Short, Sweet and To-The-Point: My Recent Trip To Spring Training in 12 Random Factoids.

• The area really DOES consist primarily of old people.
  
• Average attendance for the three games I was at was around 2200.
  
• I was five rows above the plate. It was mind-blowing to be that close.
  
• You could hear a pin drop in the stadium sometimes.
  
• The netting was screwing up my pictures because the camera was auto-focusing on it, making everything on the other side blurry. I snuck down to the front to take a few pictures with the lens poking through the netting. A fave:
  
  
  When I get a break from work, I'll open a new photobucket account and upload the rest.
  
• American Diet Pepsi is gross.
  
• The sunshine was nice, but the cold winds in the evening sucked, especially on sunburned skin.
  
• I got a few autographs, and I managed to not be a dorkwad. Uh, except the incident in which a baby Jay I later discovered to be Scott Campbell had to hand me the sharpie I dropped on the other side of the fence, but I didn't recognize him. *facepalm* I thought it would have been dorkier to have to ask him who he was, so I kept my mouth shut.
  
• The beer at Dunedin Brewery is to die for.
  
• Trying to use the 5-digit phone numbers for Facebook and Twitter was a complete pile of fail.
  
• I loved Clearwater and could totally live there ...for one month of the year.
  
• The cheeseburgers barbecued at the stadium are the best I've had in ages. Nom.