Blogmaster CK is out of town watching baseball in the good old USA and relaxing with his family. The Lynx are out of town also, playing baseball not too far away somewhere in the USA and, you know what they say, giving it the old College Try, right? This is the last road trip before our boys return on the 29th for the final home stand of the season. Did you notice the last bit of that sentence? “Of the season.” Ever the optimist I am not mentioning the subject that everyone has been asking me about all season. It’s kind of like not mentioning a no-hitter while it’s happening. I’m not going to be the one to jinx anything.

The final home stand of a baseball season is always bittersweet. I always ask myself, “So what the heck am I supposed to do now?” Come Labour day ones schedule opens wide leaving free time galore. Yes, there is the World Series that plays into October but that’s on the TV, not the same experience is it? Maybe a trip to Toronto in September beckons but that is a luxury, really. Trains and hotels and restaurants, oh my.

I’ll quote Rogers Hornsby here: “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

I’m going to make the most out of this final series at Ottawa Stadium. I’ll be bringing plenty of friends, many of whom have been promising to catch a game all season and now are finally tagging along due my threat of, “Hey, it’s the last series of the year. Let’s go, buddy.”

I’ve been leaving my camera at home for the past few games, keeping score instead and cheering and singing with my baseball pals. I’d scan in some of my score pages but you’d find them fairly inaccurate. Due to our boisterousness, a very common score marking is WL (wasn’t looking.) But here are a few snapshots of August at the yard in no particular order. See you at the game.

Relatively “new guy” Gookie Dawkins is a favourite in our section. He’s got good wheels and, well, his name is Gookie. What more do you need?

Gary Burnham’s game tying three run shot against the Chiefs back on Holiday Monday.

Matt Childers drops to make a close play at first.

And the obligatory cute baby picture. Darby is born to be a Lynx fan, of course.

Update by Patrick.