Ems' 2008 Best of photos

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“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

- Yogi Berra

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As a season 2008 was a real barn burner for the Ems. Tied for first in the division, had the league's Most Valuable Player, outstanding outfielder Daniel Robertson.

I've a ton of photos to post, many outstanding shots of many of this year's Emerald players. Here is a start, working backwards a bit with some shots from the season's last game.

I will add comentary as I start going back through the season's images.

Enjoy! And if there is a player you want me to post a photo of let me know: allan_e@efn.org

Or if you want prints, please, just ask.
















































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2008? Oh yeah!

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“There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.”

~ Casey Stengel
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One of my customers (hiya Steve!) at my real job mentioned the other day there weren't any 2008 photos up on my blog. And danged if he isn't right.

This year is different than last year. Last year I was striving to make my photography and writing my full time gig. I only made it partway. And, when you have kids to feed, bills to pay and all those other nuisances life throws at us... welllll... it takes full time wages to live up to all those responsibilities. So...

I have maintained my other blog -- The Morning Donut -- but this Ems picture blog has been neglected. I do have quite a backlog of Ems' photos to post but that will have to wait for this weekend. For now I'm just going to supply you the links to the galleries of my photos that the Padres' Denis Savage, over at Scout.com, has put up.

Oh... and by the way... Friday (Aug 1) is Ems' baseball card day.

Denis has posted 3 galleries so far and here they are:

Gallery I

Gallery II

Gallery III

I'll be back in a few days and put up some more. I'll be posting plenty of my player pics and some of those crowd pictures I so thoroughly enjoy taking. Without the crowd... baseball is just a bunch of guys running around.

Until then, then...
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“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”

~ George F. Will

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A few days off...

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

- Yogi Berra

The Ems are gone on a road trip after a pretty successful homestand including a 3 game series against the Vancouver (BC) team in which the Ems won 2 and lost 1 and scored 34 runs in those 3 games. The second game of the series the Ems scored 18 runs and every starter scored at least 1 run.

Here are a few pics from that series, including one I really like of Mitch Canham signing autographs at the Ems' dugout after the game. All the other players have gone and Mitch stands alone with a crowd of fans. Thats class. Something I'm thinking Ems' Manager Greg Riddoch is gonna be pretty good at instilling in a lot of his players.

Also posted today, Eric Sogard and Keith Conlon being interviewed; what it would look like if Eugeneoids stayed home and didn't go to Civic Stadium; what the crowd looks like when the fans do show up; good guy Josh Bidwell standing w/ his teammate in the bag toss (they lost against Luke Ridenour and his teammate and this poor kid was really sad. Good job cheering her up Josh!); almost always (not when he's pitching) Jackson "K"zada smiling; and... Justin Baum and Ems fans gawking skyward as the Airship Radio Theatre's hot air (boy howdy!) Airship passes over Civic Stadium.

And as a treat for you U of O Duck fans, I'll soon be posting a rare picture indeed... the U of O's Jonathon Stewart on a tricycle.

Until next time... enjoy.