Wowza a born & raised Astros fan likes the Cards momma?

Hello again basebal fans, I write to you today as a baseball fan in general not a die hard Astros fan. Shocking I know, but truth be told it started the night of Thursday June 2nd 2011. I guess for you to understand I should tell you a story before you want to smack me, so here other goes...

Thursday started out like another day, with the exception of my family being on a 5 day vacation in St.Louis MO on this vacation my aunt from Texas flew in to see us that day, so my family is rushing around like crazy to finish all the things we need to get done before we go pick her up..Hours after we pick her up and spend some time with her its Game time! Off to the stadium we go. As we are talking and visiting with her she looks at our online tickets (we were going to get the real ones at will-call) and says to my dad "H. why does this parking pass say June 1 2011?" My momma takes the paper and all our hearts start to sink as she proceeds to tell daddy that indeed the tickets say what my aunt said.

Daddy begins to flip out and says "I cant believe this. Well yes I can after the past few days we have had I can believe that some how I have the wrong date on those tickets. " as tears feel both daddy and my eyes I smile and say "daddy please let's pray I know that somehow some way GOD will give us favor in this whole mess." I then being to pray and ask Heavenly Daddy to give us some miraculous favor and daddy goes to the will-call office. As he is doing this I text one of my baseball buds wives and ask if they knew anyone in the Cards organization just in case for some tickets. As I am doing this a few minutes go by and daddy calls momma and we meet up with him, and he tells us that the Cards were able to re-emberce our tickets, and this is how they did it...

He said "I walked up to the office and explained to the lady that though I am an Astros fan first I am a baseball fan in general that came to watch a game and somehow I clicked on the computer for tonights game and somehow the computer switched back to the day before is there anyway I can get a refund and get tickets for this game even though I know the paper says "no refunds" and she told me she would speak with her boss after about 15 minutes she came back told me her boss told her to give us 6 tickets in the lower field box level, because they wanted us to enjoy a game. She also told me though she couldn't refund the money this is all she could do. I began to tell her I didn't mind sitting in my original nose bleed seats and again told me that they wanted us to have lower left field box seats on them. So everyone here are your tickets."

With a smile on everyone's face and me texting my buds wife to let her know we got tickets, a Cardinals game we went to watch! After the game I asked my daddy how much the original tickets cost he told me they were $18 tickets. I then asked if he knew how much our new tickets cost he didn't know so I looked it up on the internet and found that the lady upgraded our seats to (brace yourself) $77 tickets for the 6 of us! They doubled our original tickets and blessed us with even better tickets! All I could and can say is Praise be to GOD for answering a very big prayer for this baseball fan and her family!

Until next time remember HE cares...Peace. Love...Baseball!!!!

You know what we get to do today Brooks? We get to play baseball!

Hello again readers. Today is March 31st 2011 to some this day is just another day, but to me & so many other people it is the start of the GREATEST sport EVER invented. Today means baseball is back! Ok that being said, I start this post.

"You know what we get to do today Brooks? We get to play baseball!" Every season I wait for OVER 160 days for the GREATEST sport to return & hear those 3 words every player & fan love to hear. "Lets Play Ball!"

How is it that 3 words can make a fan get goosebumps? That 3 words can make a player think to himself "man I love this game! I fell in love with it when I was a little kid, & I never looked back. Everyday I play this game I play for that kid."? How is it that as fans we think every day for the entire baseball season "This year, my team is gonna kick butt & win it all!"? But for some reason most of us are wrong, but we don't care because in our eyes our team is World Series material, even when they are the worst of the worst we still love them. Win or lose we love them.

Every year a new season begins I think this "The Astros can win the Central, & the Rangers can win their division. The Red Sox can win it all! Yep this season is gonna be better then any other season." I think these things because I love the game. I wait so many days & spend so many hrs thinking about how the season could play out. The best part of the season is simply said best in "the Rookie" "You know what we get to do today Brooks? We get to play baseball!" & as a fan of this great sport I would have to say this...You know what our teams get to do today this first game of the season? They get to play baseball!

Until next time. Peace. Love & most important Baseball :)