{"id":317516,"date":"2009-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casadecampoliving.com\/adventures-in-the-dr-me-a-baseball-star\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:46:36","slug":"adventures-in-the-dr-me-a-baseball-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casadecampoliving.com\/es\/adventures-in-the-dr-me-a-baseball-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in the DR: me, a baseball star?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/casadecampoliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/toros-me.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/casadecampoliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/toros-me.jpg?resize=580%2C435&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"toros me\" class=\"wp-image-8135\" title=\"toros me\" height=\"435\" width=\"580\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casadecampoliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/toros-me.jpg\"><\/a>I was recently invited to the Francisco.A.Micheli Baseball stadium in La Romana \u2013 in my capacity of Casa de Campo Living editor and respected journalist, to photograph and interview the Los Toros del Este Baseball players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I of course was thrilled to be invited and off I went \u2013 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 \u2013 always ready for a camera opportunity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My problems began when I started \u2018interviewing\u2019 the Los Toros players, starting from not having a clue who was who \u2013 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\u2019d anticipated \u2013 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 \u2018game\u2019 a \u2018match.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The worst moment was when I asked Chris Petit:<\/p><p>\u201cSo has it always been big aim for you to come to the Dominican Republic and play?\u201d<\/p><p>to which he replied: \u201cum, well my goal is obviously to play for the big leagues.\u201d<\/p><p>At the time I didn\u2019t realize how terrible this was!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2013 and they seemed only to happy to accommodate my whim! Below you can watch the video of me \u2018batting\u2019 for Los Toros \u2013 aqui to\u2019somos Toros!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xRI27xWY5WU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/object><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Thank you to Elizabeth Silfa for giving me this great opportunity to humiliate myself once again!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To watch the videos of my interviews, follow the below links:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/casadecampoliving.com\/2009\/10\/los-toros-video-interview-with-chris-bennet\/\">Los Toros: video interview with Chris Petit<br>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/casadecampoliving.com\/2009\/10\/los-toros-interview-with-dean-treanor-team-manager\/\">Los Toros: video interview with Dean Treanor, team manager<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please send all fanmail, as well as offers of acting, modeling or interviewing jobs to info@casadecampoliving.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Am I really the ONLY person who has these kind of crazy experiences? 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