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I was recently invited to the Francisco.A.Micheli Baseball stadium in La Romana – in my capacity of Casa de Campo Living editor and respected journalist, to photograph and interview the Los Toros del Este Baseball players.
I of course was thrilled to be invited and off I went – armed with only my camera and what turned out to be a hugely inadequate understanding of Basaball! However, having learned from my previous bad experiences I was at least adequately dressed and made-up – always ready for a camera opportunity!
My problems began when I started ‘interviewing’ the Los Toros players, starting from not having a clue who was who – I kept trying to interview the wrong people; from waterboys to the opposition team members. When I finally managed to locate some real bona-fide Los Toros players the interviewing process was certainly not as easy as I’d anticipated – I had no idea what to ask and so ended up asking the most ridiculous and irrelevant questions, not to mention making mistakes such as calling the ‘game’ a ‘match.’
The worst moment was when I asked Chris Petit:
“So has it always been big aim for you to come to the Dominican Republic and play?”
to which he replied: “um, well my goal is obviously to play for the big leagues.”
At the time I didn’t realize how terrible this was!
Soon after that I gave up on the interviewing and persuaded some nice Los Toros players who were practicing batting to give me a try – and they seemed only to happy to accommodate my whim! Below you can watch the video of me ‘batting’ for Los Toros – aqui to’somos Toros!
Thank you to Elizabeth Silfa for giving me this great opportunity to humiliate myself once again!
To watch the videos of my interviews, follow the below links:
Los Toros: video interview with Chris Petit
Los Toros: video interview with Dean Treanor, team manager
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Am I really the ONLY person who has these kind of crazy experiences? If you have any interesting stories, memories or photos you would like to share with our Casa de Campo Living community please email info@casadecampoliving.com