opening day! (or night)
Today is Palm Sunday, of course, and we went to church and all that (one note: I expected, being in California at all, that we'd get palms off an actual tree, but no: they were the exact same you see in our Boston churches). But that was ages ago, and now there's something else we're focusing on, that makes the day notable. And that something, of course, is baseball. I saw some children playing a league game last week or something (this being tropical LA they start early, I guess), but now we get the real thing; and thanks to happy coincidence the first game (not counting that Yanks-Devil Rays nonsense in Japan), ESPN's 'opening night,' is Boston-Baltimore.
However, while watching the game on ESPN is all well and good, folks can do that anywhere in the country. Folks who don't care about the Sox, or even folks who don't care about baseball! I need to do better than that. Thankfully, MLB.com is there to help me out: for a low low fee of only $14.95 they let me listen to all the games I care to via interent radio, straight from the originating broadcast. I figure I might listen to games from a couple other cities throughout the course of the summer, but you know the real reason I signed up for this deal: baseball isn't baseball without Joe and Jerry on WEEI. So here I sit watching the game with the sound turned off, and listening to the call on the radio, just like I was home in Boston. The only problem is, something in the internet is slowing things down, so the radio here is about 40 seconds behind the tv. Ah well. I'm reading a book too, so it doesn't really matter.
And for those who think I'm nothing but indolent, I worked today too. And there was some excitement at the store to report too, with a big dumpster fire in the alley next door and all kinds of terrible smoke blowing up the street and into the store. Also another famous personage came in to buy clothes, but sadly I wasn't there at the time. Leah was though, and she'll write about it later. She'd better, anyways!!