New Eugene Emeralds logo

I love minor league baseball teams for three reasons:

1. As a Seattle Mariners fan I've been watching a minor league team in a major league ball park for the last 10 years so going to a Tacoma Rainiers game or an Everett AquaSox game actually provided better entertainment.

2. The atmosphere is fun, the tickets and food cheap and the fans are into the game. They are great entertainment.

3. Minor league teams have the coolest names and the coolest logos.

Take the Eugene Emeralds for example. They rebranded and wanted to keep the "Emeralds" nickname but wanted a whole new look for the team. And what could be better than a logo featuring a big foot? Nothing! I'm thinking I have to get me one of these shirts!

The kind of people you meet on the bus...

So as Casey said earlier, I took the Greyhound bus to Seattle this weekend for the Sounders game. Thinking that it would be a cheap, stress-free way to get across the state, I soon discovered that only a special "kind of people" ride the bus.

1. Smelly People. Apparently when these people buy tickets they decide that "hmm, I will be in an enclosed space with lots of people for an extended period of time. Hmm I shouldn't bathe for five days before my bus trip."

2. Job Corps People. You know the kids that drop of high school. Well they join the Job Corps to work and get their GED or something like that, I'm not really sure because I was too busy listening to their broken-down Eminem stories of being gansters and breaking the rules in Job Corp. Keep in mind that these are 17-year old kids are from Curlew and Ephrata, so they have no idea what gansters are, nor do they have any right to pose as one.

3. Cougars. Fourty-year old dressed like a 23-year old girl, going after a 23-year old guy. Check. Okay now don't touch me.

4. I'm pretty sure this guy was a wizard. Had a beard, a large gut, and a magical bag full of Dungeon and Dragons stuff. Wow.

5. Smokers. Everytime the bus would stop, roughly half the people would rush out to sneak a smoke in during these five minute downtime periods. Quite comical.

6. People that were "left in Spokane." And apparently get a bus ticket back to Seattle and call up whoever they were left by and leave a curse-word filled voice message in their mail box.

7. Girls who apparently sleep with a lot of guys the night before and talk to their friends over the phone about it in very specific detail. "Oh my gosh, like, what was I thinking last night."

Oh and apparently Greyhound Buses go through every small town in the state, and I was quite amused by the freeway that leads into Everett that goes over an expanse of farmland. You've got the raised thruway overlooking pig and chicken pens. WELCOME TO WASHINGTON!!! YEEHAW!

Alright enough with that... Go Sounders!