{"id":647,"date":"2014-07-14T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:14:39","slug":"2014-all-star-fanfest-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"2014 All Star Fanfest Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was an awesome day. \u00a0We got up early and met up with Cayden’s family<\/a> and drove to the Convention Center for a day of fun. \u00a0We got there well before the gates opened so that we would be sure to get the Tony Oliva bobblehead they were giving to the first 1000 people through the doors. \u00a0We knew that Andrew McCutchen was going to be there today but was not scheduled to sign autographs but was going to be at the Skills Diamond. \u00a0The event happened to be a parent\/child ballgame with a rubber wiffle ball. \u00a0From the previous time Cami partook in the clinic, I knew we needed to sign up right away so we headed to get our waiver stamp and sign up for McCutchen’s time slot. \u00a0I had absolutely no interest in playing the game but for each kid, they needed a parent to sign up for the parent side. \u00a0So, for Cami’s sake, I signed up. \u00a0Everyone ran around until it was time to show up for the clinic. \u00a0I was soooo nervous. \u00a0I have not swung a bat in 15 years or so! \u00a0The kids batted first with Cami being the second batter. \u00a0She ripped the ball and McCutchen<\/a> told her “Wooooo! \u00a0You have a nice swing!”. \u00a0When it was my turn to bat, I swung on the first pitch Cutch threw me and popped out to second base. \u00a0Cami ripped a single in her second at bat. \u00a0When it was done, Andrew signed autographs for the kids. \u00a0Cami got a baseball <\/a>signed by McCutchen and a memory of being on his team<\/a> she will not forget.<\/p>\n

We then headed to the MLB tv booth where John Smoltz was signing autographs and taking pictures with people. \u00a0The line was long the the person running it came up to Cami and asked who she was with. \u00a0I thought it was strange but Cami responded “Dad, my mom and my brother.” \u00a0She then cut the line off right after us. \u00a0It was really cool. \u00a0Caden was running around and we could not get a hold of him so Cayden took his place. \u00a0We got three baseballs and a Sports Illustrated signed by Smoltz. \u00a0He could not have been nicer.<\/p>\n

We walked around a little more and Cami made a commercial<\/a> for Fox Sports North. A little while later we called it a day and headed to Target Field for the Home Run Derby.<\/p>\n

We did not get any more autographs the rest of the All Star Week but kind of chilled the final day. \u00a0We got to the Red Carpet Parade and watched all the players come down the parade and then went to the All Star Game. \u00a0Some of the players we saw were Robinson Cano<\/a>, Yu Darvish<\/a>, Aroldis Chapman<\/a>, Clayton Kershaw<\/a>, Mike Matheny<\/a>, Andrew McCutchen<\/a>, Yasiel Puig<\/a>, Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>, Pat Neshek<\/a>, Glen Perkins<\/a> and\u00a0Kurt Suzuki<\/a>. \u00a0Mike Trout<\/a> tossed Cami a mini foam ball with “Troutstanding” on it. \u00a0One of the funnier things was when Cayden’s brother Josh yelled to Clint Hurdle<\/a> to “Raise the Jolly Roger!”. \u00a0Clint yelled back “Who said ‘Raise the Jolly Rancher?'” \u00a0I don’t know if he was kidding or not but it was pretty funny.<\/p>\n

The All Star Game was awesome. \u00a0Our seat mates Heidi & Bob<\/a> got to take the big flag out on the field before the game. \u00a0To see Derek Jeter<\/a> make his final appearance and the game end up with the Twins battery of Glen Perkins and Kurt Suzuki<\/a> was really special. \u00a0The entire All Star week was awesome and gave us<\/a> memories we will never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was an awesome day. \u00a0We got up early and met up with Cayden’s family and drove to the Convention Center for a day of fun. \u00a0We got there well before the gates opened so that we would be sure to get the Tony Oliva bobblehead they were giving to the first 1000 people through … Continue reading “2014 All Star Fanfest Day 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-caden","category-cami","category-ip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}