So last weekend I went to see some Phillies/Twins interleague play. At first I was like, “Oh boy! I am GUARANTEED to have one of my two favorite teams win each game!” Which is wonderful until I considered that in order for that to happen, one of my favorite teams would also be a guaranteed loser. *sigh* I went to last Saturday and Sunday’s games, and in both cases, the Phillies lost. But I had a grand time anyway,and here’s the proof, in pictures…
Before Saturday’s game, they had the Phillies take the field with their children to play a dads-vs-kids game. I have to say that the Hamels family is simply adorable:

And doesn’t Cole look like he really enjoys being a daddy? 🙂

While watching the Phillies families on the field, I got to meet twins backup catcher Drew Butera (who hit his first major league home run later that day, by the way!), who undoubtedly thinks I’m an idiot for not catching my baseball when he threw it back to me. Oops. 😉

Once the Phillies were off the field, I went to watch the Twins warm up. Here are Tolbert and Hudson.

And here are Morneau and Hudson.

I thought I was dreaming, but Justin Morneau came over to the fence to sign autographs!

Here I am with Morneau (well, it’s the back of my head, anyway). He was really nice and very humble. I thanked hi for having such an awesome year and told him I picked him first for my fantasy team, and he grinned and thanked me. (By the way, he has the most AMAZING blue eyes. Wow.)

The Phillies ushers were kind enough to let those of us seeking Twins autographs stay by the fence a long time. I was still down there when the national anthem was being sung. And what a view I had for the national anthem…

It was a good thing I stayed down there. After the national anthem was over, I saw Tolbert headed toward the dugout. While everyone else was yelling for Span or Cuddyer to come on over, I called out to Tolbert. I was the only one who yelled for him, and as soon as he heard his name, he looked at me, briefly conferred with a coach, and then trotted over to sign autographs–I thought that was very nice!

The next day, I went down to the fence to see who else I could meet before the game started. Here’s Morneau, Tolbert, Cuddyer and Hudson warming up.

The bullpen was also out warming up. This is Ron Mahay–I got his autograph, too.

I don’t have pictures of them, but I also got Matt Guerrier, Jesse Crain, and Scott Baker to sign my baseball. Baker totally gave me a bit of a weird look since I was wearing a Phillies shirt with a Twins hat and handed him a Phillies pen to sign with. He’s cute, so I’ll forgive him for that…although I’m not so sure I can forgive him for imploding yesterday against the Mets. (I was at yesterday’s game too, but wasn’t trying to meet anyone. I did, however, get burnt to a crisp. Hey, at least I’m Phillies red now!)
Here are the baseballs I got signed at the Phillies/Twins series. I had Morneau sign one ball, and the other 6 Twins signed the other one. Seriously, I’ve been fighting the urge to sleep with the Morneau signed ball under my pillow. 😉
