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Well, it’s over. The autographed balls are stored with all my other ones. The suitcase is unpacked. The souvenir t-shirts have been handed out to the kids. And I’m back at work.

Monday’s game was really good. Usually the games in spring training aren’t high-stress because teams are worried about their pitcher’s pitch count, how many plate appearances the players get, how a young prospect does in a certain game situation, etc. The score is the last thing they worry about. Monday’s game was really good.

We sat in the second row back, just to the 1st base side of home plate. The Braves on-deck circle was 15 feet away. Yeah, great seats. There were a lot of great defensive plays that added to the excitement as well.

Autographs on Monday were good. Dad stayed over on the Braves side of the park during batting practice and got several prospects’ autographs as well as Ryan Langerhans, Terry Pendleton, and a couple other starters whose names escape me.

I stayed over on the Astros side, hoping to catch Craig Biggio. He walked by, and I asked, but he said he had some things to do. He was really polite though, and he came back to sign later, but I wasn’t lucky enough to get to the front of the crowd in time to catch him. I was able to get Woody Williams, Mike Lamb, and Brad Ausmus to sign.

We really enjoyed the stadium there in Kissimmee.  The ushers were courteous, they checked our bags before the gates opened, they weren’t trying to keep fans from getting autographs (like that idiot usher at the Phillies’ stadium the night before).  We’re going to make Kissimmee a regular stop in our annual trip.  We enjoyed the visit there, and we felt like the Astros were glad to have us there to watch a game.

I’ve got a bunch of photos to upload.  Those will come when I can get to them…probably a couple of days.