It's Baseball Season!
Apr. 23rd, 2024 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperIt's actually been baseball season for a few weeks now. I just haven't had the chance to see a game in person yet. I missed Opening Day due to my colonoscopy and it was frankly too miserable out for me to want to see the rest of the Rockies series. I missed the Dodgers series, because I wanted to see the total eclipse of the sun, which was a much better choice. And then I missed the Marlins series, because the weather on Thursday was miserable, I couldn't find anyone to go with me at that point, and after I listed the tickets the game was postponed and moved to Saturday night where the tickets immediately sold, being worth much more than I had listed them for.
(This is a flaw in the ticket listing system that ought to be fixed. When a game is canceled and rescheduled, the listings should be frozen for a few hours to give the people who listed for them a chance to adjust the prices or decide to delist the tickets. But that doesn't happen.)
Anyway, that brings us to the first game of the Astros series today, which I was able to get to. And it was *much* less cold than I'd anticipated, because there's a front coming through and the temperature was supposed to fall from 60 degrees to the upper 30s tonight. The front hadn't arrived by the time the game ended, which made me very happy, but I took my heavy coat anyway. :)
The Cubs won handily, scoring five in the first inning. Things were never particularly close after that.
And I got to go to the game with one of my old co-workers who has transferred to a different department, which gave us a chance to catch up on things.
So all good.
Other than the Cardinals game, where they lost 14-1. Eep! But I was able to stop checking the score after discovering that they'd given up 10 unanswered runs to fall behind 10-1. I was *definitely* able to stop checking the score...
(This is a flaw in the ticket listing system that ought to be fixed. When a game is canceled and rescheduled, the listings should be frozen for a few hours to give the people who listed for them a chance to adjust the prices or decide to delist the tickets. But that doesn't happen.)
Anyway, that brings us to the first game of the Astros series today, which I was able to get to. And it was *much* less cold than I'd anticipated, because there's a front coming through and the temperature was supposed to fall from 60 degrees to the upper 30s tonight. The front hadn't arrived by the time the game ended, which made me very happy, but I took my heavy coat anyway. :)
The Cubs won handily, scoring five in the first inning. Things were never particularly close after that.
And I got to go to the game with one of my old co-workers who has transferred to a different department, which gave us a chance to catch up on things.
So all good.
Other than the Cardinals game, where they lost 14-1. Eep! But I was able to stop checking the score after discovering that they'd given up 10 unanswered runs to fall behind 10-1. I was *definitely* able to stop checking the score...