Making a pass (out)

Due to circumstances beyond my control the last two days will be lumped into 1 post.

That's not really the truth, but I'm going with it anyway. Wednesday was a mixed bag of events. It started off of fairly normal then things hit the bricks in the afternoon. For the 2nd time in 8 shows the John Jacobson Memorial Editing Suite decided to malfunction. This time with much elbow grease we were able to pop the top of the deck open and release our tape. Jussero lent his hand by taping the whole ordeal, thank for the support pal. Somehow we managed to feed even earlier than our feed time, who knows how that works.

After dinner at a restaurant who's mascot is an owl and motto is: "Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined", Curtis, Dan, and I went out for a few drinks. Speaking of unrefined that would describe the dives Curtis took us to, and I'm a proud resident of Renton, UKC (unincorporated King County) where we prefer our cars on blocks and mullets on our women. Needless to say it was a long night, I got home and tried to text a friend (after failing to be able to work the phonebook to make a call). The reason I say tried is I passed out mid text (mind you it was 11 pm) and when I awoke at 2 am my phone was laying next to me still opened and mid-sentence. Being the trooper I am, I finished the text and went to bed.

Thursday saw our 2nd trip to Surprise in 3 days. This time to see the always exciting Kansas City Royals. Of course the Royals didn't disappoint laying an 11-3 beating on the hapless Mariners bullpen. The turning point was in the 4th inning when Jorge Campillo pulled off an almost impossible feat giving up 5 runs in 50 seconds. First a bases loaded triple then on the next pitch a 2-run homer. The Royals hit two moon shots that cleared the berm in the outfield, seriously how do you give up those to the Royals? About the only positive, for me at least, was seeing fellow Lindbergh High School Alumnus (UKC Represent!) David Riske throw a scoreless inning of relief for the Royals. As for my over/under prediction from Tuesday, well it was technically the over. The announced "crowd" was 3,800 and change. There clearly weren't as many people there as there were Tuesday, I just don't think they wanted the Mariners and Royals to feel bad.

Friday brings Camden Kelly* and the Rockies to Peoria to knock around Jeff Weaver and our beloved** Mariners.

*Not actually scheduled to appear

**By beloved, I mean I love that I get a paycheck following this team.