What a funny game it is?

Site: Coors Field

Date: May 12, 2010

Time: Roughly 4:28 PM

We saw the ball majestically hit my Miguel Olivo and sail over the wall, him skip around the bases, then dive into a pile of men willing to pile drive their comrade into the ground in standard congratulatory fashion.

This happens to be my second Rockies game of the season and strangely the first ended in the strange manner. But it doesn’t end there.

Roy Halladay, the home grown son, was pitching his first game ever in his home state of Colorado. He is 6-1, which is unbelievable even by his standards.

Both starting All-Star shortstops Troy Tulowitzki and Jimmy Rollins are injured and got another DNP. And another 3 players got hurt over the course of the game

Earlier this week 2 different catchers hit walk off home runs against the Mets in consecutive games. Walk-off home runs don't happen every day, let alone catchers doing it.

Miguel Olivo was the 3^rd player to ever go 5-for-5 in a game and have a walk off home run. The last player to do this was Fred McGriff in the late 1990’s.

As the Rockies commentators say over and over again throughout the course of the season that you see something new everyday. Something that may say ‘huh’ or ‘WOW’. And all the people out there that don’t understand it. That can’t find the reason why people come back to it. That see it as simple and too easy of a sport. You can’t get this anywhere else, something so intricate, so mentally straining, and so detailed. Every little little thing matters and it can make all the difference.

[People go through life regretting decision, career choices, and personal associations; being selfish, ignorant, irrational and sometimes downright crazy. But there is a certain kind of person that plays a huge role in my life that do ZERO/none of those. They are the type of people that makes the ball bounce their way, they will go out of their way for you, they can make you smile and maybe even make milk come out of your nose at the exact inopportune moment. You are the differences in my life that are there in baseball.

I would like to personally congratulate all the 8orade graduates on ‘Finishing-Strong’. I would like to wish people good luck on their journey ahead of them in Guam. And I would like to thank my friends and family for being there for me. ]