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<\/p>\nI’ve said this before, but there are times when I forget that I’m obsessed with baseball because it’s fun to watch, not just because it’s eaten my brain and I’m therefore willing to be in agony when things go wrong. Last night, New Guy Preview Night, I’ll call it, my husband went to bed early, and I was left sitting there giggling at the TV like an idiot for hours — what a fun game, and how great was Teixeira’s intro? I loved how organic it was, how he showed up mid-game so that we actually got to see him walking around shaking hands, and I loved that the crowd went nuts when they put a shot of him drinking water on the jumbotron. Everyone looked quite happy go lucky, and the homers by the three amigos felt like a good omen.<\/p>\n
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I’m trying to come up with nickname better than the obvious and rather dreadful “Tex,” presently. Maybe “Buzz?” Cause he’s a Yellowjacket, and he’s kind of got that Buzz Lightyear energy, with everyone fawning over the new guy (which I guess would make Andruw Woody?), and he looks a little Buzz Lightyearish. I can’t decide if that’s too dorky — you guys let me know what you think. <\/p>\n
In the meantime, check out this great 790 interview with Heap<\/a>, if you haven’t heard it already. They tease him about the rather svelte action figures that were given out on Heap Night. <\/p>\n Then, if you’re still up for more Heap, with a little Frenchy on the side (though actually, scratch that, there’s more Frenchy than Heap in this, and you’ll understand why when you see it), plus a large helping of “extremely disturbing marketing synergy,” check out this promo for High School Musical 2<\/a> that features our Former House Mates, Hamels, Peavy and many others (strangely NOT David Wright, though I wouldn’t be surprised if this was somehow all his idea). Thanks to Karen for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve said this before, but there are times when I forget that I’m obsessed with baseball because it’s fun to watch, not just because it’s eaten my brain and I’m therefore willing to be in agony when things go wrong. Last night, New Guy Preview Night, I’ll call it, my husband went to bed early, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}