Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by BAMartin:
You are a true fan! No one else would take a photo like this. Wonderfully captured.

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by jdannels:
OMG this is great!

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by jackal9:
Very good shot! nice composition and wonderful "alter" you have there! You must be quite the fan! The only sports I have ever been interested in involve an engine of some sort lol, so I quess I'll just wish you (and them) good luck!! Very nice shot and interesting story!

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by thomaspeople:
As a boy growing up in Jacksonville FL (many, many years ago) my dad would often take me to see the Jacksonville Suns play. The Suns were the farm team at that time for the Royals, so I probably saw George when he was just a rookie. Unfortunately my only strong memories are of the "Sunshine Girls" who ran around the bases at the seventh inning stretch to bring a Coke to the umpires. My dad had binoculars..

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by bassbone:
no amount of praying to the gods of baseball will help the Royals. The worse thing is that George Brett can still outplay most of the minor leaguers that are on the current roster.

Great photo - I love baseball!

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by Ken:
I can't believe it's been that long! This is really well done.

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by jonfrommk:
Charlene, this is simply the most fantastic photo. As an ardent football (I will never call it soccer) fan I can so understand this feeling. Brilliant composition and I love the 3d feel of it from you dof. The way that George is so sharply in focus and you are fractionally not is wonderful (as is the fact that the tickets for the game are by George)

Remember though it is not enough praying, you need to follow the exact same routine that you did last time the Royals beat the Yankees...same parking slot, same pre match drinks/food, if you dropped something last time this happened make sure you drop it again this time...and dont even get me started on lucky underwear (that is a tragic story that deserves never to be repeated)

All I can say is it is in your hands

The Royals deserve to win tonight simply to repay this wonderful shot

Beautiful

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by citymars:
What a hilarious photo. At first glance I thought "It looks like someone praying at an altar." And so it is!

That was a fascinating story. I should probably have known about it but I've never followed sports very closely. Here's the wikipedia entry on Brett's Pine Tar Incident.

Day 24
by Charlene

Comment by Pug-H:
Well, it looks like he uses so much Pine Tar (a phenomenon that I've never heard of) that three of his bats are stuck together. ;-Þ

Day 17
by Charlene

Comment by kellyrc01:
This is a great capture! I like that it's out of focus, it gives it the innocence that really makes it speacial.