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This weekend (and part of the weekday) was spent in St. Louis, attending the All-Star game festivities. You might not realize from looking at me, but I actually used to play baseball, and I was quite good. My claim to fame was playing for the varsity squad of my high school Sophomore year, and having a perfect 1000 batting average…1 at bat, 2 rbi single. When you go out, you gotta go out on top.

Anyway, my parents are baseball fans so we spent the weekend at the various festivities:

Fan Fest:

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with an amazing amount of memorabilia. Other priceless possessions included autographed Babe Ruth baseballs, Ted Williams photos, Satchel Paige uniforms, and much much more.

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Watching the All-Stars at batting practice:

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and the home run derby:

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The next day there was the All-Star parade, where all the stars were driven down in Chevy trucks to the stadium (guess who sponsored the parade?). Ichiro!!!

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President Obama threw out the first pitch (snipers protected him from the roof of the stadium):

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The game itself had some good action, but again, the National League lost (13 years in a row now…). The rest of my pictures are here.

Since I’m quickly pushing out this post, the final note about the weekend was that I got to take advantage of United Airlines incompetence and received a free airline voucher for taking a bump on my flight out to Denver. The flight was oversold, so I volunteered to get a bump since I had a horrid STL -> DEN -> SNA -> SJC route. Instead, I got a bump, left a few hours later, and flew United Economy Plus STL -> DEN -> SJC and got in at the same time. Where to next?