Meeting Mike Adams

Today I took the boys to a local Whataburger for a Texas Rangers player appearance.  Mike Adams (pitcher for the Texas Rangers) came to sign autographs for fans.  This was our first time to go to an event like this and we arrived just in time! Adams was scheduled to arrive at 10:30 am and we got to the parking lot at 10:05.  The line looked like the line for the Texas Giant at Six Flags!  We walked up and got wrist bands 221, 222, & 223 out of 225 that were being handed out!  If you had a wrist band, you were guaranteed a signature.  Whew!  That was close!

Mike Adams arrived promptly at 10:30 and by 11:15 we were inside the Whataburger getting baseballs signed (could you sign your name 225 times in 45 minutes?!?).  While we were waiting in the parking lot, however, there was plenty of entertainment.  Yes...the Rangers fans provided a lot of entertainment/amusement...but so did Captain (the Rangers mascot) and some of the TX Rangers Six Shooters (cute girls who help with Rangers promotions...they were putting on temporary tattoos and making things out of balloons for the kids).  One of the Rangers staff took a picture (like this one) of the boys with Captain and it appeared on the Texas Rangers Facebook page!

 

See all these people still waiting for an autograph?  These are the people who were in line behind us!  These people didn't have wrist bands, so they weren't even guaranteed they'd get an autograph...but they love the Rangers so much they were willing to wait for the chance at one!

 

Brody brought a Texas Rangers souvenior baseball that we got him at a game last year.  After Mike Adams signed it, he turned to me and said, "I touched Mike Adams hand!!!!" 

 

I should've looked at the ball Barrett picked to bring before we left the house.  It was some giveaway ball.  It has the mastercard logo on one side and some ad for a home run derby on the other side!  I wonder what Adams thought when he was handed that ball?  I hope he didn't relate it to how much Barrett valued the autograph....because you better believe that signed ball is now sitting in an enclosed baseball case on Barrett's nightstand.  He is sooooo proud of the fact that he has a ball signed by Mike Adams!!

 

Not only did the event run smothly on the Rangers part, Whataburger did an amazing job of keeping everything organized and getting food out quick!  They even gave out free whoppers!  It may have just been a quick run in with a baseball allstar....but I think it was a highlight of the summer for our boys!