Here I sit in the broadcasting booth(s) at Jospeh L. Bruno Stadium, home of the Tri-City Valley Cats a full 2 1/2 hours before our game against them. Aberdeen dropped game one last night by a score of 6-3. It was a close game until the sixth when Nicholas Stanley crushed a three run bomb that landed 60 feet past the right field wall.
The big thing on my mind right now is my fantasy football draft. It will start at 10:30 pm. I lucked out on the time because my league is set to a pacific standard time and I of course am living in eastern standard time right now. The luck part comes in because our game here will most likely be over by then and I will either be on my way back to our hotel or already there.
The draft is the most exciting reason I have to want to go back to our hotel room. The Days Inn in Albany, NY is not the prettiest hotel I have ever been to. I'm not responsible for booking or paying so no complaints here but if you want a review of the place read on.
Dingy carpet, small rooms, even smaller bathrooms, no Iron or board in the room, Really just your atypical crummy hotel for cheap. The shower head kicks ass and they provide a continental breakfast (of ourse it stops at 9 am so I have not been awake early enough to take part in it.) Also they provide two pots worth of regular coffee and decaf, something our last hotel in Vermont did not do. I drank both of the regular today but I'm hoping since we are checking out tomorrow I'll get up in time for breakfast and get coffee there.
I just joined a Yahoo Mock Draft. I've never done an on-line fantasy football draft before so I'm going to test my pre-ranks on this mock draft to kill time before our game starts. Right now I've got my pre-ranks set at QB Brees, RB Turner, RB Jones-Drew, WR S. Smith and then I think QB Rivers...well see. I don't know what pick I'm going to have once we go live so the first five pre-ranks or so may go by the wayside.
Luckily, since the Aberdeen game will be over I'll probably have the help of the enitre team. Most of those guys are in a few different fantasy leagues and I'm sure they would be more than willing to kill time at the hotel with another draft. Of course then you run into a million different opinions...we'll see, maybe I'll just ask a few guys to help...beer would be a good addition to a fantasy draft...huh? I'll have to explore that idea later.
The broadcast booth is nice here inTri-City...I guess technically it's located in Troy, NY, thats where the team plays. Tri-City is just their nifty name. The third best booth I've been to since joining the ABerdeen IronBirds...the first best is obviously our home booth at Ripken Stadium. Second was State College located in State College Pennslyvania. No surprise there, their Minor League team, the State College Spikes play at Penn State University so everything was top notch.
Alright just 2 minutes until the mock draft begins, let's hope Aberdeen wins a qucik one here and we arrive at the hotel in time for me to draft. Thats the goal for Monday August 31st, 2009.
