Post graduation from college I took a little vacation excursion to Durham, North Carolina to see the Durham Bulls - AAA affiliate of my Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Had a really excellent time, although I will avoid any driving through South Carolina in the near future. My greatest rant about the whole thing would be that the program listed Dan Wheeler with the Norfolk Tides (see I tried to plan it to be there to see the Richmond Braves but my exams and pending graduation messed all of that up *grumble*). I'm thinking woohoo he got traded, and it's my lucky day. But noooooooo just a evil error about how they messed it up.) Oh well, had a nice time anyway.
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| This is my cheap attempt at photographing the original Bulls stadium - did not run into Kevin Costner there if you were wondering. :) Oh yeah, there's the smoking bull too. |
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| This has to be my runner-up view. My viewing pleasure sticks with the bullpen. But this is a photo of the dugout to show what good seats we had. Plus it's like all pitchers in there - Jimenez, Standridge, Phelps...etc. |
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| Aubrey Huff. The typical photo on one of my rolls of film. |
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| Aubrey Huff, again. This kid's gotta be wondering if I'm ever gonna leave him alone. Hehe, actually got him to sign it the first game I got to back in St. Pete. |
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| See I told you. Jason Smith taking on first base coaching duties. Probably my favorite call-up of the year. |
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| Jason Jimenez. Hey, it's probably lucky though. All three of these guys got called up days after my taking these photos. |
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| Carl Crawford - he slammed a homerun the first day of spring training and then overheard us talking about it the next day and just beamed over it -- gotta love a guy who does that. |
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| Me getting my Fan Fest photo signed my Wilmy Casceres |
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| This is just after the Bulls whomped on the Norfolk Tides. They went into first place on this day. Pretty exciting excursion if I do say so. |