It’s Mother’s Day!
May 11, 2008
Today’s the day I get breakfast in bed and a singing card, and also the day MLB players honor their mothers and support the Susan G. Komen For The Cure by swinging pink bats. Wow, for the second year in a row, we’re playing the Marlins on Mother’s day. Of course, last year we swept them out of town. No such luck this year, but I can hope for one little win for “My Day”, right? All players, coaches, and umpires will wear pink wristbands and ribbon decals. Ten Nats will use the pink bats - Ronnie Belliard, Aaron Boone, Cristian Guzman, Willie Harris, Nick Johnson, Lastings Milledge, Wily Mo Pena, and Ryan Zimmerman. Dmitri Young and Johnny Estrada also planned to use pink bats, but are on the disabled list.
The bats and commemorative home plate will be auctioned off following the game - I believe online - to raise additional funds for breast cancer research. 200 breast cancer survivors will take place on the “Starting 9″ and sit behind home plate.
Here’s hoping for a win! I wasn’t originally going to the game because other responsibilities called. Since it’s going to rain (supposedly), Mr. Chatter decided we should go to the game instead since cutting down trees and gardening doesn’t look possible. We bought a family four-pack and will be in the 2nd level, so I’m not sure if I’ll get any decent photos. (Sorry, Brick!! He just decided this yesterday!)
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May 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Guess you weren’t a good enough mother this year.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I was for the most part - guess I crapped out toward the end of the year!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
So where were you yesterday? We were in 221. I was thinking that you’d be in the first level.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
We tried to sit in our regular seats thinking whoever held the tickets wouldn’t show, but apparently they traded them in because people showed up with the little stubby dot-matrix printed tickets, so we went to our Family Fun-Pack seats in 226. Turns out the number is deceiving - it’s really the third level! Even numbers are up, odd numbers are down. So my only photos are from the pre-game and a couple from when we snuck into the last row in left field on the first level to get out of the rain.