Winter Baseball

[jdramirez]

We were in Puerto Rico over the summer... We all kinda really liked it. The beach was great& like no other beach we have ever been to, but the rain forest was lame, we didn't see a single coqui, and there were some really poor looking areas, but we spent most of our time the mall... So we aren't exactly adventurous.

So those were night baseball? I'm looking at them my phone (small screen) and they liked so clean grain that I assumed it was a day game.

Speaking of... I think I'm done photographing night games... give me a day game with a bit of over cast and I'll be a happy camper.

Yes, all night games except one sort of in the middle. I really prefer day games as well, but I live in Puerto Rico, and the only time they play day games here is when there is a tournament, and they have to play 2-3 games in a day. One team does play their Sunday games at 4:30PM, but it's one of 5 teams. And this goes for Soccer and Football here as well. I assume because of the heat, but I grew up some place hotter…

 

[TexPhoto]

I have lived here for 8 years and seen 2 coqui. Nobody tells you, but they are about 1/2-3/4 inch long, live in mud, and are the same color as the mud. You probably stepped on a few.

It's a strange place to live. Sort of America, and sort of a third world Caribbean island. There are some Awesome things, going to the Beach on Christmas, and there are some awful things, terrible crime, ultra high taxes etc...

 

[TexPhoto]

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[TexPhoto]

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[TexPhoto]

End of the Season.

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[jdramirez]

Do they allow you @ field level? I like the angle you are allowed to stand. For our minor league team, there are seats @ field level (not field seats, but seats that literally walk out onto the field), and they cost around $40 give or take... which isn't too awful... until I have to get a seat for the wife, and my eldest daughter, and her friend... then a day at the park is breaking the bank.

Having said that, it looks like you might be in the dugout... or near it... where as I would be seated to the left of the third base side... so I could get a really good shot of someone sliding into 3rd, or maybe a left handed batter...

 

[TexPhoto]

I have press access. I have a press credential from a local paper, and to a large degree they don't care. At regular season games there were 200 people on average, so I generally went wherever I wanted. For the end of the season tournament, i requested and received a proper press pass.

The local paper credential is largely because of a friend who know the editor, and is in my camera club. I do give them photos, but they have never published anything of mine.