Dabigticket's IP Success - Page 5

Hoffy814 · 08-11-2008, 03:21 PM

Good luck with Hughes tommorow. Last year was crazy, not sure if you went on Opening Day but everyone came in to try and get him, very crazy.

dabigticket · 08-12-2008, 09:50 PM

SWB Yanks @ Pawtucket Redsox

Philip Hughes is in rehab'n with Scranton and as a Yanks fan and I big fan of Phil I was excited. Surprisingly I get in at 2 pm and my bro and I are the only ones. The bus pulls in right at three most of the team came off. I missed a few guys waiting for Phil to come off and when he did I called him 2x and my bro tried to and he just walked in. Though he was the starter and I know he has his rules and rituals when he pitches and that he doesn't sign before games that he pitches. Though with just 2 people I thought there was a chance. So I missed quite a few Scranton guys but w/e. Was really considering staying after to graph postgame but I have to get up early for work tomorrow and I figure I could call it day and try my luck with Phil tomorrow. Watched a few innings and got to see one of my favorites pitch in person, got a few nice pictures and Hughes looked good. Hit 93-94 consistently on the gun with his fastball and his command with it was very good, he controlled his curveball well too he used it effectively. However he struggled throwing his change-up and 2 seamer for strikes. But one good sign was that he was able to get strikes and outs when behind in the count. Was down 3-0 to Jeff Bailey and then bounced back with 3 straight strikes for the K using his fastball, next batter was Joe Thurston went down 2-0 then was able to get 2 strikes and get a groundball to get out of the inning. Anyways wasn't to bad of a day, just did pregame outside and inside and no big names but a hilarious story with Kei Igawa. Here are the numbers:

SWB Yanks

Chase Wright 9/9 (4 mine, 4 50/50) (smudged one bad..again, took off the sig will try again tomorrow)
Kei Igawa 3/3

Okay I got Kei outside coming in with his translator but inside it was one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed. So people are hanging their binders/buckets and Kei is the last one coming in from warm-ups. A bunch of people are calling for him and he comes and signs people's buckets instead of the ball inside and it wasn't his signature he was signing stuff in Japaneese like a note or something and was writing today's date on it. Then Fingers (you Pawtucket guys know who I'm talking about) starts yelling to Kei to sign his card in his milk carton. Kei signs the milk carton and moves on to sign some guys cards but he signed a Bernie Castro card in Jap. Then takes the card out and puts it in Bobby Tiereny's binder. Then Fingers starts yelling some **** in Japanese and saying Igawa-son and Kenichiwa and Kei looks up and yells Kenichiwa back, Fingers is telling him to sign the card in the carton and Kei signs the carton takes out some of the cards who aren't of him and he places it in Bobby's binder. Mean while this guy is getting pissed off at Fingers for running around over the dugout with his milk carton and was about to throw the kid over the dugout. Fingers still yells to Kei and for a 3rd time he signs the milk carton. Fingers goes sign my card and Kei motions like he is steering a wheel and say's "I drive car". Haha it was great, Bobby takes a picture and Kei jumps up and says "Oh picture and gives a goofy smile" Fingers is running all over the place and Kei finally signed the card but then put it in someone else's binder. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, one of those things you have to be there for.

Brett Gardner 1/2, 1/1 (only one he signed for inside)
Mark Melancon 2/2: personalized as always, he started to sign my Ian Kennedy card and then realized it was Ian and goes "Opps, I forgot my name was Mark", lol.

Pawtucket Redsox
Jon Switzer 2/2 (1 50/50)
Josh Wilson 2/2 (1 50/50)
Eric Hull 2/2 (1 50/50)
Joe Thurston 1/1

Total:23

Next Up: Phil Hughes Day 2-SWB Yanks @ Pawsox tomorrow.

Alejandromyfriend · 08-13-2008, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dabigticket

SWB Yanks @ Pawtucket Redsox

Philip Hughes is in rehab'n with Scranton and as a Yanks fan and I big fan of Phil I was excited. Surprisingly I get in at 2 pm and my bro and I are the only ones. The bus pulls in right at three most of the team came off. I missed a few guys waiting for Phil to come off and when he did I called him 2x and my bro tried to and he just walked in. Though he was the starter and I know he has his rules and rituals when he pitches and that he doesn't sign before games that he pitches. Though with just 2 people I thought there was a chance. So I missed quite a few Scranton guys but w/e. Was really considering staying after to graph postgame but I have to get up early for work tomorrow and I figure I could call it day and try my luck with Phil tomorrow. Watched a few innings and got to see one of my favorites pitch in person, got a few nice pictures and Hughes looked good. Hit 93-94 consistently on the gun with his fastball and his command with it was very good, he controlled his curveball well too he used it effectively. However he struggled throwing his change-up and 2 seamer for strikes. But one good sign was that he was able to get strikes and outs when behind in the count. Was down 3-0 to Jeff Bailey and then bounced back with 3 straight strikes for the K using his fastball, next batter was Joe Thurston went down 2-0 then was able to get 2 strikes and get a groundball to get out of the inning. Anyways wasn't to bad of a day, just did pregame outside and inside and no big names but a hilarious story with Kei Igawa. Here are the numbers:

SWB Yanks

Chase Wright 9/9 (4 mine, 4 50/50) (smudged one bad..again, took off the sig will try again tomorrow)
Kei Igawa 3/3

Okay I got Kei outside coming in with his translator but inside it was one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed. So people are hanging their binders/buckets and Kei is the last one coming in from warm-ups. A bunch of people are calling for him and he comes and signs people's buckets instead of the ball inside and it wasn't his signature he was signing stuff in Japaneese like a note or something and was writing today's date on it. Then Fingers (you Pawtucket guys know who I'm talking about) starts yelling to Kei to sign his card in his milk carton. Kei signs the milk carton and moves on to sign some guys cards but he signed a Bernie Castro card in Jap. Then takes the card out and puts it in Bobby Tiereny's binder. Then Fingers starts yelling some **** in Japanese and saying Igawa-son and Kenichiwa and Kei looks up and yells Kenichiwa back, Fingers is telling him to sign the card in the carton and Kei signs the carton takes out some of the cards who aren't of him and he places it in Bobby's binder. Mean while this guy is getting pissed off at Fingers for running around over the dugout with his milk carton and was about to throw the kid over the dugout. Fingers still yells to Kei and for a 3rd time he signs the milk carton. Fingers goes sign my card and Kei motions like he is steering a wheel and say's "I drive car". Haha it was great, Bobby takes a picture and Kei jumps up and says "Oh picture and gives a goofy smile" Fingers is running all over the place and Kei finally signed the card but then put it in someone else's binder. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, one of those things you have to be there for.

Brett Gardner 1/2, 1/1 (only one he signed for inside)
Mark Melancon 2/2: personalized as always, he started to sign my Ian Kennedy card and then realized it was Ian and goes "Opps, I forgot my name was Mark", lol.

Pawtucket Redsox
Jon Switzer 2/2 (1 50/50)
Josh Wilson 2/2 (1 50/50)
Eric Hull 2/2 (1 50/50)
Joe Thurston 1/1

Total:23

Next Up: Phil Hughes Day 2-SWB Yanks @ Pawsox tomorrow.

LOL. Was it Rollie or his son? I haven't seen Rollie there all season. We will be there tonight. After that story I am sure it was Igawa who signed the cards in my binder last week as well.

dabigticket · 08-13-2008, 07:25 AM

Yea it was his son, but has dad was there pre-game and when I told him he missed Hughes he took off but his son wanted to stay, so I think he left his son there as always. But it was one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed. The kid was about to cry cause he couldn't get his 1 Kei Igawa card signed. Luckily I got him coming in, I didn't even have to ask he just looked at me while he was walking through the barricades motion his hand like he was signing and nodded his head.

dabigticket · 08-14-2008, 12:18 AM

SWB Yanks @ Pawtucket Redsox

Well for the 3rd day in arow headed to Pawtucket and for the 3rd day in a row went home disapoointed, though that is what I expect now when I come to McCoy. Phil didn't sign coming off the bus before the game, though I was able to knock out my Ian Kennedy stuff. It was autograph night, where the Pawsox would sign on the field four an hour before the game. And I really din't bother with it, just picked out a few guys could have really killed them if I wanted to but the little bastards and creatures running around killed it for me. Saw Phil Hughes running laps on the field and waited to he was done and going to head into the lockeroom, wlaked right up to him and asked him to sign and told me"I can't sign dude, only Pawtucket is signing", meanwhile all the other Scranton guys are picking up sharpies/pens. Hughes was escorted in and after the game the Scranton buses were not parked in front of the lockerrom like always so it was extremely difficult to get anyone. Phil Hughes gave the silent treatment after the game, but w/e. Anyways was a normal day in Pawtucket for me numbers wise. Could have really bolstered it if I wanted to but was not going to bother with the tools that were running all over for autos. Anyways here are my totals:

SWB Yanks (pregame)
Ian Kennedy 3/3 (2 8x10s, 1 of them 50/50, and a card)

SWB Yanks (postgame)
Chris Britton 2/2 (only Yank that signed after the game)

Pawsox (inside for autograph session)
Chris Carter 1/2 (8x10)
Keith Ginter 2/2 ( 1 50/50)
Charlie Zink 4/4 ( 1 50/50)
George Kottaras 1/1
Michael Bowden 1/1
Devern "I like to grab other people's sack"- 1/2-why?
Jose Vaquedano 1/1
Jeff Bailey 2/2
Jeff Corsaletti 2/2

Total: 20

Next Up: Next Thursday, Cuse Skychiefs @ Pawtucket Pawsox

dabigticket · 08-21-2008, 08:56 PM

Syracuse Skychiefs vs. Pawtucket Redsox

Had high hopes for today with a top prospect, former CY Young winner and a HOF in today; left very disappointed. Met up with Alejandromyfriend, JCute, and NEPhillyfan. Missed Snider by 5-10 minutes coming in, and I would have been there in time if it wasn't for my brother who had me turn around 1/2 way to McCoy so he can get a hat. Then Rick rides Bartolo Colon in so he doesn't sign. Inside I had to ask Snider at least 5x each time he'd say he'd get me later, signs for 2 guys and takes off, comes back tells me he'll get me later. I leave and then those same 2 guys run up to me and tell me 5 min after i left Snider signed, I pretty much couldn't be more frustrated by this. Mike Schmidt was signing for some prostate awareness thing hoped in line got him on this crappy giveaway oversized card because they didn't allow outside items. Wasn't a very good day, though at the least I came away with a HOFer. Here are my success from what I consider to be a day of failure.

Cuse

Doug Davis 1/1
Rick Langford 1/1 (Alejandromyfriend)
Ricky Romero 2/2
Hector Luna 2/2 (1 50/50)
Russ Adams 2/2 (1 Alejandromyfriend)
Rick Bauer 2/2 (1 Alejandromyfriend)
Danny Sandoval 2/2

Pawtucket

Jason Lane 1/1 (for Jcute)

Mike Schmidt 1/1

Total:14

Next Up: Next Friday Buffalo Bison @ Pawtucket Redsox, Sept 1 Lehigh Valley @ Pawtucket Redsox (final home game)

dabigticket · 08-29-2008, 08:12 PM

Buffalo Bison @ Pawtucket Redsox

Just did a little pregame today at McCoy was there for about 3-3 1/2 hours but had a good haul. Travis Hafner was in an rehab assignment but didn't sign, Aaron Laffey and David Huff also gave me no's coming off the bus. But a decent amount of guys were good about signing. Anyways here are my totals:

Pawtucket Pawsox

Marcus McBeth 1/1-really nice and talkative guy, talked about college football with me and a few other collectors for about 10 min or so outside.

Russ Morman 6/6 (2 mine, 4 50/50)
Ron Johnson 1/1
Kyle Snyder 1/1 (50/50)- gave me a horrible signature, it was a big cursive S
Josh Willson 3/3 ( 1 mine, 2 50/50)
Lincoln Holdzkom 3/3 (1 mine, 2 50/50)-was signed in black as he grabbed some kid's sharpie and wouldn't switch
Sean Danielson 2/2 (1 mine, 1 50/50)
Chris Carter 1/1 8x10
Jeff Corsaletti 1/1 4x6

Buffalo Bison
Jeff Weaver 3/3-very nice
Jordan Brown 4/4-also very nice
Tony Graffanino 2/2
John "The Lama" Halama 1/2
Trevor Crowe 1/2
Johnathan Meloan 1/1

Total: 31

Next Up: Monday Sept. 1 Lehigh Valley @ Pawtucket, last outing for me of the season

AngelBerroa · 08-29-2008, 08:16 PM

have you gotten my cards signed?

dabigticket · 08-29-2008, 08:17 PM

Is your name Danillo?

AngelBerroa · 08-29-2008, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dabigticket

Is your name Danillo?

danilo. yes

dabigticket · 08-29-2008, 08:28 PM

Well Danillo, I did have your cards done a few weeks ago problem was you didn't include an SASE, I posted a thread about this too, anyways shoot me a pm and I'll give you my addy for you to send your SASE to.

dabigticket · 08-31-2008, 07:21 PM

Lehigh Valley Piggies @ Pawtucket Redsox

Didn't really plan on going today but was bored so I headed to do a little pregame was there for about an hour and a 1/2. Got Carlos Carrasco which is all I really went for. Colon came in to workout and refused to sign coming in and leaving after his brief workout. Solid outing, here are my numbers:

Pawtucket

Devern Hansack 6/6: As I pulled in Hansack was getting dropped off at one of the side doors, when I asked he goes "You caught me man"

Lehigh Valley

Carlos Carrasco 3/3, 1/1 SP ROMLB, 1/1 SS ROMLB: After doing 2 cards and an 8x10 for me at once, dip'd him to get my ball done and he SP me after SS'n for everyone else, went again as he was 1/2 way through the door took a heavy sigh and signed SS after I asked. Easily got the sig off the ball he SP'd so all is good

Brian Mazone 1/1
Travis Blackley 2/2: very nice guy, very talkative

Total: 14