I got a stick I need some sigs for, so I guess.

I am! I had so much fun last year.

I don’t really have anything worth getting autographed at the moment. I’m going to hang out and for short roller coaster lines (pending physician clearance)

I get outta work too late to try to get all the way over to PG county on a Tuesday.

Mentioned yesterday that it just doesn’t seem worth the effort. Too much to do, too much of a drive to Six Flags. Totally not into roller coasters.

Perhaps next year I will be a STH so I can go to the party…

Too far away. I apologize that I didn’t offer the tickets up to someone here.

Slightly better run this year, but they really kept to the 75 minute autograph time block.

Lines for autographs were really long this year. Last year we got almost everyone (not Ovie and Feds and the guys they were paired up with), this year just a handful. Much more of the park was open, which was nice. But it was COLD!

Juice was in front of us for the hotdog line, which was amusing.

Brian Pothier took a couple of extra seconds with everyone to ask them how they were doing, etc. Friendliest guy of the night. Erskine was also really friendly. (If they get video up on those two signing, and some ditzy girl stumbles in front of the camera tripping over her own feet, that’s me. My gymnastics skills have abandoned me!)

Mike Green stayed extra at his table to sign autographs for everyone in his line. I may joke about him being a space cadet, but he was determined to make as many people happy as possible.

Tyler Sloan has the most legible signature of any professional athlete.

Mike Knuble’s little boy made my night. The Knuble children were hovering around the table (occasionally hovering on their father). Knuble was signing our stuff when his little boy leans across the table at me and says “Look, I got my arm painted! That’s my dad’s number!” Sure enough, the whole forearm and hand is cover in “Let’s Go Caps!” and a big 22 and Caps logos. He was very excited to show someone and I was happy to oblige. We exchanged high fives and I confirmed that, yes, his arm was “awesome.”

Ovie in street clothes is still a massive guy.

I was surprised at how many kids were there. Clearly, there are a lot of people plunking down a lot of money for the whole family to have season tickets. (Clearly, my parents didn’t love me enough to do that for me as a kid!)

Um, I think that’s it. The cold and my troublesome knee sent us home a bit early, but the highlight of these things for me is the autographs.

I also had a blast! We only got a few autographs, but that’s only because we had most of them already. After dinner we went over to Ride of Steel – hands down best coaster I’ve ever ridden! When we got in line for our row on the car, Ovi, Semin and Brooksie hopped on the ride right in front of us. They rode twice, and I got a great picture of Semin and Ovi in the front car riding back into the station.