Off Day

      Tuesday was the only day we had completely off during our trip to Florida.  A bunch of guys from the team decided to go to a New York Mets' Spring training game.  I was extremely excited because I am a die-hard Met fan but have only been to a couple of their games.  Every Spring during the pre season professional baseball teams take a trip to florida and play games for a few months.  During this time all different players get the opportunity to prove themselves in making the major league squad and coaches get to see what guys would play the best in certain positions.  The Mets go to St. Lucie, Florida for their spring training.  Conveniently, the Mets' facility is only about fifteen to twenty minutes down the road from our hotel.  A father of one of the players on my team was in Florida for the week to watch our games.   He took myself and a couple of the other guys over to the Met game on Tuesday.  We went over early so we could watch the teams take batting practice, Infield/Outfield, and to walk around the facility.  Before the game we walked around the outside of the stadium for a little.  There was an RV (picture below) and outside of it about 8 plasma screen televisions with game consoles.  The game MLB 2K 11 had come out that day and sponsors were holding a large event for it.  A couple of the guys and I even got to go onto the RV and play the new video.  We got amazing seats in the second row behind home plate.  

       The stadium turned out to be a lot smaller than I anticipated.  I felt like a tourist because I took nearly one hundred pictures, but I just couldn't believe how close we were to the players.  Below are just some of the photos I took during the game.  The Mets ended up losing the game 5-4 in extra innings, but it was good game.  It was a great way to spend my off day.