I had a chance to go to Fresno-CO Springs game Tuesday

some thoughts:

1) The Sky Sox' mascot is just as freaking annoying as that stupid purple dinosaur. I actually walked up to the guy (girl?) and told him/her that the antics of constantly trying to distract the other team is disrespectful to the game and he/she should cut it out. No response. Typical of this b.s. organization.

2) The fans are just as bad; for some reason, they were getting on Rohlinger. I had my seven year old son with me and he was just perplexed that anyone would act that way.

3) Jesus Guzman might as well have a shovel instead of a glove out there in left field. He did hit a home run, which is always nice, but it did seem to be wind aided.

4) Whoever the guy is that the Giants had close out the game throws really, really hard.

5) Martinez had good stuff; if you go by the stadium radar gun readings he had low 90s fastball and his offspeed stuff was mid 70s, which had the sky sox hitters off balance all night.

6) Paul Loduca plays for the sky sox, which is funny. He got tossed as well. I told my son he (Loduca) was likely having more roid rages. He (my son) asked me what a roid rage was. I told him that Loduca, like many players that came up in the Dodger organization, likes to cheat and bend the rules and one of the ways he does this is to take performance enhancing drugs. My son asked me if any of the Grizzlies take performance enhancing drugs and I remarked that they are too busy helping old ladies across the street to do things like that.

7) Colorado Springs stadium is really crappy compared to the other AAA stadiums I have been in (all over the place in AZ and also at Albuquerque). two dollar tuesday is a nice touch however. 7 dollar beers and dogs suck, however.

8) Ryan Rohlinger played well. He's also a nice guy; he managed to ignore those guys chirping at him and went 3-4 and played pretty well in the field. After the game, the players have to walk up beside the stands to get to their locker room and he was one of the last guys. When I saw that it was him, both me and my son mentioned to him that he had a nice game and that it was b.s that those idiots were chirping at him all game long. I think he appreciated that a bit and he handed my 7 year old one of his bats as a keepsake. I thought that was really nice, and my 7 year old thinks it's the best thing ever. He was clutching it the whole ride home and he couldn't wait to show his mom.