This game got a special poster which, after a brief baseball history lesson, made me feel a bit... awkward. But I figure the whole "Black Socks" scandal is obsolete enough now that most Astros and Red Sox fans would understand that's not what my point was. I hope.
I unfortunately couldn't fit Valverde or Oswalt into the poster to complete the usual "sockers". Funny enough, I also based this off of a photo I took from the Brewers game of a few of the boys standing for the national anthem. What's funny about it is that Erstad and Pence in the poster would actually be Matsui and Tejada in the photo. Oh well.
And sketches from the game didn't get to start until the 4th or 5th inning as we were late arriving and I had a very tasty chili-dog before I got down to business.
Astros vs Red Sox
On this page: Erstad, Pence, Abercrombie, and quite a bit of Blum
Hernandez is our new pitcher and this was the first game I got to see Newhan in so they got big ol "n00b" labels. Welcome to the sketchbook boys!
Tonight they had Kazuo's Classroom where he taught us some Japanese!
"It's Outta Here!" "Suttanda Ni Haitta!"
At least, I believe that's how it was spelt.
