Day 9: Mr. Baseball

Wednesday: Texans AND Astros.

Last day for me covering Texans OTAs...sad day, but Mini camp begins next week.

Astros vs Cubs Wednesday night. I stayed for what was a great game. It was a full day.

It started out at 11am at Texans practice. I already had the Marantz with me after taking it with me on Monday to save some time getting there. I got there and retrieved some audio from Travis Johnson and coach Kubiak. good stuff. I had a pretty full plate that day and apparently so did a lot of people. I got back to the station where I also would be meeting up with Donnie to take the photo for the Intern webpage.

I get in and Shaun is in the studio saying he is filling in for Robert today and is headed down to the ballpark in a few minutes. I remembered that Robert filled in the morning, thus would probably want to take the afternoon. I went over to Laura's office where I found Robert. He told me he emailed the people down at Minute Maid telling them I would be there so I would have a pass. I asked Laura about the idea for the photo and told her my decision.

I decided to go with Donnie holding a bunch of equipment in front of the production door. Donnie was busy with a live concert that was being put on by Mix 96.5. Mat -somebody- was there performing live. A bunch of hyped up 16-year-old girls were there to watch. Of course they had to also block off my hallway to and from Laura's office and the prod studio so I am walking the long way past their set up and this tool promo guy is up in my face like "hey guy, where are you headed"..."past you" is my response. I end up running into him 2 more times. It does not help that they are taking photos right there at the intersection where I need to get buy and it doubly does not help that I also hold my own camera.

Finally Donnie finishes up after I complete editing my audio for the Texans and we get to taking the photo for the site. I take about 6 photos to the agreement of his colleagues.

Off to the ballpark...stopped and grabbed lunch at Whataburger. Tried that new Honey BBQ Chicken strip sandwich. That thing is delicious.

I get to the ballpark and walk in and talk to Ron. Ron is awesome, he always has a new story. Today he talked about a Cub he had asked to show their ID and that player thought it was ridiculous that he was being told to show his ID because he was a professional baseball player. Protocol. simply.

I sit with Shaun until just after 3, then head out to where media picks up their credentials for the game. The intern is in there... ;) She comes to the window and asks for my ID. She checks her list for the game and notices that my name is not there. I ask her if she is sure about that. She checks with her boss who might have just received the email late and not put it on the list. I call Robert to see if there was something we could do.

I gave his name to her and she I guess was able to clear it up even before I could leave a message with Robert. She remembered my name and more importantly how to spell it without asking for my ID again. She was really nice about it, but after the craziness, I was about to get my pass to the locker room which was my next stop.

In the locker room, Shaun and I along with the rest of the media and the few players that were in there all took in the 1992 classic baseball movie, "Mr Baseball" with Tom Selleck and that guy who also played Pedro Cerano in the Major League movies. Funny stuff. Go Dragons!

We talked to Lance and Tejada about their milestones and Tejada about possibly being on the trade block?!?

Cooper then talked at 4pm

I watched it all.

Long story.

I stuck around for the game. Good game it was. 2-1 Astros thanks to a bases loaded RBI single from Geoff Blum in the bottom of the 9th. He drove in both runs.

I got the giveaway that night, a 'Celebrating 10 Years at MMP' T-shirt from Methodist.

cool stuff.