Life of a Lute: Long time no see

It's been awhile since I had a post, I'm getting too good at procrastinating. A lot has been going on as of late. My Mariners caught fire, then they left Safeco and they have crashed and burned so far on the road trip, Tessa came to visit this weekend, and we swept Lewis and Clark this weekend to improve to 30-7 this year on our last home games of the year.

I'm going to talk about my boys first. On their homestand they went an impressive 2-7 following a 2-5 start. They were able to pull off a sweep the in the final against the stellar now 3-16 Baltimore Orioles. Their bats came alive that homestand and their pitching was phenomenal. Unfortunately they don't get to play all 162 games in Seattle. They went out to Chicago this weekend to play the White Sox and the Mariners showed the text book way how not to win a game. they played pretty well but the pitching could not pull through in the end of games. The first two games were lost on walk off bombs, the second game we were up 2 and gave the ball to Aardsma in the 9th and he gave up two round trippers, a solo shot and a two run shot that won it for Chicago. Then last night we gave up a homerun in the bottom of the 8th to give the White Sox a one run lead. We went 0-3 in Chicago losing by a combined 3 runs. Just a little fun fact, Chone Figgins one of our big off season acquisitions is batting a solid .190 so far this year. We got Kansas City tonight and the King is on the bump so hopefully that can get things going for us. We are now 9-10. Go M's!

The other week I was talking to Tessa and was like how come we have not once seen each other when we live 45 minutes from another. So I got my best friend Mckenzie to take me to Seattle to go get Tessa. We got a little lost on the way there but thanks to the G.P.S. we found our way to Seattle Pacific University. SPU has a really nice campus but I could never see myself going there. That school was a little too "artsy" for my taste, and they don't have a baseball team. I had a feeling that Tessa was going to get along well with my girlfriends here at school, and I was right. They all hung out together more than they hung out with me. Of course the fact that I had baseball all weekend contributed. I guess they got it all figured out that Tessa is going to come back and hang out with the girls, I had no say in that, what else is new? She left after the game on Sunday but it was good to see her. It made me think about all my high school friends and got me pumped for this summer to see all my old buddies. It feels a little weird saying all my "old" friends.

So I went to dinner and I left mid-blog so the Mariner is over. I don't know what to say anymore, their offense sometimes amazes me. Felix throws 7 innings giving up 3 runs and we can manage a single run until the 9th inning against the Royals. We were a stellar 1-9 with runners in scoring position, that's not going to work.

Like I said though this was a big weekend for us. We got to the 30 win mark with a sweep of Lewis and Clark. The thing is Linfield swept George Fox so this weekend is going to be huge. Whoever wins that series will be conference champs and will advance to regionals. There is going to be so many people there, for the people who are making the trip to Mckminville, make sure you get there early. Both Linfield and us are nationally ranked. In the last poll we were #16 and Linfield was #20, the new poll comes out tomorrow though, we will both probably move up a couple spots. Only 27 guys will travel and I am crossing my fingers I'm going to be on the travel roster. If not I might go down with Luis and Megan to watch the games and stay with Luis but we will see, I find out tomorrow if I'm going to be traveling. It's the last week of regular season baseball, that's so weird.

Other than that not a whole lot to report. I'm counting down the days until summer. I'm tired of school. It's going to be really weird packing up the room after finals are all over. Megan and I have been talking a lot about WE Fest this summer. It is a 3 day country concert in Minnesota that you camp out on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday in early August. So I am really hoping I can get those 3 days off of work and go to that. Megan has gone for a few years now and it sounds ridiculous. She even might be able to hook it up with free tickets because she works at a country radio station in North Dakota. Is it summer yet?

I'm going to finish up watching the Blazers, they are down 49-42 in the 2nd quarter of game 5 then I have to head to the library, my favorite place in the world!

Nathan...out