I woke up this morning to find I missed what, by all accounts, sounds like one of the most electric and heart warming nights in the game of baseball. Josh Hamilton hit 28 homers in the first round of the Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium. Some of those were over 500 ft. Damn it! I missed it! Oh well, I guess I would still have rather been doing what I was doing...visiting my baby and holding my little Princess Emma.
The last time such a display was put on was in 2005, when Bobby Abreu hit 24 in the first round. Oddly, when that happened I was again with Briana. I was listening on the radio while on the way back from OCU, when we had to do the orientation before Briana's freshman year there. Of course, what I remember most about that was the fact that Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez made a run at the finals. But that was Comerica Park in Detroit. Not Yankee Stadium. And Abreu was an established young power hitter.
Josh Hamilton has been the feel good story of the year, not just in baseball, but in all of sports. His comeback from drug and alcohol addiction has been well chronicled. But for him do do what he did last night, and to do it at Yankee Stadium in it's last year...wow! Way to go Josh! I'm sorry I missed it!
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