Mayor of Bullpenland

The August 26th doubleheader between the Sky Sox and the Las Vegas 51's, two baseball games, one dancing bullpen and the kickoff of, what looked like, Justin Hampson's campaign to be Mayor of Bullpenland.

Mayoral candidate Hampson, far right, speaks with voters,
like #73 Robert Carson, about their everyday concerns
like not enough dancing in the bullpen.

Candidate Hampson responds with, "dancing? you want
more dancing? Well, check this out...

...If they want bullpen dancing, dammit,
I'll give them bullpen dancing."

As the center of the pen grew weary of Justin's constant pleas for their votes Hampson shifted his focus to the far right of the bullpen...

A good smile goes a long way in any political campaign...

...but one must also address the issues,
"you too want more dancing? Okay.
Time to break out the big guns..."

..."Here's Justin Hampson's sexy-time dance explosion!
Aaaaaand! I've got your vote!"

Time to keep walking the town...

"Wherever there are dudes to talk to...I'll be there."

"Hi guys! I'm Justin Hampson, I grab my crotch a lot
and I want to be Mayor of Bullpenland!"

But even the Mayor of Bullpenland has to pitch now and then...

"Oh, shit! I gotta pitch!"

And pitch he did, with a scoreless 7th in game one and the save in game two...

Justin Hampson for Mayor of Bullpenland

He can talk
He can dance
He can scratch
He can pitch

Thank you for your vote!

Bonus pic! Here's Justin from 2006 when he was pitching for the Sky Sox:

Thanks Justin!

Vegas Dance Off!

The Las Vegas 51's are in town and DAMN! if they didn't bring their dancin' shoes!

First up for the 51's is #38 Sean Henn!

Sean, in the middle with his arms crossed, was just chillin'
when he busted out the "chair dance"!

Nice use of a prop Mr. Henn. 7/10!

Next up is catcher Kai Gronauer, showing the boys his "moves":

My milkshake brings all the boys to the (ball)yard...

Way to shake it Kai! 3rd up on our list is #73 Robert Carson:

Great facial expression Robert!
Shows that you're really, really into it.

Oh no! Look out Robert! It's the boss-man! Las Vegas manager Wally Backstrom!

Grrrrrr. Harumph! Something's going on somewhere.

HEY! What the hell are you doing back there?

Who me skip?
It's cool!

What does Justin Hampson, a former Sky Sox player, 2005-2006, think of this Vegas Style Bullpen Dance Party:

Justin Hampson thinks it's Flippin' AWESOME!

BONUS TIME! The original dancer from the May 1, 2013 post Dance You Fool! Dance! was not Sean Henn as we believed, but the one and only Justin Hampson! You rock dude!

Cowards!

I know I focus on the visitor's bullpen a lot. Truth be told, it's in better light and they always seem to be doing interesting stuff because they have no where else to go. The Sky Sox bullpen is in the shadows and they can all sneak around the back way and go hang out in their clubhouse, so it's sparsely populated at most times. But not on July 26th...

It's chill. Just minding out own business...

...FOUL BALL LINE SHOT!
Wakes the hell up!...

...Rob Scahill, far right, seems to be checking
for something in his pants while the rest
look like they're on a ride at Disneyland...

...you know, if a couple of you wore your gloves
crap like this wouldn't happen. Just saying.

Whatcha Doing?

There's living on the edge, and then there's LIVIN' ON THE EDGE! I'm guessing this would fall under the "neither" category. 

Ryan Ortiz #6 - "Hey. Whatcha doing?"
Mysterious Glove Fixin' Guy #46 - "Fixin' my glove."
 Ryan Ortiz - "Can I watch?"
Mysterious Glove Fixin' Guy #46 - "Sure. I guess."

Pedro Figueroa #32 - "Mind if I watch too?"
Paul Smyth #35 - "Me too! Me too! I want to watch!"

Kyler Newby #16 - "You fixing your glove?"
Mysterious Glove Fixin' Guy #46 - "Yeah."
Brian Gordon #18 - "Ooo! Ooo! Can I watch?"

LOOK OUT!

The Nashville Sounds bullpen is so, so chill...

What's cooler than cool?
ICE COLD!

...and then, in a flash, FOUL BALL comin' at 'cha!

Sweet Jesus! It's a BALL!

RUN! PANIC!! DAMMIT! DO SOMETHING!!!

You can never get too far away!
If only someone had one of those leather glove thingys
you can use to catch those awful, awful balls!

There it is! That's the one! It came right at us!

Panic over. Time to re-chill.

Guy (third from the right) - "Did you see how brave I was?"
Other guys - "We was all brave. So very, very brave."

What The Hell Are They Doing?

With the Sky Sox crawling home on a 2-13 skid, the thoughts of a once promising season now turn to other things...and one of those things is this series of shots from the Salt Lake bullpen where their boys spent a lot of time flicking something, we couldn't tell what, hell, they could have been pretending to flick stuff just to mess with us, off into space.

Hey! It's Bees' reliever Ryan Brasier!
And he's doing stuff!

And...no one seems to care about Ryan's flicking ability...

...except, maybe, for the dude on the far right...

...and OFF it goes!
(whatever it is).

Always important to have a good follow-through...
and, HOT DAMN! The boy's a magician!
He flicked a baseball out of nowhere!

And now that Brasier's got them going, not that the rest of the pen showed enough to care, more guys get in on the act.

Here's Buddy Boshers flickin' it.

I'm the King of the World!
Whoever I am.

Were they flicking sunflower seeds? Something else? If you know let us know (and if you know who the King of the World is let us know that too).

Reservoir Bees

The boys in the Salt Lake bullpen pulled their best Reservoir Dogs impression during their last visit to Security Service Field at Mile High.

You boys walk out of the bullpen together like that
you're going to need some theme music to play over it.

It was early in the game and they all went up to the clubhouse,
probably to kill someone or something.

Play the video below and look at those boys above. Awesome isn't it?

Reservoir Dogs. Great movie. A tad violent, but hey, what are you going to do?

Now this would be a sweet alternate jersey for any team.

Oh geez! Cover your ears! Here they come!

Which one is Mr. Pink?

Nicely played boys. You'se got style.

Aliens!

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K Security Service Field at Mile High. Strange as in UFOs and Aliens and infected/infested players in the visiting bullpen.

With Tim Wheeler batting one of Salt Lake's "Aliens" puts
the kibosh on his swing and erases any memory of the event,
and maybe gives him space bugs.

How do we know that guy on the far right is an Alien? Well, explain this:

“They mostly come out at night, mostly.” 

Kay-riste! Dude doesn't have a nose or mouth! What the hell?!

Confirmed! Freak-haired History Channel guy says so!

So, if Giorgio Tsoukalos from the History Channel (you know that bastard of a channel that doesn't show history anymore. They're almost as bad as The Learning Channel. Almost, Honey Boo Boo sets the bar pretty low.) says that guy's an Alien. That guy's an Alien. And is having an Alien on your team bad? Hell yeah it's bad! I heard from Giorgio that Aliens make everyone around them sick. His best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw that same Alien lay it's eggs under the skin of some of the guys in the Bees' bullpen and that they passed out at 31 Flavors last night. So you can see it's pretty serious.

Yup. That's a team with space bugs.

Bugs! Them boys got bugs!

Baseball Is Boring

In honor of the Sky Sox taking on the Sacramento River Cats tonight here is a shot of a really bored Sacramento bullpen from July 9th:

From left to right - staring at the ground guy, trimming his nails guy,
bored bullpen catcher guy, so bored he can't stop yawning guy,
staring off into space guy, this is even boring in Japanese guy &
this is even more boring as Japanese translator guy.

BONUS! The fans! - blonde chick, bald dude &...

...a dude with poor posture wearing a t-shirt that
has a nakedish He-Man guy riding a bear/tiger thingy.

He looks bored, but you can't be bored with a t-shirt like that. He's got to be so intense he just looks bored.