Baseball!
Ahem...First place, bitches!
Last night's game was great, with a few exceptions.
1) It took us THREE HOURS to get to Baltimore (thus missing the ENTIRE first inning) and we left work an hour early. Yep, that's right, 180 minutes to drive 48.5 miles. Can we bring this up as Exhibit A the next time Peter Angelos starts complaining on how people in DC should only come to O's games? Until he builds me a dedicated freeway that will insure me being able to see the first pitch, he can suck it.
2) I stood in line to get food for an inning and a half only to get some chicken tenders and cold french fries. And by the time I got up there, they had no hot dogs ready. It's like the food services people were shocked people wanted to order food to eat. Jeezy Creezy.
3) They only sold beer, CrackerJacks and cotton candy in the stands. Again, no dogs. No ice cream. No nothin'. If I didn't know better, I would think they are trying to promote alcoholism.
But enough complaining. The game last night at Camden Fenway Yards at Oriole Red Sox Park was alot of fun. I would estimate the Sox fans to O's fans ratio where we were sitting (left field stands) was about 80/20 in favor of the good guys. We got a very loud "Let's Go Red Sox" chant going every inning. The Sox fans were rowdy and funny too. The guy behind me kept yelling "Shut up, you look up to Washington DC!" everytime O's fans got a little to vocal. Some people behind us were saying it was cheaper for them to fly down to Baltimore from Boston and go to this game than it was to scalp tickets to Fenway. There were thousands of WORLD CHAMPS shirts in the crowd. It was a good night to fly your colors. I took some photos, the best of which are here.
The game itself was great. Matt Clement got 'er done, just like I said he would. Can't wait to go back on July 8th! That's a Friday night game BTW, but we have summer hours then so I'll start heading up 295 at 1 PM with hopes of seeing the first pitch.
Oasis quotes. [via Ultragrrrl]
Airtoons [via The DCeiver]
NBA Playoffs start tomorrow. The C's play the Pacers at 8 PM. The esteemed Bob Cook and myself are trying to fashion some sort of wager on said series, which will be grand 'cause we're so gonna beat that ass. Who's gonna win the whole thing? The Sports Guy weighs in and notes the Reggie Miller is shooting under .400 for the last month.
Any MT savvy people out there want to walk me through hooking up my flickr account to my blog? Cheers.
I'm completely with you on how long it takes to get to Orioles games. I grew up in Maryland as a fan of the team and have been to tons of games but, I've stopped going to as many games since moving to Arlington because I can never get there in under two hours.
I went to a game last season and left at 5pm (obviously a bad time to head out on the roads, but it's hard to get everyone in a group out of work early) and we weren't there for the 7pm start. It was probably a two and half hour trip from the time we left Arlington until the time we were in our seats. That's just too long of a trip and too frustrating a drive in stop-and-go traffic for me to do.
Pretty much the only way I go to O's games now is if they are on a weekend or if I can leave by 3 or 4pm to avoid rush hour. That's why I'm so glad to see the Nationals in D.C. I'll still watch the O's and will get to a couple games each year (a couple games is all I've been getting to the last few years because of traffic, so it's not like the Nats are causing me to support the O's any less) but now I have the option, as a baseball fan, of seeing games any time I want. So far this season, I've found myself checking box scores for both the O's and the Nationals.
Listen Kyle, Sports Guy and all you Boston bitches -- you are powerless to stop the force of Reggie. He shot 39.7% in April? Some seasons, Allen Iverson hasn't reached that number, and he's a frickin' scoring champ! And it's not how many you hit, but when you hit them. Not that this group of Celtics would know that.
And who are you going to have guarding Jermaine O'Neal? Mark Blount? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! And guess what? LARRY BIRD HATES YOU! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
If the Pacers have proven anything, it's that they've got a lot more heart, more than any team with Antoine Walker can have. Pacers in six, bitches!
/"Bitches" is used frequently because that was Reggie Miller's preferred term for opponents in his 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature nominee, "I Love Being the Enemy."
//Seriously, this series will hinge on which defensive mismatch will hurt most: Stephen Jackson or Miller on Paul Pierce, or whatever stiff the Celts send out against O'Neal.