It feels really nice to be watching baseball again. Although the between-innings music they are piping into the T-Dome sounds unspeakably dreadful even in tiny servings.
11 : Even before the homer, the Red Sox radio announcers were identifying him as one of the most underrated players in the league, and I wondered if they'd been reading Catfish Stew.
16 I feel like one of the little people in "The Sims." You can get them out of bed when their energy bar is at zero, but they ain't gonna like it. I particularly felt this way when drinking my first cup of coffee, I could imagine the little green arrows zipping my energy bar slightly towards full... for a second.
The bottom of the first inning demonstrated to me why the A's shouldn't crater this year: they're not likely to waste many at-bats this season on guys with no plate value whatsoever.
24 I wasn't happy to see him go....here's hoping that Kotsay will do his part and put up a 220/310/330 through April so we can get Jordan Shafer up by mid May.
I can't believe we had 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. feedings and I couldn't get the game on. The weird thing is that most of our HBO is out too, but all the other channels seem to work.
I'm in Montréal. We don't have the Expos anymore, but hey, opening day baseball on TV, in the morning, before leaving for work, when it's about -15 Celsius in the morning, with about 5 feet of snow everywhere... That's not too bad!
I actually woke up around 5:00 I think and had the TV, but then I went back to sleep sort of and had one of those states where you're dreaming, but the stuff on the TV is incorporated into your dreams.
The A's and Red Sox were actually playing in an outdoor stadium attached to a department store.
Eventually, my cat knocked something off of my dresser and then I woke up for good in the bottom of the 10th.
On the downside, I just woke up to watch the game, but my DVR blew it. I don't know what happened. I live in the Bay Area, but the Murky News doesn't list a local broadcast so I don't think ESPN2 should have been blacked out.
And the archive on MLB.tv wasn't up yet, and my best efforts to block the screen couldn't keep me from seeing the Sox won, so screw waiting. No way I can watch a recorded sporting event that I know the result to.
I set the alarm for 3am, and had the TV on ESPN2, but I was in and out of sleep the entire game. Pretty much only heard audio. I'll try again tomorrow since I don't have a late-ending Laker game to contend with tonight.
Yeah. You must live where you get a local feed of the game.
I'm getting ESPN2 just fine. Oh, boy, Steve Phillips. Yay.
At the very least, you will get a lot of Bobby Crosby commentary with Phillips in the booth.
Man, I'm tired.
The bottom of the first inning demonstrated to me why the A's shouldn't crater this year: they're not likely to waste many at-bats this season on guys with no plate value whatsoever.
No.
That looked like a ball to me.
Nice play, Jacoby.
The A's and Red Sox were actually playing in an outdoor stadium attached to a department store.
Eventually, my cat knocked something off of my dresser and then I woke up for good in the bottom of the 10th.
Now the feeling is not so good as the game is over and I'm stuck at work for another 6 hours with a stiff neck from not sleeping enough.
Ah baseball, the things I do for you...
a) sleeping through the first game of the season
b) waking up to hear that the closer on one of my fantasy teams blew the save
And the archive on MLB.tv wasn't up yet, and my best efforts to block the screen couldn't keep me from seeing the Sox won, so screw waiting. No way I can watch a recorded sporting event that I know the result to.
how about Joe Morgan inhabiting it?
http://diablomag.com/D-blog/Best-Of-Editor-Picks/January-2008/Oakland-As-Opening-Day-Night-Fever-Dream-Blog/
http://tinyurl.com/388hkn
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