Tonight’s game was “Western Night” at Minute Maid Park, so it was appropriate that our at our first game in Texas we received cowboy hats. However, this post will mainly highlight one thing—my inability lately to throw a good first pitch. Let me start off by saying I’m already dreading the comments that will come from the video in this post. As you might recall, our first pitch in Cincinnati did not go as planned, I threw a last second curveball that got away from Chris. I took the mound again today and tried to redeem the Tour for the Cure. Alas, it was probably my worst first pitch to date. Now I know how to throw a first pitch. I used to play baseball for many years, it’s not rocket science. But after driving for 6 hours, and combining that with not having an opportunity to warm up my arm at all and having Chris behind the plate, I was pretty much setting myself up for disaster. So without further ado, here it is below.


If you listen closely, you can even hear the announcer heckling us. Before long word will get out that I can’t handle first pitch responsibilities and will soon be banned from all pre-game activities.

Minute Maid Park is a great stadium, and although you might catch a glimpse of it on tv I must say it looks a lot better in person. If you are looking for a good place to go in Houston, Minute Maid park is a pretty good place to be.

After the game, we headed to see my former fellow CFARian and current rockstar Matt O’Dowd and the rest of Liam and Me who happened to be on tour in the same city as us. Tonight’s show was the first sell out of the tour, and it probably had something to do with the fact that both Matt and I were going to be in the same building that brought all the people together. Liam and Me has just finished recording their first record and are touring across the US and A much like the Tour for the Cure trying to spread the good word. It was good to trade stories about life on the road and talk with people who can relate to living out of their car. Click here to see a few different pictures from the night. Afterwards we headed to a random mansion-esque house north of Texas for the night was big enough to house both the Liam and Me entourage plus the Tour for the Cure team. It was a good night, and by the end I had almost forgotten how badly I blew the first pitch at the Astros game.