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more about the week, mostly baseball
Well, I finally achieved the thing that will make me give up on Puzzle Pirates once and for all. Or will it?
Tuesday Jason and I went to Lee's Hoagie House for lunch. It was great. Walked around downtown for the afternoon. Took the subway to Citizens Bank Park, the new home of the Phillies. It's a really k-rad stadium... it's in the same sort of design as Safeco, so you look at the Philly Skyline and all. They have this "Ashburn Alley" thing where there's a Phillies Hall of Fame thingy, and a bunch of carnival games, and Greg Luzinski's got a BBQ stand, and there's a Geno's and whatnot. There are also bunches of Phillies stores around the stadium, and tons of stuff in general.
The game itself was great... Vicente Padilla was pitching for the Phillies (He pitched the Phillies game I went to last year oddly enough). Alvarez was pitching for the Dodgers... here's the irony -- I really wanted to see one of the Japanese starting pitchers. Of the three-game series, Nomo was pitching Wednedsay and Ishii was pitching Thursday. I picked the only one that didn't have a Japanese starting pitcher. DOH!
There were 8 home runs hit in the game. 5 of them were hit by Phillies. 3 of those were hit back-to-back-to-back in the fourth inning - Bobby Abreu, Pat Burrell, and Jim Thome hit them. The funny part is, they illuminate the liberty bell thingy over the CBP logo after a homerun and have blinkey lights. Well, I tried to take a movie of it with my camera after Abreu's home run, but failed... so I said they needed to hit another home run. A minute later, Pat Burrell launches one. Still didn't quite get it. Laughed that they needed another... and then BLAM, Thome hits one. How cool :)
There was a rain delay for about half an hour... the stadium is not exactly ideally structured for rain, no good hiding places in the upper decks. But, eh. They showed the end of the Flyers game on the big screen, and then they also showed the end of the Diamondbacks game from that evening, saying Randy Johnson had just pitched a perfect game. Neat.
So anyway, the Phillies swept the Dodgers for the rest of the week and are NOW IN FIRST PLACE WOOOOOO. I just wanted to say that. Hee.
On Wednesday I came back to Seattle. It was largely uneventful except that the flight seemed inordinately long, and when we landed it turned out some other plane was still on the runway so it had to take off again and re-land 5 mins later. Was really kinda scary. I finished reading The Meaning of Ichiro, which really was a fantastic book, I enjoyed it greatly. (It's basically about Ichiro, Matsui, and the drive for Japanese players to play in America, and also some stuff about Americans playing and managing in Japan.) I read the Phillies Magazine and then went on to start reading Taking In A Game, which is interesting but I am not plowing through it quite as voraciously as I did the other book. I'm not sure Joseph Reaves's writing style is as entertaining to me, plus the details about all the extraneous stuff leading up to the real stuff kinda gets to me after a while.
Took the bus home. It took an hour and a half or so. I joined Shuranthae for his 24-hour pillage on PP, and DJ stopped by for a bit too, and I forget what else.
Today I got up and went to Best Buy to look at laptops (they have lousy selection and price, for the record), and met up with Edgars, since I'd caught him in PP and he asked what I was up to and I asked him out to the Mariners game. Hee. So we went to Northgate and took the bus down to the game, getting there mega-early, with enough time to buy BBQ food for dinner and get a scorecard and get to the seats and be done with everything before the game started. It was a pretty dull game for the first 4 innings, scoreless, routine hits and outs and whatnot, until the bottom of the fifth when BLAM! the Mariners blew the inning wide open, starting with three singles, then the pitcher walked in a run, and so on... it was crazy, they got 6 runs in one inning. I ran out of space on the scorecard because 11 people came up to bat. It was awesome. So yeah. Mariners went on to win 11-0, which was nice. Edgars has the idea that basically, he changes the luck of the team (so when he goes to their games when they're winning, they'll lose, and vice versa). So, yeah. We took the bus back to Northgate after and I think that's a really good deal!
I did laundry and played PP and worked on paying bills and whatnot. In PP I avoided blockades and achieved my Full Ultimate Stat-Whore status. Whee. Spent a while hanging out with Shuranthae again, and got my OCL prize stuff, so now I legitimately have a monkey! I need to come up with a name...
Tuesday Jason and I went to Lee's Hoagie House for lunch. It was great. Walked around downtown for the afternoon. Took the subway to Citizens Bank Park, the new home of the Phillies. It's a really k-rad stadium... it's in the same sort of design as Safeco, so you look at the Philly Skyline and all. They have this "Ashburn Alley" thing where there's a Phillies Hall of Fame thingy, and a bunch of carnival games, and Greg Luzinski's got a BBQ stand, and there's a Geno's and whatnot. There are also bunches of Phillies stores around the stadium, and tons of stuff in general.
The game itself was great... Vicente Padilla was pitching for the Phillies (He pitched the Phillies game I went to last year oddly enough). Alvarez was pitching for the Dodgers... here's the irony -- I really wanted to see one of the Japanese starting pitchers. Of the three-game series, Nomo was pitching Wednedsay and Ishii was pitching Thursday. I picked the only one that didn't have a Japanese starting pitcher. DOH!
There were 8 home runs hit in the game. 5 of them were hit by Phillies. 3 of those were hit back-to-back-to-back in the fourth inning - Bobby Abreu, Pat Burrell, and Jim Thome hit them. The funny part is, they illuminate the liberty bell thingy over the CBP logo after a homerun and have blinkey lights. Well, I tried to take a movie of it with my camera after Abreu's home run, but failed... so I said they needed to hit another home run. A minute later, Pat Burrell launches one. Still didn't quite get it. Laughed that they needed another... and then BLAM, Thome hits one. How cool :)
There was a rain delay for about half an hour... the stadium is not exactly ideally structured for rain, no good hiding places in the upper decks. But, eh. They showed the end of the Flyers game on the big screen, and then they also showed the end of the Diamondbacks game from that evening, saying Randy Johnson had just pitched a perfect game. Neat.
So anyway, the Phillies swept the Dodgers for the rest of the week and are NOW IN FIRST PLACE WOOOOOO. I just wanted to say that. Hee.
On Wednesday I came back to Seattle. It was largely uneventful except that the flight seemed inordinately long, and when we landed it turned out some other plane was still on the runway so it had to take off again and re-land 5 mins later. Was really kinda scary. I finished reading The Meaning of Ichiro, which really was a fantastic book, I enjoyed it greatly. (It's basically about Ichiro, Matsui, and the drive for Japanese players to play in America, and also some stuff about Americans playing and managing in Japan.) I read the Phillies Magazine and then went on to start reading Taking In A Game, which is interesting but I am not plowing through it quite as voraciously as I did the other book. I'm not sure Joseph Reaves's writing style is as entertaining to me, plus the details about all the extraneous stuff leading up to the real stuff kinda gets to me after a while.
Took the bus home. It took an hour and a half or so. I joined Shuranthae for his 24-hour pillage on PP, and DJ stopped by for a bit too, and I forget what else.
Today I got up and went to Best Buy to look at laptops (they have lousy selection and price, for the record), and met up with Edgars, since I'd caught him in PP and he asked what I was up to and I asked him out to the Mariners game. Hee. So we went to Northgate and took the bus down to the game, getting there mega-early, with enough time to buy BBQ food for dinner and get a scorecard and get to the seats and be done with everything before the game started. It was a pretty dull game for the first 4 innings, scoreless, routine hits and outs and whatnot, until the bottom of the fifth when BLAM! the Mariners blew the inning wide open, starting with three singles, then the pitcher walked in a run, and so on... it was crazy, they got 6 runs in one inning. I ran out of space on the scorecard because 11 people came up to bat. It was awesome. So yeah. Mariners went on to win 11-0, which was nice. Edgars has the idea that basically, he changes the luck of the team (so when he goes to their games when they're winning, they'll lose, and vice versa). So, yeah. We took the bus back to Northgate after and I think that's a really good deal!
I did laundry and played PP and worked on paying bills and whatnot. In PP I avoided blockades and achieved my Full Ultimate Stat-Whore status. Whee. Spent a while hanging out with Shuranthae again, and got my OCL prize stuff, so now I legitimately have a monkey! I need to come up with a name...
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Maybe I'll have to bug you about drinking. I've decided I've been hovering at Legendary/Ultimate for long enough in some stats that it's time to go for full ultimate to. I know I can do it.
Except maybe drinking.
I did get full ultimate carp lastnight, and after a bad carp session, too... hopefully I don't lose it right away again...