On Baseball

When I started this blog one of the things that I had planned on giving significant time to was the musical/formal aspects to the game of baseball. It intrigues me, because it is one of the few sports that happens entirely in its own time. The clock is simply to measure, not to determine. When the game is won, it is over, whether that is the top of the ninth or the bottom. And so on.

However, due to distractions (even much earlier than YouTube), I have written very little about baseball, and this goes back to when I could go to just about any A's game and sit in very good seats for free. Now that I no longer have my ticket connection, and the A's are looking to move to Fremont, I currently have and will continue to have less and less opportunities to watch the game. Sure, there is San Francisco, a better ballpark, National League, great location, etc., but that is not cheap, and there are only so many times you can tolerate standing in the freebie cage. It is fun to stand in the freebie cage (I did it for the opening day of the first season at the park), but after awhile, you want a ticket, a seat, an overpriced pint of beer, and a bag of peanuts (wasn't that a line from that Persian poet?).

However, I still like the game, and would like to point you to this excellent piece on the steroid nonsense. John is absolutely correct in his portrayal of journalists, by the way.