Ballpark food.

Well, its coming around, my favorite sports season. Baseball. And what would baseball season be like without the food and the promotions that are handed out. I've been to maybe five different MLB ballparks and just love the variety of food. When I go the Rangers games I try my best to get a smoked turkey leg, nothing says baseball like a smoked turkey leg.

But this one beats out everything. So I recently ran across this story about the burger on the right. It is going to be sold at the West Michigan Whitecaps ballpark this coming season. Look at it, I don't think I will even try to eat that. Here is a list of what is in it, 5 hamburger patties, nearly a cup of chili and loaded with salsa and chips on a sesame seed bun. It all adds up to a measly 4,800 calories per burger. The ballpark is offering a free t-shirt wo anyone that eats the whole thing during the game. Really, I would offer to pay for the hospital bill or least throw in a couple bottles of mlylanta or something. They could possibly even do what the Grand Prairie Airhogs did last year and have a raffle for a free funeral.

A lot of the times the ballpark will have food that is popular in that area, like the turkey leg in Texas. In Colorado they have Rocky Mountain oysters, Seattle has grilled salmon sandwiches, Houston has the BBQ stuffed potato, Pittsburgh has the Primanti Bros. sandwich, and San Diego has the Rubio's fish tacos.

I just can't wait till baseball season hits back up, I might even get a couple of all you can seats at the Ballpark in Arlington. It really wouldn't be a game without the food, at least in my view. So I plan on watching a few games and eating a few turkey legs and then downing a few bottles of Pepto.

Trying to get back into this.

Sorry I haven't been posting lately, my friend Jonathan also known as J - boy has been busy as of late and we haven't been able to do any more backyard blogs.
Here is what has happened to me over the months or as far as I can remember. I have recently joined a city wide flag football team with some guys from the children's home and some guys from outside my work. We may not be the most athletic team out there, but we are the very interesting to watch. i've been switched around to three different positions since we started five weeks ago. I started out blocking then moved to an inside receiver and then lastly center. In the second week we had our other center get a concussion, of all my years playing high school football and intramural and club in college, I've never had an ambulance carry someone off the field till now. So I played center last week and snapped the ball over the QB's head twice in five snaps and the guy is 6' 3. I didn't last to long there. Then we have a cornerback who thinks he is a lot better then he is and always talks trash to the other receivers even when he gets beat five times in a row. Me and another teammate bet on who he is going to get in a fight with before each game, I won the last two weeks. We have had our last three games get called ten or so minutes early because of the hostility building up between the teams.
My NFL team, the Denver Broncos, have recently fired the best coach the organization has ever had and hired an idiot from New England, sorry if you are from the New England area. Josh McDaniels has pissed me off so many times in the last three months. He tried to trade Pro Bowl QB Jay Cutler to get the luckiest kid in the league last year Matt Cassel. I love Jay Cutler, not just that he is a Pro Bowler, but because he is playing with diabetes. My dad has diabetes so I know some of the stuff that Jay is playing with. He is a new kind of role model. McDaniels is bringing an unexpereienced coaching staff and getting rid of the guys that have made the program and force to reckon with over the last ten years or so, except this year's four week season ending pukefest. I will always cheer for the Broncos, but I'm not going to cheer for McDaniels.
I am going to try to do this about once a week or so starting today, don't mark it down. But I need to get back into this and share my mind however dumb it might be.