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blocking the plate skip to content blocking the plate menu twitter instagram youtube the culture of baseball traveling to the dominican republic with japanball i think i ve found my people i didn t mean a specific country what i d found was a baseball culture that was irresistible it wasn t mexico or puerto rico or venezuela or the dominican it was the latin culture of baseball and i needed to see it in person praying for extra innings at the dodger stadium adult camp the tears started during the 7th inning stretch and by the 9th i was praying for extra innings it wasn t the one game it was the culmination of roughly 14 years of ball crashing to the field all at once like a barreling collision at homeplate i didn t know it was possible to feel so much joy and happiness and sadness at the same time red sox fantasy camp baseball fantasies vs aging reality i ve always told my daughter to have fun and do your best my wife told me to have fun and don t hurt yourself a trip to japan and the nippon professional baseball league the planning started back in december four months before my trip was even scheduled to start well scratch that it started even months before that when i was ready to talk to my wife about it amy has always been amazingly supportive of my travel enough so that i ve lost count of how many times read more mlb spring training ranking the cactus league parks spring training hits different it s a promise of a new season and an escape from reality for even just a few days road tripping in the covid age as thanos snaps 2020 the biggest thing that jumped out through all of this was just how empty the city was it was almost as if we re living in a post thanos snap world traveling in age of covid is it too soon to go to the movies how do you decide when it s the right time to embrace some kind of normalcy while at the same time respecting an ever burgeoning health crisis it s been nearly 6 months since i d seen a movie in the theater which for me is probably the longest stretch since i was 3 years old posts navigation older posts archives october 2025 december 2023 september 2022 february 2022 september 2020 august 2020 april 2020 february 2020 august 2019 june 2019 may 2019 april 2019 november 2018 september 2018 august 2018 july 2018 may 2018 march 2017 february 2017 october 2016 september 2016 july 2016 april 2016 february 2016 https www youtube com blockingtheplate https www instagram com dnacoug follow blocking the plate on wordpress com follow me on twitter my tweets archives october 2025 december 2023 september 2022 february 2022 september 2020 august 2020 april 2020 february 2020 august 2019 june 2019 may 2019 april 2019 november 2018 september 2018 august 2018 july 2018 may 2018 march 2017 february 2017 october 2016 september 2016 july 2016 april 2016 february 2016 https www instagram com dnacoug twitter instagram youtube subscribe subscribed blocking the plate sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy blocking the plate subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website