Florida Spring Training, Day 4

Aunt Beth and her friend Susan flew in from Philly for a few games. So we met up with them at breakfast. For our 4th game we headed to Lakeland, home of the Detroit Tigers for a 1 oclock game versus the Phils. Lakeland is about an hour away from Cleanwater but we got there in plenty of time and got to watch the Phils batting practice. Stood nice and close and watch the top of the line up Rollins, Victorino, Utley, Ryan and Werth take some swings. Dad ran to see the line-up and returned with some great news! Our new ace Roy Halladay was taking the mound! I was pumped!

Off to our seats.
Seats were first come first serve bleachers down 3rd base line. It was a bright sunny day in the 70s again but this time I was very very prepared. Long sleeve t-shirt and enough sun tan lotion to protection a small country. Game on. Halladay got off to a rough start and never really recovered. Tigers knocked in 3 in the 2nd and that was it for scoring on both sides. You never know what they are working on so you can't really take much from these games. Only after a few weeks of the reg season will we really see what these guys got!

Dads old friend Frank and his wife Phylis came up from Miami to visit with us and possibly make it to the Phils game the next day. We meet up with them and headed to dinner. All 6 of us went in 2 cars to a place called Cody's Roadhouse. It was quite an adventure. Frank and Phylis were a very interesting couple and all in all it was a good time.

That night we had some fun trying to get them some tickets. We used the business center at the hotel. Their computers were down, dads computer didn't like the printer and mine finally worked on the second printer. After all that and ordering the tickets we realized the seller has to confirm the order. We assumed they'd be ready to go in the AM.