sucked. But at least there was a weekend full of awesome Olympic hockey games to watch! And the NRL Auckland Nines were sweet! And the Aussie Rules preseason is underway! And MLB Spring camps are opening! And football is only 6+ months away!
Get out of the way Durant on a horse! No one can stop LeBron on a horse!
Oh, and how about them Nuggets?! Good to see they quit before the season even started to spare our hopes getting dashed in the playoffs again.
Looking at the Gazette.com tonight when I saw this tease for Air Force hockey:
Blah; blah; blah; ROAD TEAT!?; blah…
Yeah, they are going to Buffalo this weekend to take on Canisius. So, it should be cold, but ‘Witch’s Teat’ cold? And does the cold make the teat ‘tough’?
Is the ‘Road Teat’ tough because it’s has been on the road so long, or does it have some other affliction?
Hell, maybe Air Force hockey team is full off AG majors and are going on a field trip to get the poop on Winter vs Teats. To us, it just sound kind of weird.
Who knew that Winter was so hard on teats?
Click the above image to read the full article from AGWeb.com if you want/need to know more about the age-old battle between Winter and teats. But, unless you run a dairy it’s about as interesting as it sounds.
Or it could have been a typo. Anyways, go Air Force! Beat the Teats Golden Griffins!
Air Force swept first place Mercyhurst last weekend with a 5-3 track meet win on Friday and followed up with a 2-0 victory in a defensive battle on Saturday. The Falcons picked up 4 big points from the conference leading Lakers in their bid to secure a top 4 slot in the Atlantic Hockey playoffs .
The Falcons’ Chad Demers (duh-MERZ), #17, scored Saturday’s game winner with 1:34 to go in the game. To say he, and the team, were excited would be an understatement.
Chad Demers in the offensive zone driving to the net.Demers redirects a Cole Gunner pass and watches the puck slide by Mercyhurst goaltender Jordan Tibbett.The goal puts Air Force up 1-0 with 1:34 to play.duh-MERZ! duh-MERZ! duh-MERZ!The goal blows the lid off an amped up Cadet Ice Arena.Demers launches himself into the glass in front of the Cadet cheering section.The Falcons celebrate in front of their fans.Cole Gunner follows up with a launch of his own.
Air Force hosts RIT on February 21 & 22 to close out the regular season home schedule. Get your butt out there and watch some damn good hockey.
