My extra inning streak HAS to end!!!!!!!!!  It has been a joke in our family for years that when I go to see the hubby there is inevitably extra innings or a rain delay. This usually happens on the first day I arrive or when we have dinner plans.

Well this year's Opening Home stand has beat it all!!!  On Opening Day we had a 10 inning game. We won, thank God, because the only thing I dislike more than extra innings is losing in extra innings!!  Then on that Wednesday we played 16 innings.  Much to the dismay of many baseball fans, coaches do not have to show up just before game time and leave immediately following the game.  They go in about 6 hours before, stay at least 1 1/2 hours after and then go home to do more work, about 2 hours for my hubby.  So the 16 inning game ended around 12:30am and we left the ballpark at 1:45am to home for 2 hours of work.  I tried to be a good wife and stay up with him until he was done, which I regretted the next day as we had a 12:45pm game. .The hubby had to be in at 8:15am so his sleep was much shorter than mine.   When the rain began during the game on Thursday my prayer was there was not a delay, it was a 9 inning game.   There was not, Thank you God!!!

Thursday night ended up being a quick dinner out, I didn't have the energy to cook and clean up, and early to bed.  My thoughts about opening week was...I am tooooo old for this!!!!!!!
Baseball is always entertaining.  However, there can be too much of a good thing!  I love baseball and I love watching my hubby doing what he loves as a job.  But these long games have to stop!  I cannot take it!!

No matter how many innings there may be I will always be at the ball park waiting on the hubby.  I may threaten to leave early or complain about being unhappy with the extra innings or rain delay, but my love for this game and my hubby will always win out!  I would rather be in a ball park with thousands of fans than be in an apartment alone.  Through out the years this has been my choice and it will continue.  My kids know that this is my destiny to be waiting on the hubby through extra innings and rain delays, and they know that is where I will be...always.