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All that crouching didn't make Martin grouchy http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodrep1may01,1,1180786.story Here's some of my favorite lines: He must have felt something as the innings kept coming. "I was getting hungry toward the end of the game," he said. "Then I got grumpy." "He could probably catch 162 games," Lieberthal said. "He has youth. He has a great body. He's Robocop. He can just keep going."

... with an extra ticket. Russell isn't playing tonight! I heard it on KFWB's pregame show. While I was at work. Hehe. I got lucky again. My assistant manager wanted me to work on shipment once the night associate came in. SO, I have a FM/AM radio in my purse. I bought a small one at WalGreens on Saturday with the intention of listening to the game on Sunday and at the Dodger games. It's more interesting to watch the game when you hear what's going on. Anyway, I kept it in my purse from yesterday. Plus, the game started after I got off work. I intended to turn it on as I was making my way to the car. Well, since I was in the stock room, I pulled it out and listened to the Dodger pre-game show. Hehe I even got to hear A. Martinez talk to Russell. He was supposed to have one of the next two days off anyway. Here's Russell's standings as of yesterday: Among Dodgers: Batting Walks: Leads with 13 Strike outs: unfortunately, leads with 13 Stolen bases: second behind P...

This should give you a good laugh. Anyway, this morning, I was lying in bed, half-awake, half-asleep. And I hear someone saying, "SEVENTEEN innings! Against the PADRES!" So, what do I do? I get out of bed and run out the door, looking like a mess cause I just got of out of bed. It was a man talking to our mail-lady. I get my mail, wave to the guy. He asks me, "Is that your car?" My mom moved my car so it was parked across the street from my house. I say, yeah. He's like, "awesome. Are you going to the game tonight? It's free blanket night." I told him no, I switched shifts so my friend could go (Sherisse). But I was going to tomorrow and Wednesday's game. He said, "aww! It's free blanket night. It's okay, I'll drop off one for you." How cool was that? I don't think he'll follow through, but I still think it's cool. Still no takers on tha fourth ticket. Maybe I should've offered it to that guy.

So, I may have possibly found a fourth person to go to the game on Tuesday ... just to have one of the original three drop out. Now I'm back to either have one ticket or two. HMMM. Anyway... did anyone get to watch the game today? At San Diego? On TV? AMAZING!!! Seventeen innings?

Okay, so Russell didn't get a hit today. But he did get a DOUBLE PLAY! !! What's the big deal? As far as Vin knew, that was the first time he's ever seen that happened. Anyone else can think of something like that? Sure, there was LoDuca tagging out Kent and Drew at home plate, which happened another time before. BUT... was there anything like this? Runner at third gets caught between home and third in a pickle. Pitcher throws the ball to third baseman, third baseman throws the ball to the catcher, who tags out the runner. THEN he proceeds to go after the runner who was in between second and third to TAG him out as well because he couldn't go back to second. There was already another runner there. Giving the catcher a DOUBLE PLAY. Ok, so I haven't been following baseball very long. Anyone else can think of a) an unassisted double play, b) a catcher doing the unassisted double play, c) a catcher doing the unassisted double play in the infield away from homeplate? LOL...

First ... I got lost. Not terribly lost. I wasn't lost like I didn't know where I was lost. I was lost because I was going the wrong direction. In the end, with Angelina's help, I got to where I was going. Where as that? Walgreens. Why? To pick up pictures I sent to print. Good thing I didn't try to go before class this morning. I would've missed most of class. Then, since I was in Pasadena, I wanted to look for a new sketchbook journal. Sounds easy right? Not when you're as persnickety as I am. What kind was I looking for? Well... it had to be at least 8 x 10, hard cover, and blank pages. No lines. No binding. Why? Because it's for me to tape/paste my newspaper articles in. And after awhile, the book gets fatter from all the articles. It expands and a spiral notebook works better than a bound notebook. No lines because it's just for scrapbooking. And why didn't I want a scrapbook? Too expensive and not enough pages. Three stops later, I settled for ...

Here I am, sitting in my library class ... getting annoyed at the guy sitting next to me. I'm sitting here behind the computer, minding my own business ... and he looks over at my screen and goes: how do you get to that screen? And then as I'm trying to get this blog done, he keeps peeking over at my screen to see what I'm doing! Excuse me? Can you please keep your eyes to your own screen? I liked it when they had the monitors with the screen on them so no one could see what you were doing on your computer screen unless they were looking at it at the same angle you are. Sherisse called me. Tanzania called and asked if we would like to come in at six tomorrow morning. I said, sure. Why not? LOL I can sleep in on Monday. Sherisse and I switched schedules so she could go to a Dodger game. That's okay. I'm going to Tuesday and Wednesday's Dodger games. I'm so excited! Also, Nina called. She wanted to know if I wanted to go with her and her parents to Costco to p...

Remember how on that morning where the lack of food and sleep caused me to buy four tickets? Well, two of the five people I asked to go with me said yes. Now I just need to find that fourth person!

Kevin texted me this: "Did you get today's love is? It's a reflection of him when you look at a mirror. Did that happen? When yo usaw Russell in the mirror when you looked? LOL"

Cuz then you get a very cranky person who goes and spends $120 to four tickets to a Dodger game. LOL You can't start a blog entry without mentioning the Dodgers, now can you? First of all, I didn't get to bed till about four AM. I got off work around 10:20, picked up food, and didn't get home till about 10:45. Naturally, having just ate fast food, I didn't want to go to bed. So I stayed up, uploading pictures onto bebo and flickr. Went to bed. My mom woke up up at seven to tell me to let the service guy in when he shows up. He shows up at ten and wakes me up, considering I probably fell asleep around 8. Not in a good mood. There's nothing to make in the fridge that's quick and filling. So here I am, waiting for the service guy to finish up so I can go get some MORE fast food. And my parents wonder where does my paycheck go. It goes to keeping me alive by feeding me. Not only that ... I just spent $120 on four Field Box tickets for the May 1st game. I CAN'T W...

I had the day off! So, after a bit of shopping, getting plenty of stares, and wasting time waiting for my mom ... we went to the Dodgers' game! We left Nina's after six and got to the Stadium about 6:30. We got to our seats about ten minutes before first pitch. Russell was warming up with Lowe in left field, in front of us. Mind you, we were in the reserve level seating. But hey, they were free tickets. Anyway, there weren't too many people around at the time. Russell and Lowe went into the bullpen and so I started taking pictures of the other players warming up. Then it was time for the Star-Spangled Banner. When the Dodgers took the field, a bunch of little kids got to run out there and get an autograph from the players. It was so cute. I saw that on a televised game once, and didn't know what was going on! While Angelina, Nina and I were making a food run, Russell missed throwing a ball and Lowe fell trying to get it. And Roberts hit a home run. That might've bee...

No, my love has not come along (Ella Fitzgerald song I think). At last! We fixed our internet connection. The house phone is disconnected for now, but that's what cell phones are for, right? So, we moved the modem and the new router I bought today to my brother's room. We had something to split our one phone jack from one line to two. We discovered that if the phone line is plugged into the jack, our internet works fine. Before, the following websites wouldn't work: myspace, one of my credit cards, mycheckfree, and other sites. And, I couldn't upload pictures on Bebo or make any changes to my profile or stuff like that. Plus, lately, the Dodgers' website hasn't been working either. My Windows Messenger / MSN messenger stopped working too! Ta-da! Everything works now! Man, I wish I had done this years ago. Ever since we got DSL and the router, our internet has been weird. I am so glad I got fed up with it. The Dodgers' website not working was the last straw! ...

I was right. No pictures in the newspaper. There was an article in the LA times. Still, I was hoping for a picture! Anyway, that's what the internet is for. Also ... wow! I'm up to 88 visitors! How cool is that. LOL. Can't wait to hit that 100 mark! And finally... the most visitors I've received on a day was six ... now it's up to eight! I'm excited. Sorta. Even though no one leaves comments, at least I know people are "looking" at my blog. Makes it sorta feel... worthwhile? So, I know I'm a crazy lady. Oh well. Guess I'm just looking for ... I dunno... justification? Personally, as a writer, I need to know that I am writing for something. I guess. Or maybe I just write to write. Who knows. Certainly not me.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Russell Martin follows through on a grand slam in the ... - MLB - Yahoo! Sports GRAND SLAM BABY! LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 21: Russell Martin #55 of the Los Angeles Dodgers ... - MLB - Yahoo! Sports I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!! "Oh, hey, that's my man right there." Andre Ethier, Living Spaces (La Mirada). April 21, 2007

August 2 - Free Russell Martin Bobblehead! I AM SO THERE!!! Who's with me? You can also go to dodgers.com/martinsong to pick the song that will play when Russell goes on the plate. My computer is being lame and hasn't been opening the Dodger website lately. If you haven't seen it yet, go to latimes.com, search for Russell Martin, and look at the picture captioned "Dodgers martin slam." LOVE IT! If it wasn't copyrighted, I'd post it right here. LOVE THE PICTURE!!!! LOL ... another quote, "I want to talk a little bit about Russell Martin." LOL that came from a caller from Long Beach I think. Who doesn't want to talk a little bit about Russell Martin. Dude! This guy doesn't think Russell is going to be a super-star. He thinks it's too early to say that.

FIRST GRAND SLAM OF HIS CAREER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For those of you who missed it... RUSSELL MARTIN (!!!!!!!!!!!!) hit his first grand slam of his career, winning the Dodgers game, 7-3 in the bottom of the tenth inning!!! I missed all but the last inning of the game. Well, okay, last half! I got off work and was wondering why I didn't get my Dodger update yet. The game was still going on at 10! That's why! They were tied, 3-3, at the top of the tenth inning. Since it wasn't broadcasted on any channel that I may have at home, I raced over to Nina's to watch the last inning. Things weren't looking too good with one out in the bottom of the tenth inning. With one man on base, I was like, please don't hit into a double play. Nomar gets out. Pierre almost gets tagged out. Phew. Kent gets on base. Two men. No double plays, okay, boys? Gonzo gets walked. Here comes my man. I told my friends, bases loaded, here's his chance to hit a grand slam. And what does my baby do? H...

This morning, I got up at 6:15 AM just to meet Andre Ethier! By the time I left the house, the first person was already at Living Spaces. First things first, since it was so early, Starbucks run! Thank goodness I filled up my tank last night ... as cold as it was. Anyway, picked up the LADs (L.A. Dodgeraholics, as I will be calling the group for short) and we were off at seven. Well, just a little bit before. Anyway, we got there about 7:25 and there was hardly anyone there! Okay, so the thing didn't open till ten. There were about ten people in front of us (one of them being an Angels fan). We chatted with them. They brought out some free coffee around nine. By then, the line had grown and started to wrap around the building. We were the first 15, so we couldn't see how long the line was. And a catering truck arrived for a little bit and sold food. They opened the doors and led us through a bunch of recliners and made us wait about fifteen minutes before Andre showed up. They...

Well, in this case ... the sky's bluer on the other side. While I was driving home, on the Downtown side of Dodger Stadium, the clouds are dark and gloomy. On the other hand, on the L.A. River side of Dodger Stadium, the clouds are not as heavy. You can actually see the blue sky! So, today has been quite a day. I picked up Sarah (after stopping to pick up an umbrella at Walgreens) and then we went Angelina in Pasadena. She got to the parking structure just before we did. So, she waited in her car for us. We all had blue umbrellas. Quite a coincidence. It was raining, drizzling, as we walked around Pasadena. It lightened up enough at one point that we didn't need our umbrellas. But started again so we did need them. On the way to Barnes and Noble, we had to step over some running water. I guess Sarah misjudged the depth, because she stepped in it, and the water went over her left foot! We went to Barnes and Noble, got some coffee, shopped around. We left, but then had to go back...

Well, it's about six o'clock and the game starts in another hour and forty minutes. So far, the rain as let up. How do I know? Well... I do live in Elysian Valley in the shadows of Elysian Hills, where, guess what? Dodgers' Stadium is located. LOL. I live probably less than ten minutes away from Dodger Stadium. In fact, if fans haven't started packing the freeway yet, I may attempt to get on the 110 to get to Chinatown to pick up my mom in a few minutes. Anyway, when I got up this morning around 9:30 (thank you mr. man at the door), it was drizzling. Since it was supposed to rain today, I ran out and took down my Dodger flag from my car. The "Think Blue" and "Go Russell" I wrote on my car last night is still on my windows. Though, they appear more white than blue. So, if you see a silver/gray/green looking car driving back with (or without) the Dodger flag, and writings on the car, that's a me! On the driver's side, if you look closely enough...

The All-Star ballot is up! And who's on it this year from the Dodgers? First off, RUSSELL MARTIN!!! Then there's Nomar Garciaparra, Rafael Furcal, Jeff Kent, Juan Pierre, Andre Ethier Who did I vote for? Catcher: Duh, my very own Dodger husband - Russell Martin 1st Base: Again, duh, Angelina's very own Dodger husband - Nomar Garciaparra 2nd Base: well, I decided to stick with our Dodgers, and voted for the old man, Jeff Kent 3rd Base: David Wright. Okay, I know he's a Met, but I like him. If I could have a Mets' husband, it would be DAVID WRIGHT. Short-stop: Nina's Dodger husband (for now, until she trades him in for Brady Clark), Rafael Furcal Outfielders: Andre Ethier (another Dodger), Shawn Green (I know, a Mets, but he was a Dodger once upon a time), and I wrote in Brady Clark. Let's see who ends up on this year's All-Star team. As for today's game, after last night's humiliating loss (2-7) against the Rockies, I had absolute confidence that ...