Yankees v. Dodgers

Took a little blog break because life has been too good lately! Let's take it back to 2 weeks ago :]

I hit the road to LA to catch the Yankees play up in Hollywood the day after the bomb.com Bruno Mars concert

Weeeeee selfie!

I grabbed Holley from OC and grabbed some lunch in Culver City
Tito's Tacos...so. dank.

We arrived!

Holley & I

Our seats were in island that is known as the bleachers...
You legit have no access to the rest of the stands

Dodger Stadium: Los Angeles, CA

Robinson Cano & Derek Jeter

If cameras are there...they will come. Celebs flock to the stadium:

Samuel L. Jackson reading the Dodgers starting lineup

Cristiano Ronaldo throws out the first pitch

<3

Nicole Sherzinger sings the Star Spangled Banner

Celebs not pictured: Christina Aguilera and her son...the poor kid gets boo-ed for wearing a Yankees cap! Magic Johnson & Kobe Bryant were also shown on the big screen and legit get a roaring round of applause and a standing ovation. 

Mariano Rivera saves the game!

and the Yankees win!

It was a fun little day trip to LA and watch some baseball and get me ready for the Yankees in San Diego!

The GOAT

Mariano Rivera.

18 years in the MLB, 643 saves and counting.

I saw the Yankees play in LA and San Diego last week and had my last two opportunities to see Mariano Rivera close out a ball game.

Dodger Stadium Save

Petco Park Save

The ovations from Dodger Stadium and Petco Park were completely different…I don’t mean to rag on Padres fans considering I am one, but LA impressed with their cheers and recognition of the greatness that is Mo. Padres fans kind of disappointed. I don’t know if you’ll be able to tell from the videos, but Dodgers fans were SO much louder than Padres fans when Mariano came in to save the games for the Yankees. I understand this is an opposing teams pitcher, but Mo is The GOAT. Maybe it was a little more personal in San Diego because Mariano ousted Padres beloved Trevor Hoffman for the most saves in history.

He warmed up right in front of me!

Shot from our seats!

Witnessing my last Mariano Rivera save.

I was a pleasure to watch Mariano do his thing one last time before he hangs up his cap. This guy was full of class throughout his entire 18 year career, during a time where everyone is out to get you and bring you down. Props to you Mo! There will never be another like you! You are the greatest closer of all time.

The Rumble: Padres v. Dodgers

Raise your hand if you've failed at blogging lately... [Marty raises her hand.] I usually try to get 2 posts in a week but holy moly life has been a little crazy lately! 

There are 4 more weeks left of school and it's graduation time! This means that I'm about knee deep in papers, presentations, and exams. Also, baseball season started and I'm obsessed with all the action happening with that. Finally, 2 of the CLAMS have their birthdays this month and the way it works with us it's usually a birthweek/weekend celebration so I have to make sure to get stuff done so I can accomodate the celebrations without forfeiting much school work. Oh, and I finally got back on my health kick, time to drop some weight! Which means waking up and exercising before the sun comes out since that's the only "free" (meh, who cares about sleep) time I have! BLAH. As crazy as things are, I wouldn't have it any other way. Life is good.

You know whose life isn't so good? Zach Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

Dude's collarbone was broken after getting into a fight with Carlos Quentin of the Padres.

In my 24.66 years of baseball fandom and regularly attending games, I have never ever seen a bench clearing fight and I was at the game last week when the brawl and injury happened!

My BFFs and I have season tickets to the Padres and our next game to catch after opening day was Thursday April 11th which was another Dodgers game! Playing against them is always fun because there's a huge rivalry between the teams and the fans.  

We got to our seats Thursday night which are in left center field, closest to the center fielder. My friends and I have this thing we like to do and that's yelling at the (away) teams center fielder that their shoe is untied (even if it's not) to get a peek at their bootaaaaay. Why? 

Alex Rodriguez and I share the same sentiment. 

Baseball pants make butts look good. Real good.

I shouted at Matt Kemp to "tie his shoe" and to my surprise, he obliged! Kind of. He just bent over real quick and touched his toe and popped back up. Better than nothing I guess!

Matt Kemp on the left.

There were some Padres fans heckling Matt real hard. He was getting pretty annoyed with it and doing hand gestures back to the fans and kept looking back at them between pitches. 

Even doing the same thing as Tony Gwynn Jr. below

I was already pretty excited because I've never seen a ballplayer react to hecklers like this...ever and it was sort of making my night.

THEN...this happened:

View of the brawl from my seat.

I. Lost. My. Mind. Lost it. I couldn't believe I was witnessing a bench clearing brawl! As crappy as the situation was, it was SO exciting to see! After like 5 or 10 minutes of "fighting" everyone cleared out and went to their corners, the pitchers walked back to their respective bullpens which is where our seats are. Good thing I was recording on my phone! As they made their way back and through the door up to the bullpen, one (Dodgers) fan was heckling the Padres pitchers and Luke Gregerson took it super personal and was calling out the fan, check it out:

Right before shit gets real between Gregerson and the other fan, ANOTHER FIGHT BREAKS OUT. OMFG! I couldn't keep my cool. I was too excited. I never thought I'd see the day where this happened. Hahaha. After the second "fight" happened the guys were too pumped to go chill out on their bench. They all stood by the fence ready incase another one happened. No such luck.

The internet and sports media was a buzz all that night and the day after over the fight. Apparently Greinke and Quentin have this history and Quentin thought he was hit on purpose. He took a couple of steps towards Greinke and Greinke said something that caused Carlos to charge the mound which started the first brawl. Once they cleared out Jerry Hairston Jr. (a former Padre) heard some of the Padres (who he will not name. Voldemort?) making fun of Greinke's injury and he got pissed and ran to their dugout to call them out on it. Shit went down again and another brawl sort of happened. At the end of it Quentin, Greinke, Hairston Jr. and Kemp were all ejected from the game. Matt Kemp got in Quentin's face in the parking garage talking crap ending it with "We'll see bitch" while being broken up by Clayton Richards and some coppers. We'll see is right. Padres hit up LA Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week and SWEPT them! Whoop whoop. I'm excited for the next Padres/Dodgers series I get to go to at Petco :]

Baseball Is Back!

Oh. Baseball. Welcome back <3

Tuesday was the San Diego Padres home opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers, played hookie from school and headed downtown to the stadium around 11:00 for some tailgate action. It was a fun time…until I got sick. Martywiththeparty partied too hard.

Fireball for breakfast :]

There was a huge folding chair that someone at the tailgate next to us had. Super cool for photo ops!

A few of our friends cruised to the ball game in a limo…prom pictures!

 Marty & The Man Clam

Christina and Eric

Man Clam & Marcus

I had to do quacks.

There's this rule in slow pitch softball where if you drop your drink, you have to do quacks...pretty much shaping your arms into wings, squat, and yell "quack", then rotating 90 degrees and do the same thing, rotating another 90 degrees doing the same thing, and rotating another 90 degrees and doin the same thing one last time until you have gone in a complete circle. I dropped my drink twice and got called out on it by the fellow in the photo below. Ugh.

Garey Grace & I

Once the tailgate was over, Marcus and I headed to the stadium to catch the game. I drunkenly wandered solo for pretty much the first half of the game. All a blur. Which as funny as it is, isn't so funny...it was actually quite dangerous and could have ended badly. No more drinking for me in the foreseeable future!

By the 5th inning I made my way back to my friends and took a seat to catch the remainder of the game. 

View from our seats!

Padres ended up winning that game, 9-3! We barhopped a little around downtown meeting up with friends here and there. First place we stopped was Altitude which is the bar on top of the Marriott which is right across the stadium. They have such a sweet view of the ball park! 

Overall it was a great day, so glad to have my baseball back <3 If I was a good blogger, I would have typed this up the day after, instead of 3...but life is a little crazy. I went to another game last night that I can't wait to write about! I saw my first bench clearing brawl! Ahhhh! Checkcheck the blog on Monday for that :]

Have a great weekend everyone!

30 DAY CHALLENGE: DAY 17

Day 17 – Your favorite website.

Facebook. duh.

And I'm sure any other 20 something female would say...

Pinterest.

This is totally my situation. On all accounts. 

But one of my favorites is totally the LA Photo A Day. Like 4 years ago I became infatuated with Los Angeles and used to go like once a month, sometimes twice for a year. I don't go up there as much, but this website makes my heart a little happy every time I miss it. Here's the "photo of the day" from a couple of days ago. They pull them from people's flickr accounts!