As I am typing this, I am on my laptop computer watching the Pirates play the Chicago White Sox (the defending world series champions). But I also have some press credentials in the press box here, courtesy of some good friends connected to central PA radio. My friend Dan came with me from State College and he's been in good health through most of this game.It's been a really fun to watch the game from the Press Box. I've stayed dry as the game was delayed by rain for 25 minutes or so. I've even got to see a lot of local celebrities around the press box. Trenni Kusnerek sat in front of me. All she did was sit there and play with her cell phone and chat to the co-workers.
Okay, so, I did a little chatting too on IM to tell all my buddies where I was. It was a little unprofessional, but it's not like I had to make a deadline or something.
The Pirates played well and even almost won the game on the technicality of a rain delay. But the weather wasn't around that long.
After the 9th inning home run heroics by my new friend Sanchez, I was able to get in a question during the Mgr. Tracy "presser" and ask him about weather or not he thought the White Sox used Jim Thome at the right time and peaked too soon. He looked right at me the whole time he answered the question. But while he was looking at me, the GM was looking at him the whole time off-camera.
So, I got to go back into the clubhouse and talk to the Pirates. I stayed around Sanchez's locker to ask him some more follow up questions. I tried to get him to talk about the next team to play in the Detroit Tigers. I caught it all on my minidisk hopefully leading to a really good aircheck.
I tried to talk to some of the White Sox and Rob Makowiak (former Altoona Curve) in particular, but they had all hit the showers and went home by the time I could find my way out of the basement boiler room.
