Tag: baseball
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Cardinals-Giants
Just a quick note on yesterday’s game. We went to see the Cardinals play the Giants at AT&T park, and managed to get seats from Sarah’s work – they have a luxury box and rotate who gets tickets, so we went with maybe a dozen of Sarah’s coworkers and their families. This was the first…
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Opening Day
Opening Frickin’ Day, 2010. Today’s the day my iPhone battery life is slashed to a third, because I pull it out ten times an hour to check scores. It’s when I start leaving work at 6:05 so I can listen to the first three innings of a game in Colorado. It’s when I start cursing…
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Baseball pictures
So I’m moving photo pages (again) to Flickr. And in that vein, I have moved all of my baseball pictures into one collection there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkonrath/collections/72157623497422165/ There are 32 sets (30 games, 2 stadium tours) going from the first game I ever went to in 2006 up to last season. I can’t wait for this season…
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A tale of two balls
…baseballs, I mean. Calm down. First, here’s a little early xmas present I got myself the other day: a signed Troy Tulowitzki ball. I netted it from eBay for only twenty bucks. The guy also had Matt Holliday and Jason Giambi balls going for about ten bucks toward the end of their auctions, but I…
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A final coda to the season
Oh yeah, I have not updated since the end of baseball season. People keep commenting about the Yankees buying the World Series, because it’s great to hate the Yankees. My general opinion on that is, “eh.” It’s no secret teams with high payrolls have more success, except the Mets have the second-highest payroll and 2009…
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End of another season
God. Damn. It. I am pissed about the way the Rockies lost tonight. They were winning 4-2 at the top of the 9th, and then a blown save later, the season was over. I spent most of the game pissed, thinking for sure they blew it, and then in the end of the 8th, a…
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Rockies @ A’s
I got a late start this year, but finally got to my first baseball game of the season. Last night, we made the trek down the East Bay to the Coliseum to see the Rockies play the A’s. So here’s my usual bulleted list recap of the game: This is the first game I’ve been…
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Rockies @ Giants
I’m in San Francisco right now. I went to my (probably) last baseball game of the year, Rockies versus Giants. This was both a really great game, and a bit of a bummer, especially since the Rockies lost, and it really summarizes the so-so year the team had. Okay, so I walk to the stadium,…
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Brewers @ Dodgers
This weekend, my sister-in-law was here from Wisconsin, and we all hung out and saw LA and saw Hollywood. And then on Saturday, we went to Chavez Landfill and saw ten innings of Mannywood. Here’s the bulleted list: Aside from the Rockies, the Brewers are one of my favorite teams, and although you miss a…
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Mariners @ Angels
I headed on down to Anaheim to see the Angels play the Mariners last night. Here’s the report: I bought these tickets mostly to see two teams I’d never seen, in a stadium I’d never seen. I had almost no vested interest in either team, except maybe a minor interest in the Mariners, because I…