Now the fun side of the weekend.

As you are well aware the Marlins were doing there fantasy auction last night so they had there Tommy Bahama pre-party and then event tonight. But it all started at the park on Sunday when the girlfriend got to meet her idol Mr Jeff Conine and steal one of the 12 and under binders...damn women and their flirtatious powers.

They lose, whats new... and we go off to the player signing (hopefully) outside the ballpark and none other than the man the myth the legend JUSTIN RUGGIANO signs my ball! WTF amazingness!

One of those you try and keep your cool moments when you know its just so damn hard! but the fun didnt end there because we went to Tommy Bahama for the pre-party and ran into a lonely Scott Cousins... NO ONE wanted to talk to him so he came up to a little boy next to us to strike up a conversation. This proceeded with us talking to him for a solid 10 minutes. Honestly Scott Cousins would be someone I would hang out with in real life even if his profession wasn't major league baseball player.

Great guy. Then all the heavy hitters started coming in. Ruggiano and Cishek with his fear of EVERYTHING. He is scared of shellfish...whoops.

Now the bullshit here is that Tommy Bahama wanted us to spend 100 dollars at their store so we can have them sign something for us...Talk about a nice bait and switch. Honestly what the hell....

Our hitting coach who is a nice funny guy but will most likely be jobless by the end of this season. Poor guy. And then your voice on the TV that just becomes a fixture from April to September. Rich Waltz

He was doing a machoman pose there for me. Sadly he didnt want to switch careers with me and become a teacher and let me become the voice of Miami Marlins on FSFlorida...What gives.

Then finally on Monday LoMo did a Meet and Greet at a Jiffy Lube which my girlfriend could not contain her excitement in meeting him. 

Its made her season. Sadly maybe only 100 people showed up which is fine I guess for a 11 am in the middle of Miami Gardens on a Monday.

In two days, we have met and conversed with so many players that I didn't think was possible. It makes spring training pale in comparison to what I've seen here. It makes a huge difference when you actually get to personally know the guys on the team and what they go through. In my girlfriends case, its actually allowed her to grow and cherish the Miami Marlins and she actually enjoys the games she attends instead of being that girl you drag to the game. May be a strategy that you could use in the future to convince a spouse of yours!