Batting

One of our boys warming up to bat. I tried to get some pictures of them actually batting, but I couldn't see very well through the umpire.

Random

I've no idea who this is or what they're doing, but I thought it was a pretty good picture for a phone camera. You can even see the ball if you look closely.

Catching

Butterfinger catching. He played quite a bit in more recent games.

Warming up to play

Butterfinger warming up with the pitcher before an inning.

Number 13

If I read the stats right (and I would like you to know its very probable I read them wrong), this is our best hitter. This is also at a much more recent game. The most recent one at home, I think.

Warming Up 2

Warming-up.

Warming Up

Butterfinger walking out to catch while the picher warmed up. He didn't play much at first, or at least not when I was watching. Injury or something I think.

WEL

The first few games of the season were incredibly chilly, but bright. So yes, both the coat and the sunglasses were nessecary. But as for the gansta pose, well, I think my Skittle could have skipped that. Me and my other Skittle decided she looked like a Weird Eskimo Lady. Her nickname for the week was WEL.

The White

M&M batting in his white uniform. They wore these toward the begining of the season. Now they've moved on to blue. I have no idea if this has any significance or not.

Baseball

.....My Skittles and I have a fairly new obsession: baseball. I think we've been to every home game. We couldn't always stay the entire time, but hey, five minutes is better than nothing, right? My Skittles went to a few last year, and I never went to one. But this year has been different. We've been following their progress pretty consistently. I have to admit that this is the first time in my twenty years of life that I've had any prolonged interest in a sport I wasn't in. To my surprise, I've found spectating is pretty fun.
.....The reason for our new interest? I don't really know. I'd like to blame it on the baseball boys in our bible study, but the ones we talk to the most really don't play. I think I'll just chalk it up to the M&M era and say we are going so we can find out if he's as good as he said he was. So far, he isn't. But he's really not that bad, either.
.....I took some pictures to commemorate this interest, just in case its a one time thing for me.

Arby's, baseball, and life lessons learned

.....My life here in college has been entirely hectic for the past month. The last half of the spring semester is always stressful. This stress has been compounded for me by several factors: this is my first semester working and going to school full-time; this is my last semester at Colby, therefore classes are harder; I have had to search for a new college, and make provisions for moving to an entirely new town; my future roomie (one of my skittles) and I had our first sorta-fight ever; and all of this is probably why I'm fourteen posts behind the required number for my news writing class. My life seems to revolve around Arby's and baseball, and baseball and Arby's.
.....I go to the baseball games so I can survive my life at Arby's. I go back to Arby's so I can earn money and go back to the baseball games..
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.....Actually that's not entirely true. I go to the baseball games because my friends go and that's pretty much the only time I get to hang around them anymore. I go to Arby's so I can earn money and finish school here at Colby without making my parents go entirely broke. But in working at Arby's, I have met some interesting characters who do get caught in a spiral pretty similiar to the one I was almost in. They work at Arby's. They hate it. They get drunk whenever they can so they can forget the bad day they had working at Arby's. When they wake up sober, they have to go back to work at Arby's so they can afford to drink, so they can survive working at Arby's.
.....I never could understand alcoholism before. I never got how on earth someone could just throw their life away, without regret and without looking back. But now that I've seen it, I do understand. Sometimes when things get hard, its easy to get tunnel vision, and to never look any farther than tonight and tomorrow. When that's all you can see, it makes it harder than heck to do anything you don't wanna do. I'd like to give some of my Arby's buddies a boost, a loan, something to get them out of their tunnel and on with life. I have no idea what I would do, however, and in all honestly its really none of my business.
.....I know one thing, though. I never want to be them. I'm more determined than ever now to finish my education and get a decent job I enjoy.

Baseball Update

.....We won our second two games on Tuesday.
.....Our college played their first four home games this weekend. On Saturday we won the first game by three or four. I had to go to work so I missed most of the second game, but one of the guys told me they lost. Pretty badly. They lost again, by a single point, the next day. They redeemed themselves, however, by winning the second game on Sunday.
My skittles and I went to the Sunday games together. They were very entertaining. While baseball in and of itself is one of the more boring sports to watch, the way our team played baseball was very entertaining. Or perhaps I should say the way they incorporated music into their baseball game was very entertaining. Every guy had his own specific walk-out song that they played while they were walking up to the plate. They played music warning up before the games, they played music while the coaches and pitchers on the opposite team conferred on the field, and they played music while they waited for the ref to get his gear on. I like music. Their games were fun to watch.
.....We will face a community college from Colorado this weekend in four home games. Colorado boys are good at baseball (or so my limited observations lead me to believe). Let's hope our guys play hard.

Colby vs. Pratt

.....Long story short: we won.
.....This is a good thing, because when we loose, the baseball boys get boring. They don't exactly get crabby, just less hyper and less disruptive than usual, and my people watching hours are less entertaining.
.....Colby's baseball team played two games against Pratt Saturday, and won both. They were going to play two more games today, but got rained out. The games were rescheduled for Monday, until it was discovered that it is supposed to rain in Pratt tomorrow, too. Then they were rescheduled for Tuesday. We'll have to see how we do, but I'm predicting another pair of victories.

Monday-Baseball

The baseball team split 2-2 in Louisiana last weekend. The team they played was previously undefeated, so looks like its a good deal. I don't think I'd like losing two of my first four games, but hey, I really don't know baseball. When I said something about losing before the season started M&M* informed me that "it's baseball. You can't help it. You're gonna lose games."
Butterfinger was pretty happy with the split. He said all four games were close enough they could have gone either way. He didn't get to play. Practice injury.
The boys are playing two teams in Texas this weekend. From what I hear, both of them are undefeated, too. I hope we get a few more wins.
I was really hoping that the boys would win their first five games. Some of the guys on the team mohawked their hair earlier this year, and there was a rumor that if they won the first five games their coach was gonna follow suit and mohawk his hair, too. I know the coach a little. It would have been hilarious to see him walking around with a mohawk. Maybe next year.
I'll be sure to update you on how the baseball team does this weekend.