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Another photo gallery…this one from our Breakfast with Buster Holiday Food and Toy Drive on Saturday. The BlueClaws and Salvation Army of Ocean County thank everyone for their support and for braving the snow, making it out to donate.
Also a special thanks to Manhattan Bagel of Brick for providing free bagels for everyone at the event.
Just a quick heads up…Saturday is the annual Breakfast with Buster holiday food and toy drive here at FirstEnergy Park. Basically as follows:
Last week we asked our Twitter family for some BlueClaws bowling team names. We got some good ones, but our favorites were Alley Claws and Pinchy’s Pin Busters. Ben Hill of MiLB.com threw in a few generic bowling team names, like:
The Hook-y Leagues
The Liberal Strike Zones
Hall of Framers
Bowl Durham
Slow Rollers
The Split-chell Report
You have any you want to add? Leave them in the comments section. More on the bowling league, to be held beginning next month at The Lanes at Sea Girt below the fold.
It looks like the 2010 Phillies Winter Tour stop in Lakewood will be on January 11th, a Monday night (no, not the same night as the Alabama/Texas football game).
That, however, is all we have right now. We’ll certainly keep you posted. If you want more information, utilize the comments section below.
Click here to see photos from the 2009 Winter Tour.
Before you head out to the malls on December 19th, the last pre-Christmas shopping Saturday, stop by FirstEnergy Park with an unwrapped toy or non-perishable food.
It’s our annual Breakfast With Buster Holiday Food and Toy Drive. Buster and Santa will be there collecting items for the Salvation Army of Ocean County.
We’ll provide free bagels and coffee plus the chance for the kids to meet Buster and Santa, plus take some pictures too. 9 am – 11 am.
Have some spare time? Want a great way to split up the work week? Then don’t strike out. Join the new BlueClaws Bowling League. Funny bowling team names here.
The BlueClaws have partnered with the Lanes at Sea Girt to form a bowling league where all participants get a complimentary BlueClaws ticket package! Details:
To sign up, call the Lanes at Sea Girt at 732-449-4942.
Earlier today, we had a chance to talk with Marc Rosenthal, a paralegal from Princeton, New Jersey and winner of Choose Your Champ, the BlueClaws/Trenton Thunder World Series prediction contest.
Over 1,000 entered, sending in their Phillies/Yankees prediction (winner, number of games, and MVP). No one predicted all three, so everyone that had the Yankees and then either six games or Hideki Matsui, was entered into a drawing.
“I was shocked,” said Rosenthal, who chose to go to Opening Day at the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, a trip that will be financed by the BlueClaws (since the Phillies lost the World Series).
He predicted Yankees in 6, but had CC Sabathia as the series MVP.
“I’ve been to Citizens Bank Park but I have never been to the new Yankee Stadium,” he said.
A native New Yorker and Mets fan, Rosenthal “stayed neutral” during the World Series. “There were too many Yankee fans and Phillies fans in our office.” He decided to anger as few people as possible.
“Being from New York, I never really had anything against the Yankees,” he added. “But the Phillies, they’re the Mets’ natural rival.”
You may remember our Choose Your Champ contest that the BlueClaws did with the Trenton Thunder. We asked fans to email in a World Series prediction (winner, number of games, and MVP) with the winner receiving a trip to Opening Day in Philly or the Bronx, paid for by the BlueClaws (if the Yankees won, which they did) or by the Thunder (had the Phillies won)…Without further adieu…
Last year the BlueClaws, for the first time, hosted three networking nights, a package called Nine Innings of Networking, and this program is back in 2010.
Each networking event (May 25th, July 20th, August 30th) is held in the OF picnic area and features a 90-minute buffet, business card raffles, presenters, and more.
For more information on Nine Innings of Networking:
Some picture of Buster on the trick-or-treating trail (we auctioned this off on eBay to benefit BlueClaws Charities)…
The BlueClaws were presented the following by the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders last week: 
The Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Commends the
Lakewood BlueClaws
Not Only Are You
South Atlantic League Champions
in Baseball, but You Are
Truly Champions in the Community
Wednesday at FirstEnergy Park, we’ll have a special check presentation ceremony from OceanFirst Foundation as we wrap up year one of Home Runs for Heroes, a unique program which tied local military-based charities to home runs from BlueClaws players.
Every time a BlueClaws player hit a home run at FirstEnergy Park this year, OceanFirst Foundation made a donation of $1,000 to a local military-based non-profit. Final donation tallies below:
| Position | Organization | Amount |
| C | Catholic Charities, Trenton Diocese | $3,000 |
| 1B | American Recreational Military Services | $9,000 |
| 2B | VetGroup | $2,000 |
| 3B | Navy/Marine Relief Society – Earle | $2,000 |
| SS | Navy/Marine Relief Society – Lakehurst | $1,000 |
| LF | Army Emergency Relief – Fort Monmouth | $3,000 |
| CF | National Guard Family Readiness Council | $1,000 |
| RF | American Red Cross | $1,000 |
| DH | Army Emergency Relief – Fort Dix | $2,000 |
ARMS thanks Jim Murphy for hitting seven home runs at home this year and propelling them to the win. Their other two home runs were off the bat of Jeremy Hamilton.
Here are two great ways to enhance the trick-or-treating experience while at the same time helping BlueClaws Charities: we’re auctioning off, on eBay, the chance to trick-or-treat with both Buster and the dynamic trio of Pork Roll, Egg, & Cheese.
Opening bid is $100, and the auction ends in 10 days.
Thanks, and good luck!
Tomorrow, the Roof-man, Ryan Ragan (in his other life he is the COO of Central Jersey Blood Center), heads to the roof of FirstEnergy Park for his week of fun while we collect blood in front of the ballpark.
This time of year, after the high-traffic (and high blood-demand) summer, the supply is usually low, not only because the reserves were tapped, but also because the summer is the lowest blood collection point of the year. That makes what we’re trying to do both cool and important.
“Living on the roof for a week,” said Ragan, “pales in comparison to what some of these kids have to do on a weekly basis. So it’s nothing for me, and important to collect this blood.”
Prizes raffled off throughout the week include a Dr. J autographed jersey, BlueClaws concert tickets, a Bushel of BlueClaws ticket package, and much more (see here).
Hope to see you out here this week (10a – 8p)…ALL DONORS GET A FREE TICKET TO THE BLUECLAWS FIRST PLAYOFF GAME ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, AND THE CHANCE TO TAKE PART IN A PRE-GAME PARADE!
