{"id":1533,"date":"2008-04-18T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/game-ball-7-not-this-time\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T14:27:00","slug":"game-ball-7-not-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/game-ball-7-not-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Game ball #7? Not this time."},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the first time in awhile I almost caught a game ball. It all started when my friend, Kelly McMahon, texted me that she was sitting in Section 112 of Wrigley Field and that she had the mitt I lent her on Opening Day<\/a>. My buddy, Mike Holzman, and I decided that her seats were better than ours so we headed down in her direction. Her friend had been using my mitt, but once I arrived she gave the mitt back to me.<\/p>\n

A few innings later, a towering foul ball was lifted in our direction. None of us thought the ball would land in our section. However, the ball started to fall in our direction. Next thing I knew we were waiting for it to land. Thud! The ball bounced of Kelly\u2019s friend\u2019s hand \u2013 the same guy who had been using my mitt until I took it back. Oops!<\/p>\n

The ball bounced a few rows in front of us and that was the end of our foul ball chances. Now, the conversation of catching foul balls generally does not come up unless a ball falls on you. When asked, I said I had either caught or picked up 6 game balls before (5 coming from 1993-1996 and 1 in 2004). Everything thinks I am lucky, but I tell them it\u2019s because I have been to too many games. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile.<\/p>\n

As for the game, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 596th career home run, Joey Votto had a career high 5 RBI, Tom Arnold sang the 7th inning stretch and the Cubs lost. After the game I went home to work since I had been at the game all afternoon. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nFor the first time in awhile I almost caught a game ball. It all started when my friend, Kelly McMahon, texted me that she was sitting in Section 112 of Wrigley Field and that she had the mitt I lent her on Opening Day. My buddy, Mike Holzman, and I decided that her seats were better than ours so we headed down in her direction. Her friend had been using my mitt, but once I arrived she gave the mitt back to me.
\nA few innings later, a towering …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}