Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder & awesome guy Jeff Salazar with me after a game…this is one of my favourite pictures…and one of my favourite players…ever! Jeff is one of many players I saw come up through the Colorado Rockies organization through the years…so you can imagine my reaction when I found out that the Diamondbacks picked him up a year ago! I live in Arizona these days so having Jeff here with the hometown team makes me happy, as I get to see him play more often

 It’s bittersweet for me when the Diamondbacks & Rockies take each other on since I dig both teams. It’s one of those series where it doesn’t matter to me who wins, just that I am there to see them both and enjoy some baseball. I know what you’re probably thinking…”How in the world can you be a fan of BOTH teams?” For me, that is all too easy. Like I said, my Rockies were and still are my first love in baseball, but it’s hard NOT to love the Diamondbacks, being that I live in Arizona these days, and also,I spent my first summer here in AZ as an usher/ticket taker at Bank One Ballpark aka Chase Field, so rooting on the Diamondbacks has never been hard for me. Plus, my friends and I attended the first 2 games of the 2001 World Series here in Arizona…a very special time I will never forget!

Last season, the Rockies made it to their first-ever World Series, and despite the outcome of being swept, I am glad they made it and hope they will make it back to the Fall Classic again soon.