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Snow in October

Just a couple hours after the St Louis Cardinals won the World Series, snow began to fall in the Pittsburgh area. In October. October 29th. This morning, Amy called out to me from downstairs, “Erik, look out the window!”

This is what I saw:

Amy and Olivia and I hopped in the car and went for a ride so Olivia could experience her first ever snow fall.

After driving around for about 30 minutes or so, we stopped and took Olivia outside:

She didn’t quite know what to make of it all.

When we got back home we checked out our back yard. Here we are on our deck:

Altogether we probably got between 1″-2″ of snow.

Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:43 PM
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The Blizzard of 2010

If you live anywhere in the Northeast, you’ve probably experienced some snow in the past few days.

Here in Western Pennsylvania we got 21 inches. The snow began to fall on Friday afternoon, and didn’t let up for 24 hours. The meteorologists were way wrong. They originally called for 4-8 inches for the Pittsburgh area. Clearly, they botched that call.

Here’s how it piled up in my backyard, all 21 inches of it:

A look at my backyard.

The only setback that I had with the storm was that the cable and internet went down for about a day. Luckily the power never went out, so I was able to stay warm.

What’s the baseball connection to this entry? Well, I am a teacher, and school has been canceled for Monday. Guess when our make up day is? That’s right – April 5th – also known as the Pirates home opener.

There’s another storm brewing for Tuesday with 4-8 more inches of snow forecast.

Posted on February 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM
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12-18-09 Season Ticket Holder Shopping Event

This weekend, the Pirates invited their season ticket holders to PNC Park for a special shopping event. The Pirates home clubhouse would be transformed into a storefront, with jerseys, bats, etc being sold.

After sitting in traffic for about twenty minutes, I finally reached the park.

I decided to park near the right field gate, so I could walk along the Riverwalk outside of the stadium.

The Pirates had decked the exterior of PNC park with Christmas decorations.

They were all authenticated, from various “historic” games, such as balls from Brian Bixler’s first major league hit game, and balls from Nate McLouth’s 19th game of his hitting street.

The
y were $20 a piece. The only balls I were interested in were ones with the special opening day stamp on them. I wasn’t going to pay $20 or $25 though, so I just moved on.

I eventually made my way to the batting practice hats.
They were reasonably priced at $15. Since my batting practice cap that I had worn throughout the 2009 season was well worn, I decided to get a new one to welcome the 2010 season. The design is slightly different from the old version with the red above the ears being replaced with black. The Pirates introduced the new BP caps at the beginning of 2009, but I held off on buying one since I had just got a BP hat at the end of the 2008 season (thanks to Ian Snell).

Having seen pretty much everything there was to see, I left after purchasing the hat. I made not make it back into Pittsburgh until April 5th, unless there is another season ticket holder event.

Later that night Pittsburgh was struck by the northermost edge of the blizzard of 2009. It made my every-other-night 3 mile run rather trecherous.

The next morning, there was five inches of snow , making my last minute Christmas shopping commute equally trecherous.