Today was Day One of the Colorado Rockies Fantasy camp. It's been a really long day (up at 4:30, writing this at midnight) so I am not going to go into a lot of detail right now, but here are some highlights and tidbits:
• I am going to get a lot of shwag. In addition to the two Rockies jerseys I'll be taking home, so far I've also racked up two pairs of sunglasses, my hat, a short sleeve Rocks shirt, two long sleeve ones, a lightweight Rocks coat, a Rocks skull cap, a Fantasy Camp hat, a pair of underwear, wristbands, and I'm sure I'm forgetting several other things. And, impressively, the veterans I've talked to (of which there are several here), say we will get something new everyday.
• Larry Walker and Dante Bichette are still sculpted and fit.
• It's hard (for me, anyway) to hit a baseball with a bat. And it's really hard to hit it out of the INFIELD!
• We have one real character at camp. He's a former 400 lb professional wrestler who went by the name of Avalanche Blackwell and he says that "while wrestling might have been fake, the pain was real". He swears he can scale the outfield wall of Hi Corbet field by himself—it's got to be at least 20 feet high. He aspires to get his commercial divers license, and is currently enrolled in a culinary college to get his chef's degree. He's a unique character, but he is adding some serious seasoning to the camp. I like being in the guy's presence.
• My roommate's a young kid who puts up the strikes, balls, and hits on the scoreboard at Coors Field during home games. Are you kidding me? That's his job. How cool is that?
• We played one game today in which I went 0-3 with a strikeout. Bummer. But I played a decent second base.
Much more to come tomorrow....
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