At 8am this morning I answered a call from my mother.  My mother is an eccentric woman, she moved here from Kansas with her best friend in the 1970′s and they lived in a tent for a few months.  Her and my dad both ride motorcycles and call me every other day to find out when I’ll come home next.  My mother is not happy about my choice to transfer out of the University of Colorado in order to pursue a career in sports industry.  She doesn’t really like the fact that I’m more into sports than anything else and that baseball is taking hold of my life.  So, she called me this morning to tell me that she is cutting me off. I will no longer get grocery money that I can put towards buying Rockies’ tickets and I have to get a job and raise enough funds to pay my own July rent. 
    I’m not bothered by what she is laying down, but I think she is doing this in hopes of swaying my future.  Having her only daughter go into a future of baseball and sports frenzy was not exactly the plan she had when she was sewing me ruffly dresses and buying me sparkly shoes.  I’m upset because she agreed to support me until my sophomore year, but she hopes that this cut off will stop me from going to as many games.  I probably sound spoiled, but I live baseball and when someone who you expect to support you decides to rip your happiness away with their own interests in mind, it sucks.  So tomorrow I will have to start looking for a job and put my days of baseball daydreams on the shelf.
    In other news the Rockies lost today.  It was an unfortunate outing for Francis, especially on the tails of a 4 game win streak.  After yesterday’s game I was excited to see a team that looked like it had made it to a World Series, but today we were back to our old woes.  We had 2 opportunities with bases loaded and 1 out, but did not capitalize on either and Hawpe made it to third with only 1 out, and still we get nothing.  The Brewers never even broke the game open, but in this 3-2 loss they didn’t need to.  However, Francis’ pitching wasn’t super hot, but his bat was swinging pretty well with a base hit RBI.

    Other thoughts on the day   
    1.  Paul Pierce is playing today…I recall a knee injury where he was carried off the court
    2.  Baker and Spilborghs are both hurting, Bake with a bruised knee and Spilly with a stiff back
    3.  Joba Chamberlain is pretty cool, but I still want to see him break through with one of his starts instead of letting the other team break the game open
    4.  I have watched a lot of college baseball, I didn’t know half those colleges existed
    5.  Jeff Francis should wear garters
    6.  Chipper Jones has a slight tear in his quad, I hope he isn’t better by June 16
    7.  If we win June 16, just the one game, we will have completed our first sweep