Thursday, April 9, 2009

16 days to go......

It's with a heavy heart that I blog today about the death of the Angel's pitcher Nick Adenhart. Nick was only 22 years old and had such a promising career ahead of him.



I got to see Nick pitch when we were in Arizona for Spring Training. He did awesome and I was really looking forward to him becoming one of our starting pitchers. When we were there on Opening Day and they announced his name, he ran out onto the field to give everyone their high fives. I remember thinking, man, Nick must be so excited right now to finally have made it to the big leagues where he's going to become a star. Then just a few short hours after pitching a wonderful game where he pitched 6 innings giving up 0 runs, a drunk driver takes his life. How senseless.


Lance and I talked last night about going to tonight's game, but the Angels just cancelled it. I don't blame them. How are his teammates going to play tonight? It would be just too hard.


Wendy and Suzy are friends with Nick's cousin Carla. I hope and pray that Carla and her family are doing as well as can be expected during this really difficult time.


Sports Illustrated has an article about Nick here if you would like to read it.


Love,
Suzanne

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