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| Brian Bello is, sadly, done for the year. Photo: AnchorageBucs.com |
- An update on one of my favorite Bucs players: Brian Bello has apparently packed it in for the year. He really struggled this season, hitting .083, but from what I've seen of Bello I doubt that's the reason he's headed home early. He really seemed to be, in many ways, the heart of the Bucs' clubhouse and I don't think he's the kind of guy who has "quit" in him. It's most likely a personal reason and we'll leave it at that. Whatever the case, it's a bummer to see him go, and here's wishing Brian the best in wherever the road may take him from here.
- Oilers fans should check out the latest Clarion Call, "Oilers face Interior challenge", which goes on to describe the challenges that the Oilers will face on their Fairbanks road trip if they plan to keep up their run at the ABL title this year. Of course, they got off on the wrong foot, getting spanked by a suddenly fearsome-looking AIA Fire squad, and the Bucs are looking like they might climb out of the basement as well. Early on it looked like the Miners and Oilers were going to run away from the rest of the league, but it's shaping up to be more or less as I predicted (except for the Pilots, who still haven't found a groove): a tight race.
- I took my four-year-old daughter/assistant to the Miners game on Thursday and it came off pretty good. She had way too much energy and I had to keep telling her to keep her fingers out of the fence, but she enjoyed herself. Here's my tip for parents of little kids who can't sit still for a ball game (read: every little kid, ever): get a bag of peanuts. My daughter and another little boy we sat near were entertained for about six consecutive innings shelling the peanuts. They didn't even eat them, they gave most of them to me, which kept my hands free for writing/stopwatching. Good work to the kiddos! But really, the ABL games are all really kid-friendly, in different ways, and once they get a little bit older I think there's plenty of promotions and other fun stuff for them to do around the park.
- What's on deck: My next game will be the Pilots home game on Tuesday, against the Miners, in Anchorage. This will, sadly, be my first look at the Pilots this season, but hopefully far from the last! Of course, everyone is welcome to come track me down and say hi. On a semi-related note, I promised my wife that the Pilots game would be my last until I got a job. I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel now -- I just put an application in at Wal Mart -- so if anyone has a hot lead on a jobby and wants to keep this blog running full steam ahead all summer long, throw me a bone here. I'll pretty much take anything at this point.
That's it for this week. Have a safe Independence Day weekend, have fun, and get out to the ballpark this week!
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