Delmarva Shorebirds 2007 home opener

...and you never know who you might meet!

Geez, I had just seen John Robinson not three hours before (more on that in a later post) and here he is with Joe Albero, who also stopped by for awhile before his next newsworthy event, the Bluelight Special show downtown. That's one reason why I couldn't be a politician or do news coverage like Joe does; when it comes to a game I'm there until inning number 9 or later.

But I had a good time watching the opener and getting back to baseball again. I also rectified an oversight from last year, now I'm a paid member of the Shorebirds Fan Club. And there were two things that I liked about the new ownership. One is not raising the ticket or food prices this year, at least not that I noticed. The second thing is the improved sound system, although the field hostess could use a little bit louder mike. But there were almost 7,000 folks there and I had a loud group of kids behind me, so maybe that was the cause.

On the lighter side, I know Joe has a picture of this and so did I (just not cropworthy) but Mayor Tilghman did throw a pretty horrible first pitch. I actually got a pretty good shot of Brad Bergesen's first home pitch, one I may see how it prints.

Obviously another thing I enjoy doing at games is take photos. (Where do you think I get my SotW photos from? I have most of our right-hand hitters now, plus a few field shots.) But I also take photos of the visiting players, in this case the West Virginia Power.

I just thought that was a pretty cool shot. Normally I don't sit on the visitors' side so I took advantage of the opportunity.

Unfortunately, at least for this game, the struggles that characterized 2006 continued - good pitching done in by poor hitting and an untimely error. All three runs in the game were unearned, ours scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth. So here were the unhappy totals:

Finally, one thing I like about my camera is the ability to do rudimentary video shooting with it. This seems to really work well with fireworks. So enjoy this brief snippet. You have 18 more chances at fireworks this season and (hopefully, although tomorrow's forecast is pessimistic at best) 69 more home games as well.