In case anybody was interested...

[khaosworks]

So, I've followed my first baseball game, albeit over the Internet. The Boston Red Sox lost to the Toronto Blue Jays, 6 runs to 5 in the final game of a series. Blue Jays third baseman Eric Hinske broke the 3-3 tie in the 7th inning with a home run to right field off Tim Wakefield and cinched it with a final home run to the right off relief pitcher Urgeth Urbina at the bottom of the ninth, despite the Sox tying again at the top of that inning with two runs thanks to Trot Nixon's homer .

While I'm disappointed the Sox didn't win, it was quite cool to be able to actually follow a game's play-by-play and understand more than half of what was going on, and the suspense was actually quite palpable at times. It's an experience I wouldn't mind repeating again.

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[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

That's terrible (for the Red Sox) because the Toronto Blue Jays aren't a very strong team. I've seen them in action and they're quite sad.

GOOOOOOO YANKEES!

You think that was fun?

[etherial.livejournal.com]

You think it's fun watching the Sox lose over the internet?

It's so much cooler in Fenway Park.

[(Anonymous)]

So, there was once this orchestra giving an outdoor performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a park. This piece has a long segment in the middle where the bass violins are silent, i.e. they have nothing to play in the score. So during this segment, the double-bassists quietly laid down their instruments and wandered out of the park and to a nearby bar for a drink. As it was a windy day, they tied down their scores with string before they left. They had several drinks before deciding it was time to head back to play in the final movement. However, they were in no condition to perform, and couldn't even untie the string holding down their music sheets. As the final movement was about to begin, two of the players even passed out right on their chairs.

It was then that the alarmed conductor realized the situation...

[(Anonymous)]

...It was the bottom of the Ninth, the score was tied, and the bassists were loaded, with two men out.

*Ba-boom CHSSSH!*