Beisbol

Having lived in the frozen North for the last 35 years I'm embarrassed to say that I've never been to a professional sporting event. So when Max's girlfriend Skye wanted to go to what was to be the last Mazatlan Venados game of the year I said, "we're in".

The Mexican league is big Ju-Ju here. Mazatlan just 3 years ago won the whole shebang and then went on to the Carribean World Series and beat the Dominican Republic in what is the best magor league baseball next to ours, you know, the Yankees. I was impressed at the speed of the game. T.V. doesn't do it justice, these guys throw fast, run fast and do alot of scratching and spitting. Plus theres a decided american influence, each team is allowed so many gringos and our team the Venados includes a famous baseball name, Tim Raines Jr. The first pic is the scene from our seats, we're surounded by baseball fanatics, beer at the end of the aisle and just about any junk food you'd like. As you know from past blogs, Pacifico Beer runs Mazatlan. I'm surprised that you can't can't just get it piped into your house. So the next pic is me and my friend-lover-counseler-critic making fun with the Pacifico girl. I really only wanted the picture but she refused unless I took a baseball bat, guess she had a quota.

Now this last pic may look strange to you, I've never seen anything like that either. The game is partially sponsored by a radio station and these are radio-lites or something. Its what I love about Mexico , everything is wonderfuly extreme, lots of colorful pageantry, lots of promotion, lots of fun.....just like I aspire to be. It was a great night. Oh....Cullican put us out of the playoffs 5 to 3. Like my other team the Mariners they have no pitching. But they made up with it by not hitting....