Aren't you a Cubs fan?

"How can you be excited about that? Aren't you a Cubs fan?"
I was asked this last week during the Cleveland Indian's 22 game winning streak.
I replied, "I am a die hard Cubs fan. BUT, I am also a baseball fan."
I get excited about milestones, no hitters, winning and hitting streaks. These are all exciting to me, no matter what team it is!


So yes, I love my Cubs and LOVE when they are winning. But I also love when there are other successes in baseball.


Do I want to talk baseball with you? ABSOLUTELY!


Are you a sports fan? What sport/team do you enjoy?

Travel Tuesday/Post #1500

So here we are. My 1,500th blog post. Wow!

I struggled with what to post for this milestone. After much thought, I decided a "Travel Tuesday" works. So....here we are "traveling" to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

My Mr. planned a birthday weekend trip for me to visit the HOF last summer. It was all I imagined and then some. It was amazing to look at artifacts that players had worn/used.

Two weeks before we were headed to Cooperstown, they had a 4 foot snow. So, we were a little nervous headed out, BUT most of the snow was gone. It rained and snowed a couple of inches over the weekend but we didn't let it put a damper on things.

The view from our hotel room:

The views were pretty

The locker collections [for all the teams] are awesome!

 Kerry Wood's jersey:

 Yosh Kawano's hat:

 

 

I am not a Mark McGwire fan but there was a display of the home run battle between he & Sammy Sosa in 1998. It was very cool!

 

 

 

 Just hanging out with Benny...

 

This represents Ted Williams' batting averages in the different areas of the strike zone.

This alone made me giddy before I even walked into "the hall". And when I did, it took my breath away!

We literally had it all to ourselves which was wonderful!

Ready for the Class of 2017:

(signed here are: Jeff Bagwell; Ivan Rodriguez; and John Schuerholz)

[Bagwell had been there Tuesday & Wednesday before we got there and Tim Raines was there the Tuesday & Wednesday after we were there]

Some of the plaques:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favorite baseball guy!

 

This was a fun little display

 

 

After we got done with our tour of the Hall, we went out to the Cooperstown Bat Company factory and watched them turn bats. THAT was really cool! (sorry, no pictures of the actual turning)

 Turned bats waiting to be finished:

One more thing off my bucket list. Plus, it was nice to get away with my Mr. and go on a couple other adventures (I will post those next week).

 

WILW

Happy Wednesday! I'm linking up with Rachel and friends for another installment of What I'm Loving Wednesday. (Please go check out their blogs)

I hope your week is going well! It's been grey and cool here this week so I have been looking hard for "good stuff" and found some.

*Reading time
*Sending out promo stuff to clients and potential clients
*My husband's support
*My kids' giggling
*Going through pictures from our trip
*Coffee
*A kind echocardiogram tech
*Spring is getting closer
*Spring training is 3 weeks away!
*My Twitter feed has been pretty cheery this week-talk of books; Disney; baseball and music
*Oscar nominations are out
*Having lunch with my grandpa and aunt
*This is Us and The Good Place are back on TV

What are you living this week?

WILW - The Playoffs

Linking up with Rachel and friends for another week. Please join us!!!!


Yes, MLB playoffs! I know there are die hard "other team" fans that stop by and visit here. (AND GOOD!!!) My Cubbies beat the Giants last night. I am over the moon excited!

 (I am not a fan of this picture, but here I am...)

Bring on the Dodgers or Nationals...

Dear SF Giants,

You played hard and you made the Cubs work. I admire and commend that.

I know losses are hard, especially in the post season. Hold your heads high though, gentlemen - you played well and you beat a lot of teams to get there.

Cheers to a great 2016 season!

Dear Blue Jays & Indians,

A sweep from both of you?! SERIOUSLY!!!! That is crazy! May your AL Championship series be a good one (I can't wait to watch)

Dear Rangers & Red Sox,

I know it was tough to play against them. As I wrote to the Giants - hold your heads high! You both had great seasons!!!

Now on to Saturday night!

#FlytheW

I've got the itch....

The baseball itch!!!!!!!!

I am dying for the regular season to start (less than a week!).

I haven't seen any spring training games. It is killing me!!!! I catch little snippets of Cubs news here & there.

In our house, baseball is still in the background because hockey is still on. BUT - sorry boys, Sunday afternoon the TV is mine!

Do you follow baseball?

Who is "your" team?

Happy Sunday again!

Greetings!

I know I have been absent this week, I'm sorry! I have been working on a couple projects. 

CROCHETING

I finished this square for my crochet-along.

KNITTING

I am just starting to knit this blanket test pattern.

Which will be perfect to do while I watch the MLB Hall of Fame induction, today.

Congratulations to the inductees.

I am linking up with the Social Sunday link up again.

Have a great day!

Friday Fun - Heartwarmer

I saw this earlier this week. Kyle makes me smile-this kid is awesome!

PS: You might want a tissue handy...

Happy Friday!

Keep calm....

posted from Pinterest

Pitchers and catchers report to camp on Sunday!

PS: I'm sorry I've been bad about blog visiting - I will try to catch up with ya over the next week. I appreciate all of you who stop by and leave your comments!!!