MLB Opening Day 2007 (condensed version)
-I took the day off from work and went to the gym in the morning. ESPN was all atwitter with opening day excitement, but much to my dismay, here are the feature stories I got to watch while running on the treadmill:
1. Yankees
2. Barry Bonds
3. Red Sox
4. Yankees
This was immediately followed by a Yankees game.
I’m hoping that at some point, ESPN will crawl out from up the Yankees’ ass.
-I spent an hour trying to get MLB.TV to work on my Mac. I thought about making a voodoo doll of everybody related to the DirecTV bullshit that prevents me from watching out-of-market games on cable, but already was running late.
-It’s probably for the best that I didn’t get to watch the White Sox game yesterday, because my mom could’ve done a better job pitching than Jose Contreras.
-I again failed to find comfortable shoes to wear to sporting events, although I did not discover this until halfway to Coors Field.
-The Rockies suck. The good thing is that they lost the game because of crappy relief pitching. Also, during the game, I heard someone in the stands say “Jose Mesa” — although I have no idea what he said about Jose Mesa, that’s the shit right there.
-The Rockies suck, and Clint Hurdle had his contract extended — through 2009. This convinces me that the Rockies, as an organization, care more about Jesus than they care about winning. That’s some mad crazy bullshit.
-To recap: ESPN only cares about the Yankees, Barry Bonds, and the Red Sox. The White Sox got pounded. The Rockies are set to languish in their love of the lord and mediocrity for a couple more years. My feet really, really hurt. MLB.TV doesn’t like Macs. The perfect end to the perfect day of baseball suck occurred when we were out for pizza and beer after the game. I noticed a guy wearing a Cleveland Indians shirt — the team that just killed my Sox. But it gets even better — when he went outside for a smoke, I realized that he was actually wearing an Omar Vizquel jersey. Omar Vizquel. I wanted to go outside and throw my ranch dressing container at him, but Ben talked me out of it. I’m pretty sure that an Omar Vizquel fan would find it incredibly amusing if a Jose Mesa fan threw a relatively harmless object at him outside a bar, but I suppose I could be wrong — and the way this day was going, there was no sense risking it.
On a positive note, it took a while and I got mad and swore and considered throwing the computer out the window, but I finally got MLB.TV working on the Mac (I downloaded the most recent free version of Flip4Mac WMV player — screw what they say about Windows Media Player for Macs — that didn’t work). I watched one good highlight from yesterday’s game and got to hear Hawk Harrelson yell “You can put it on the board YES!!!”
Oh, baseball. You kind of suck, but I really love you.
