Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 20:02:12 EDT
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I don't typically watch the World Series unless the Braves are playing. However, I find myself watching it this year and I'm enjoying it. I don't really care about either team so I don't get frustrated while watching the games; but, I do find myself pulling for the Cardinals over the Tigers. I thought the Cardinals would get destroyed by the Tigers, but they are making things quite interesting so far. They dominated game one and it looks like they are going to win game three. I imagine the series will go the full seven games. The pitching has been excellent. There have been some really good defensive plays, but both teams have already made more errors than befit teams playing in the World Series. Overall, a good series ... (view rest)
Monday, 01 May 2006, 19:30:39 EDT
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I suppose it was because the semester was so stressful, but it is almost surreal that my last classes of the semester were today. Now I have to complete a take home final and finish preparing for one on Thursday. I have a review sheet with seventeen, tough, questions; the final will be comprised of about eight of these questions. Just a couple more days...
Yesterday, my brother and I went to the Braves game. He wanted to see a game before he heads back to Montana (tomorrow). There was a threat of rain but it held off. It was unseasonably cold and overcast, but the sun broke through the clouds enough to keep it comfortable when not sitting under an overhang. We had awesome seats, too. About two weeks ago I found out that one of my class mates works at a bar at Turner Field. Last Monday I asked him about the price of drinks at the place where he works and what the name of it is. Turns out, he bar tends at the 755 Club. To my surprise he said he would bring me a couple passes to the club. I am glad he did (thank you again Stephen); the club is really nice and the seats outside were open (probably because of the weather). So, we got to sit right beside the left field foul pole for most of the game. Before the seventh inning we decided to go check out the seats for which Brad had purchased tickets. They were great too; they were down close to the field, over the Braves dugout. The only downside to those seats was having to look over people to see the game. I had a great time at the game and got a bit of sun. Thanks for the ticket, Brad :)
Unlike last year, I was smart enough to take my camera. I took a lot lot of pictures. This was the second weekend in a row where I have actually used my camera. I hadn't been using it for a while because I feel silly when I am taking pictures. But I do find it nice to be able to take them. After looking at my pictures from these past two weekends, I realized just how crappy my camera really is. I would like to get a Nikon D50, but they are really expensive. I like to think that if I had a good camera, like that D50, then I would be more eager to learn how to take good photographs and not be so anxious while taking them. Plus, even my crappy pictures would be a lot better than they are now. For example, I managed to take a picture of Jeff Francoeur making the winning, diving, catch yesterday, but the picture doesn't have the effect that it should because my camera can't take pictures that far away.
While we were in Atlanta I made a decision about this summer. I planning to take at least a couple days off for little vacations up to Atlanta. I think on one of them I will go up and check out the capital building and the surrounding area. Maybe go to the zoo on another. Just something to get out of Stockbridge/Morrow and relax. They should be cheap one day vacations. Park at the closest MARTA station, take the train into town, and then walk to the rest of my destinations. Should be fun and make for good pictures; though, not too good considering my horrible camera.
Speaking of pictures, I decided to go with ... (view rest)
Monday, 17 April 2006, 19:51:21 EDT
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"People called it Ozzie Ball. It's not Ozzie Ball. It's fucking baseball." — Ozzie Guillen in an interview for Playboy (May 2006).
The interviewer was questioning Ozzie about the way the White Sox played ball, and won, last year (2005). They were the first team to lead their league from opening day to closing day (of the season) since the 1927 Yankees, the only other team to have done it, did it. That is seventy-eight years, by the way. Why were they able to do this amazing feat? Because they played "fucking baseball." I absolutely love this quote. It seems to me that people are more worried about whether or not the players are going to blast homeruns all night instead of play baseball. Baseball isn't about the homeruns. Oh, they are awesome. Who doesn't love a homerun? But they aren't the whole game. A well timed, and executed, bunt is infinitely more important than a single homerun nine times out of ten. Fundamental baseball is beautiful when it is actually played. A team playing good fundamental baseball will make a homerun reliant team look silly.
That's what my favorite team does year after year. They play good baseball and win. They are the most consistent, constantly different, team in the history of all sports. The Atlanta Braves play baseball. That is why I get sick when I hear people like guys on Baseball Tonight on ESPN talk about the Braves. They are infatuated with the homerun, not baseball. For example, I was eating dinner at Smokey Bones last night (everything else was closed) and so I decided to listen to the baseball highlights over their table speaker. That was a mistake. They, of course, started a segment where they showed nothing but homeruns from the day and said little comments about them. When they showed Andruw Jones' homerun the mo ... (view rest)
Sunday, 10 April 2005, 19:47:12 EDT
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Here is one of those rare posts where I won't be talking about anything remotely thought provoking or technically interesting. I went to the Braves vs Mets game today with my brother and father. It is only the second time I have been to Turner Field. When I ordered the tickets the other night I thought that I was ordering tickets which would be on the second deck, i.e. off the ground; it seems that I ordered tickets which were under second deck. Our seats were simply awesome; I wish I would have taken my camera but I didn't think we would be so close. One foul ball went over my head and landed a couple rows back — I was almost able to catch another. I have never sat in such a seat to my memory. Evidently, my father and me used to move down to the seats behind homeplate after a couple innings when the Braves were not quite the team that they are now but I don't remember that; I just remember being at the games having the time of my life. Today was reminicent of those days. The game may have been lost, in part because of some poor managerial decisions, but I still had an aweso ... (view rest)
Sunday, 25 April 2004, 23:01:55 EDT
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I like baseball. Specifically, I like the Atlanta Braves. As often as possible I am watching or listening to the games. I think the announcers that the Braves employ are superb and they actually know something about baseball so their chatter is usually interesting. However, there is a problem. The Braves are under contract with ESPN and Fox Sports to air a certain number of games on their stations per season. This annoys me to no end. The announcers on these two stations are the lamest most annoying people I have ever had the displeasure to listen to. ESPN is especially annoying. They constantly put the game in a small window and show random stuff like people in the crowd or the damn television control room (and they don't always show the game in a small window). They also incesently try to sell just about everything imaginable; they love trying to sell HDTV stuff. No, I can' ... (view rest)
Monday, 12 April 2004, 14:11:50 EDT
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This past weekend was pretty good. Thursday I went out to my grandparent's and slept there so that I could wake up Friday and work on my car. My grandfather and I managed to get it in a drivable state so I am no longer driving my grandmother's car. I still need to get the back struts installed correctly but they are not going to fall out any time soon. Jay and I are going to work on that this coming weekend I believe.
Friday evening I went over to an acquaintance's apartment with a friend and had a few drinks. Aside from the Braves loosing a very close game in the fifteenth inning it was a fun night. Just about everyone there was already smashed when we walked in the door. For some reason they all decided that they needed to get me smashed as well. They weren't very successful, having all passed out before I could open an eighth Killian's, so I just got a bit tipsy. After everyone passed out me, Lulu, and some other girl (I don't know how to spell her name) went over to Steak N Shake. We just happened to get the new guy who couldn't even take orders correctly much less get them to the table. After getting my hamburger wrong he came back with a double fixed the way I asked for the single and just completely forgot about my fries. I didn't really care since I got my hamburger but Lulu decided that I had to have my fries as well so she told him about it. Dude brought me the largest plate of fries I have ever seen to make amends for his mistake. Not only could I not finish the burger but I couldn't even finish a quarter of the plate of fries. I was drunk not malnurished.
For some reason Saturday I felt like crap. I don't know why though; I didn't drink too much - just enough to loosen me up. That didn't stop me from shipping my phone back to Virgin Mobile for a refund. I finally just gave up on them and told them to give me my money back. They accepted it a lot easier than I thought they would and just told me to ship the phone with my receipt to ... (view rest)
Tuesday, 16 December 2003, 23:36:24 EDT
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The Braves are going to be a totally different team next year. Evidently, Gary Sheffield will become a Yankee tomorrow. This, combined with the ... (view rest)
Sunday, 05 October 2003, 23:36:14 EDT
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Well they blew it again. I don't understand how they could have done so poorly. It isn't like the didn't face the same pitcher less than a week ago. Whatever, the season is over for me. Let the Red Sox and the Marlins duke it out ... (view rest)
Saturday, 04 October 2003, 22:58:40 EDT
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The Braves and the Cubs are definitely taking things down to the wire - literally. The Braves finally came around today and played baseball. The whole series they have been up against some damn good pitching but they have not been playing the baseball they played all season. They were making the Cubs fight but they were not showing them how to hit. Tomorrow is going to be a really tough game; Wood will be back on the mound for the Cubs and Hammond, who pitched two nights ago, will be tossing for the Braves. Wood is just too damn good.
Braves 2 - Cubs 2
I bought the Willow special edition DVD today. ... (view rest)
Friday, 03 October 2003, 23:24:56 EDT
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Things are looking pretty grim for the Braves' post-season. If they don't win tomorrow it is over. They lost tonight three to one. I blame it on the cold and the extremely wet infield. They were falling and sliding all over the place. Maddux pitched a helluva game but the rest of the defense just was not there.
Prior pitched a damn good game. That twenty-three year old did an amazing job i ... (view rest)
Wednesday, 01 October 2003, 23:27:17 EDT
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The series between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs is turning into a real nail biter. The Cubs are putting up a ferocious fight. Read here for the details ab ... (view rest)
Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 23:53:19 EDT
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I just about had an anurism tonight. Here is why: ... (view rest)