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Photos: Ten outs in Hickory, North Carolina

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What I mean by “Ten outs in Hickory,” means that I literally only stayed at the game for ten outs being recorded.  In other words, my brother and I stuck around the game for just a little bit over one inning of a nine inning game, before leaving.  This was also after driving 2.5 hours from Raleigh to get to Hickory.

This is the kind of shit why I always “joke” about being the worst baseball fan in the world.  I drove 2.5 hours to Hickory, because they were giving out a Chipper Jones bobblehead, that I really wanted.  As for the game itself, I honestly didn’t really care about it, and after walking around the small minor league park, I felt that I had gotten enough feel for the place.

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Photos: Colorado Springs and more Denver

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The following camera dump is the remainder of the photographs I took whilst out in Colorado.  The second day of my trip, I ventured out to Colorado Springs with the main objective being the minor league park located there.  But at the same time, it was a good excuse to see the world a little bit, and I wandered about Colorado Springs to see what this city had to offer.

Beautiful nature, that was for sure; I found a place called “The Garden of Gods,” and there was no way I couldn’t check it out.  Although I probably only saw about a thirtieth of the place, I still spent some time walking and hiking some of their trails, and took in some of the mountainous sights.  And before I headed back into suburbia to see the ballpark, I passed through Old Colorado City, an old town that I honestly do not know the historical significance of.

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Photos: Rome Braves minor league day trip

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Admittedly, I haven’t been writing as much lately these days, and to be honest it’s not that I don’t have anything to write about, or that any particular things suck or anything right now, I guess it’s just that I simply haven’t felt like writing much these days.  It’s been a funny summer that way, since I haven’t been going to many baseball games, save for special occasions and designated baseball trips, and I haven’t really been doing much writing or playing video games either.  It’s like time just flies, without much substance behind any of it.

Anyway, I went up to the sticks of Rome, Georgia, 55 miles north of Atlanta to catch the minor league Rome Braves.  It was a hot, miserable, no-breeze evening, with like 800% humidity, but there was a free bobblehead involved, so I still went, because I’m a sucker for free chintzy shit like that.

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