I live just 2 blocks north of Dr Pepper Ballpark, home of the Texas Rangers AA Frisco Roughriders farm team. I'll go to one or two games there a year willingly, that due to the fact my hosts agree in advance to ply me liberally with brats, nachos, and beer.
After every Friday night home game the ballpark treats fans (and the neighborhood) to a first class fireworks show. I love fireworks, but I don't want to see them from blocks away. I want to be right underneath them....I want to FEEL them when they explode.
Last night it was reasonably cool....well..."not hot", so I thought I'd walk a block down to the park that separates my complex from the ballpark and get a ringside seat to the fireworks show. To time it just right I found the radio broadcast of the game on some obscure AM station.
Honestly, and I know this will offend some so I'll just apologize now, I can't stand baseball. It just bores me to tears. I mean, 1 guy on offense, 9 guys on defense. How fair is that? And talk about over-paid Prima Donna's? Jeez! (I heard on the sports that some player....I didn't get his name....is on injured reserve after hurting his pinkie finger high-fiving a team mate. Way to go, Stud!)
So I was very painfully listening to the ball game on the radio. With one out in the bottom of the 9th I leashed up 'Lil Fucker (aka Luke, the dog) and we headed out. A couple of minutes later I was at the park settled in on a comfy bench.
Five minutes later....10 minutes later....15 minutes later....turns out it wasn't as "not hot' as I thought....nothing. COME ON ALREADY!
Finally I called home and asked K to listen in to the game again and see if it was in extra innings. Well DUH! Yes, of course it was. I'm sure some guy in the press box looked waaaaay out past the left field fence and saw me sitting there, sweating, and gave the signal to hit a late home run and tie the game.
I came home and was just getting into bed an hour+ later when I heard the first KABOOM!
Murphy's Law / Scott's Corollary ;)
S
I don't understand baseball. The TV just showed a SF Giants pitcher who threw a perfect game. The stadium was going wild, the dugout emptied as they rushed the mound to congratulate the pitcher for his great accomplishment, etc. Not one of the opponents even made it to first base. That would be like the defense in a football game holding the other team to no first downs. *Yawn* If you had a football game where the final score was 3-0, the stands would have been emptied by the start of the fourth quarter. That would be one B O R I N G game.
The baseball games I've been to were very relaxed events. People just wander around, visiting at length with familiar faces who regularly sit nearby, they take forever to go get a hot dog and a beer....just a very slow moving, relaxed affair. It's almost as if the game itself is a side note. I guess to hard core fans that's the beauty of it. Good for 'em I suppose. I just prefer a little more adrenaline in my sports. :)
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My hometown team is in the World Series, and (nearly) everyone here is excited about it. I tried to be excited, too, but I just can't work up any enthusiasm. I dutifully turned on the TV at 7 last night to watch the game. After just a couple of innings K started yawning and wandered off to iron a couple of shirts while I sat there watching intently. After another couple of innings I was reading a magazine between pitches, hoping somebody would do something soon as I was rapidly losing interest. By the 7th inning I threw in the towel and turned it off.
I'm sorry, but I've failed as a baseball fan. It must be an acquired taste. I know many of you are avid baseball fans, and I'm happy for you. It is, after all, advertised to be America's Pastime...."baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet" and all that, but Jeez...it is SO boring. It's like watching grass grow. This is a sport where a "no hitter" is considered to be an amazing feat. If no one hits the ball, what's the point? Do they eventually just agree to turn off the lights and go home? (Kidding....I know the rules. It just seems like the last thing MLB should want is a game with no hits.)
I'm thinking I might need to learn something about hockey. It looks like a tough sport, one where you can get your nose broken playing it, which everyone knows is the deciding factor between whether something is a "sport" or a "game". Then I could have two sports to keep up with. (I know they call it a football game, but let's face it, you can get all kinds of body parts broken playing football. It's a sport. Checkers, chess, curling, croquet, golf, Monopoly....those are games.)
One thing I will say about baseball....they generally have excellent hot dogs there. :)
S
I'm watching the women's soccer championship and I must say soccer is one boring game. Jeez....it just goes on and on and....
And now it's going into overtime. I keep hoping they'll stop the game to re-stripe the field or mow the grass....anything. (At least hockey has a Zamboni.)
Go USA. Zzzzzzzzzz.....
S
EDIT: I finally gave up and took the dog out for her dootie call, and when I got back it was over. Bummer.
