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This was a very strange baseball game
Their spikes seemed to be very, very slippery, and for some reason they kept their bats on the ice and swung at a very flat ball all the time, and they got in trouble for lifting them up. Also the catcher was wearing a lot more padding than usual, and people kept piling up on him. Very odd.
No, so really, today I went to the Flyers-Islanders game with Ken, one of my baseball friends who actually lives in New York and blogs about the Islanders, but who claims he loves baseball much more than hockey. Ken got to town around 3:30, and we went to Jim's for a cheesesteak since he'd never been there before, and then made our way across South Philly down to the Wachovia Center, which is much nicer and cleaner than the Spectrum, except the floor is just as sticky.
On the way down we'd seen two other guys in Islanders jerseys, and Ken said the Flyers would win 6-1 tonight, and I said "no way! The Islanders are gonna win 4-2! Just watch!"
Islanders got up 2-1 in the first period, but the Flyers got up 3-2 in the second period and both teams scored goals in the third period to make it 4-3 Flyers. I wasn't too far off though.
They totally didn't check what was in my bag. I'd love to go back sometime and bring my big camera and experiment with a new sport... maybe.
I'm really, really tired.
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In baseball, actually, TV coverage is good because there's less action, BUT there are a lot of things going on where the baseball is not, that you will NEVER see on TV. Like in Japan there's this one shortstop, Ibata, who's simply brilliant -- on TV you'll see when the ball is grounded to him and he makes what looks like an easy play, but what you don't see is 4 seconds earlier when he catches the sign for the pitch, looks at the batter, looks at the pitcher, and takes four steps to the left before the ball even is thrown, to make that perfect play.