Tonight was an awesome night! \u00a0I picked up 30 tickets for Caden’s baseball team to go to the St Paul Saints game for a fun team outing. \u00a0I left work a little early to make sure I could get the tickets and still get home and get back to the ballpark before the gates opened.<\/p>\n
Last season I sent a Pedro Hernandez 2013 Topps Heritage Update card to a person to get signed while Pedro was playing for the Rockies AAA team in Colorado Springs. \u00a0It did not work out for him to get it signed for me so I hoped he would surface somewhere instead of going back to Valenzuela where he was born. \u00a0As luck would have it, he signed with the St Paul Saints this off season. \u00a0When he signed with the Saints, my friend Mark C (clubnuts on SCN) emailed me and asked if I could get his card signed for him. \u00a0I told him I would get to a few games but made no promises.<\/p>\n
I got tickets earlier this season to a game and brought the tickets hoping to get them signed but it rained like crazy and the players did not even come out to warm up so things did not work out. \u00a0My luck changed tonight!<\/p>\n
I dropped Caden and the tickets off with the coach and Cami and I headed down to CHS Field. \u00a0We got there about 15 minutes before the gates opened and waited anxiously. \u00a0Once they opened we headed right down to the end of the Saints dugout and waited. \u00a0None of the players had their uniforms on (it was throw back jersey night to honor Larry Doby) so looking for number 19 was useless. \u00a0While waiting, the Winnipeg second baseman tried to pretend to turn a double play but threw the ball on the ground like there was a first baseman there. \u00a0There wasn’t! \u00a0It rolled right in front of us but kicked off the corner of a fence and rolled just out of our reach. \u00a0A grounds crew member was walking by and gave Cami the ball. \u00a0She was pretty pumped. \u00a0Cami had some generic baseball signature cards and was asking the Saints players to sign one for her. \u00a0She ended up getting five signed! \u00a0While the first guy signed for her, I asked him if Pedro was around. \u00a0He told me he was and would be coming out later. \u00a0A little while later I looked inside the dugout and saw a person sitting in there checking out something on his phone and talking with a couple players. \u00a0I thought it looked like Pedro but was not sure so I was checking the photo roster on my phone and did not see anyone that looked closer to the person other than Pedro. \u00a0I asked one of the other guys who signed for Cami if that was Pedro Hernandez on the bench and he said it was. \u00a0I had locked in on my target! \u00a0About five minutes later he got up to head to the locker room. \u00a0I yelled for him and asked him if he would sign and he came over and signed for me. \u00a0While signing, it was just him and Cami and I so we started talking. \u00a0We chatted for about 10 minutes. \u00a0He was an awesome guy! \u00a0We chatted about the first time I tried to get him (the rainy day) and he remembered that game. \u00a0He said the field was so wet they were trying to tell management they should not play because someone could get injured. \u00a0I asked him how CHS Field compared to other fields. \u00a0He commented that his least favorite was in Amarillo, Texas. \u00a0I asked him if it was because they had 500 fans to a game (picking the number at random) and he laughed and said they would be lucky to have 500. \u00a0It was more like 100! \u00a0We chatted about a couple other things too. \u00a0When I mentioned we have season tickets to the Twins his eyes lit up. \u00a0I could tell he still is hoping to get to the Major League level again. \u00a0Tonight, he hit a home run for me!<\/p>\n
After that everything else was icing on the cake. \u00a0Everyone had a blast at the game. \u00a0The Saints killed the Goldeyes and at one point later in the game, Cami was in the grass berm above the bullpens and asked a player on the Winnipeg team if she could have a ball. \u00a0Of course he tossed her one so she was really pumped to have two baseballs!<\/p>\n
The only bummer of the whole night was that Amy had to go to Des Moines for work and missed out on all the fun.<\/p>\n
Thanks Pedro for signing my cards and the awesome memory of chatting with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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