What a Base!

Today was a Sunday and that meant it was Cami’s turn to go to the Twins game with me. Cami decided not to do the kids autograph line like she usually does and instead wanted to go down to the right field foul territory and see who was signing.  She ended up getting Casey Fien and Ryan O’Rourke on a baseball that will be the start of her 2016 Twinsfest baseball.
If that isn’t cool, get this story.  I could not make this up if I tried!  Back on August 1, Cami was a Grounds Crew Buddy and was assigned to second base.  That meant that at the end of the 5th inning, she ran out with a member of the grounds crew to change bases. Her job was to carry the new base to second, pull out the old one, put the new one in place and jump on it.  As she was running off she said hi to Eduardo Escobar and he waved back to her.  Fast forward to today’s game and, what has become our tradition, we look at all the cool things at the game used kiosk.  The person working there today asked if he could help me with anything.  I said “I have a long shot” and he said try me.  I told him I was looking for the base from August 1st.  Not just any base either but SECOND base.  He said “I have a base from August 1st” and flipped it over to see it was second base.  Wow.  Fate.  I checked the hologram and found out it was the base that was used at second base from innings 6-9 on August 1st.  What are the odds.  I went to our seats to think about it (it was $300 because it has the special tags on it for the 50th anniversary of the 1965 team on it).  Later on I told Cami was going to go to the restroom and would be back soon.  I ran down to the kiosk and bought it.  She was so excited when I came back with it. She said it is her birthday present for the next two years!  I figured I could not pass up the opportunity that was so amazingly put in front of me.  What are the odds?