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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 3, 2004 13:48:58 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with cute. . .although Boone is just too cute. And he knows it. This is not a good thing. But he's maybe the best player on the team (argument to be made for Ichiro, here), so I let it slide. I don't get to see as much of them as I used to (only when they play Oakland or on ESPN - although for an extra $20/month I could get FOXNW on my Digital Cable - but I like that money for other things), so I'm missing out on the cute a lot of the time. If they trade Ben Davis there will be a significant decrease in the overall attractiveness of the team, though. B. Boone is just this side of being a complete egomaniac- he's got a level of self-awareness that makes him more like Jay Buhner than Pete Rose. He and Ichiro are pretty much the best all-around players, with John Olerud, Randy Winn, and Dan Wilson being close behind. Boone and Ichiro have, unfortuntely, a flaw in common; they swing away when they're under pressure. I'd miss Ben terribly, although I rather think that he may be playing in Seattle at the end of the season now that all the bigtime hitting pitchers seem to be signed elsewhere. Julia, wishing for a level of any awareness for myself right now
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Post by Rachael on Apr 3, 2004 17:18:02 GMT -5
I'm going to the game tomorrow in San Francisco - Oakland vs. S.F. in exhibition play. My first ever game in Pac Bell/SBC/Evil Corporate Entity Park. It's kind of a date, actually. Okay, actually it is a date. A semi-blind date (semi- because I've seen pictures) with a friend of my best friend's husband. If we'd gotten our stuff together faster, though, we could have gone to the one today in Oakland for half the price. But that's not appropriate first-date conversation.
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Post by Rachael on Apr 4, 2004 1:10:16 GMT -5
Very grumpy. The folks at mlb.com have changed something about the Gameday Audio system, and I've had issues making it work with either of my computers this week. At work, with OSX 10.3, I just dumped my browser's cache, and performed another set of rituals given to me by the folks at mlb.com customer support, and now it works just fine (at least, it did on Thursday). HOWEVER, at home, on OSX 10.1.5 (lazy me hasn't upgraded the home computer yet), no amount of downloading new updates for IE or Netscape or Real Player would help, the folks at the mlb.com support line aren't all that helpful, and are honestly baffled now, and have booted my problem up to a "supervisor". . .to be dealt with in "a couple of days". Very irritating, and seems entirely likely to be fixed by upgrading the OS, which I can do as soon as I unpack that box at work, but I have this background horror that when I try to access the feed from work, it won't work there, either. I mean, half the time it's crashing the IE browser, and the rest of the time, it just sits there - the player launches, but no audio comes out. I even get the Mariners logo on screen. Sigh. Software.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 4, 2004 9:41:29 GMT -5
Very grumpy. The folks at mlb.com have changed something about the Gameday Audio system, and I've had issues making it work with either of my computers this week. At work, with OSX 10.3, I just dumped my browser's cache, and performed another set of rituals given to me by the folks at mlb.com customer support, and now it works just fine (at least, it did on Thursday). HOWEVER, at home, on OSX 10.1.5 (lazy me hasn't upgraded the home computer yet), no amount of downloading new updates for IE or Netscape or Real Player would help, the folks at the mlb.com support line aren't all that helpful, and are honestly baffled now, and have booted my problem up to a "supervisor". . .to be dealt with in "a couple of days". Very irritating, and seems entirely likely to be fixed by upgrading the OS, which I can do as soon as I unpack that box at work, but I have this background horror that when I try to access the feed from work, it won't work there, either. I mean, half the time it's crashing the IE browser, and the rest of the time, it just sits there - the player launches, but no audio comes out. I even get the Mariners logo on screen. Sigh. Software. (Making prayers and libations of thanks for living in the FSNW coverage area.) Julia, but I still don't like most of News Corps broadcasting decisions right now
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Post by Rachael on Apr 4, 2004 11:40:28 GMT -5
Sigh. Fog. And possibly clouds, although the weather report says not. And chillier than I like for baseball games.
Well. . .got 2.5 hours. Maybe the fog really will burn off. I hope.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 4, 2004 19:49:26 GMT -5
Sigh. Fog. And possibly clouds, although the weather report says not. And chillier than I like for baseball games. Well. . .got 2.5 hours. Maybe the fog really will burn off. I hope. How'd the game go? McLemore just signed with Oakland, darnit, they don't deserve him. Fanfic addictions and baseball don't mix; I was watching the game, sort of, and it was Seattle 2 San Diego 5 and then all of a sudden I got to the end of a longer than expected fic, and it was Seattle 8, San Diego 6 and I have NO Idea how they got there. (sigh) Oh, well, when the regular season starts I mostly watch in my room... Julia, going to have to work on the whole moderation thing, but I'm beginning to thin that's what I gave up for Lent
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Post by Rachael on Apr 4, 2004 20:18:38 GMT -5
How'd the game go? McLemore just signed with Oakland, darnit, they don't deserve him. Fanfic addictions and baseball don't mix; I was watching the game, sort of, and it was Seattle 2 San Diego 5 and then all of a sudden I got to the end of a longer than expected fic, and it was Seattle 8, San Diego 6 and I have NO Idea how they got there. (sigh) Oh, well, when the regular season starts I mostly watch in my room... Julia, going to have to work on the whole moderation thing, but I'm beginning to thin that's what I gave up for Lent Can I just say: a TIE?! That's how the game went. The Giants scored one in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game, and they called it on account of cold and it being exhibition and all. It *was* very cold, but REALLY. It's just not done. So, everyone was miffed, except maybe me, as I had no preference I felt strongly about, although anytime Oakland loses it's of the good. And I learned that first dates with men who don't really love baseball and baseball games are unmixy things. Not that it wasn't fun, but, well - I wanted to be paying more attention to the game than I got to. Nice guy, on paper at least, exactly what I should be looking for. Lots of common interests, goals, views on life, religion, etc. etc. Not unattractive. But not having the immediate chemistry thing, either. There were a couple of moments of chemistry. . .enough to say yes to date #2. . . .
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Post by Dev(Rob) on Apr 4, 2004 21:25:10 GMT -5
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Post by Rachael on Apr 4, 2004 22:39:31 GMT -5
Bosox 3 - 1 down as I type. THE SEASON IS OPEN PROPERLY BABY WEEEEE Must jet, bottom of the 6th starting. Roll on Cubbies - Reds tomorrow! Confused now. . .what have you got against the Red Sox, Dev? 'Cause, well, disliking the Red Sox is incompatible with Yankee-hate, since they're gonna be the only team with a real shot of keeping the Yanks out of the playoffs. . . . Or is there a deap-seated Red Sox/Cubs rivalry, too?
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 4, 2004 22:54:38 GMT -5
Confused now. . .what have you got against the Red Sox, Dev? 'Cause, well, disliking the Red Sox is incompatible with Yankee-hate, since they're gonna be the only team with a real shot of keeping the Yanks out of the playoffs. . . . Or is there a deap-seated Red Sox/Cubs rivalry, too? I think it's the whole "my curse is bigger than yours" thing. Julia, wishing that the stupid local access program hadn't just reminded me that all the big earthquakes happen in spring
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Post by Rachael on Apr 4, 2004 22:58:07 GMT -5
I think it's the whole "my curse is bigger than yours" thing. Julia, wishing that the stupid local access program hadn't just reminded me that all the big earthquakes happen in spring Except the 1989 one. Or are they just talking about the Pacific Northwest? And, actually, February 28th is still winter, yeah? And speaking of, NBC is having a TV movie on May 2nd entitled: "10.5". And, finally, if I have anything to say about it, the Yankees have the biggest curse.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 5, 2004 9:09:15 GMT -5
Except the 1989 one. Or are they just talking about the Pacific Northwest? And, actually, February 28th is still winter, yeah? And speaking of, NBC is having a TV movie on May 2nd entitled: "10.5". And, finally, if I have anything to say about it, the Yankees have the biggest curse. San Juan/North Anerican plate quakes. C'mon, Rachael, you know Western Washington: October 28 might be winter, but Feb 28 is usually spring. It was 74 degrees here on Ash Wednesday two years ago. Julia, no baseball today, and last night it was confirmed that Willie is starting at third until Spezio is better
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Post by Sara on Apr 5, 2004 15:34:43 GMT -5
Seems like one of the Boone brothers is actually an okay guy. From Rick Reilly's piece in the current SI:
On the first day of 2003 spring training, 62-year-old Dayton Daily News sportswriter Hal McCoy stumbled into the Cincinnati Reds' clubhouse, where Aaron Boone sat.
"What's wrong with you?" Boone asked.
McCoy was nearly in tears. Strokes in the optic nerves of both eyes had left him with only a tiny, blurred tunnel of vision. "You're probably seeing me for the last time," whispered McCoy. "I can't see. I can't do this job anymore."
Boone took him by the shoulders and sat him down in his chair. "No good," Boone said. "That's not a good enough excuse. You aren't quitting. You're too good."
You have to understand: A player caring about a writer is like a shark caring about a sardine.
But here was Boone, pulling Hal McCoy through his darkness. Here was Boone, checking on him every day. Here was Boone offering to guide him to teammates' lockers. Here was Boone ... giving him crap. "Hal," Boone would say from his locker, mock-disgusted. "I'm over here."
"I wouldn't be covering the Reds today if it weren't for Aaron Boone," says McCoy, who is back for his 32nd season covering the Reds, the longest one-team tenure of any current writer. "I'd have retired that very day. I wanted to quit five or six more times that spring, but he'd always talk me out of it.... For a ballplayer to care that much about me, man, it lifted me. It carried me."
And when McCoy was inducted into the writers' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame last July, he had the crowd in tears telling the story of how a ballplayer turned out to be the strangest of things to a sportswriter -- a friend.
Hey, Boston, you still hate him?
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Post by Sara on Apr 5, 2004 15:38:46 GMT -5
I also want to note, for the record, that I didn't hate Aaron Boone before I read the article. Not that I was his biggest fan, of course. But I also know winning or losing a series is about a lot more than a single home run, and it seems beyond ridiculous to hate him for A-Rod going to NY. Especially when Steinbrenner's around.
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Post by Rachael on Apr 5, 2004 16:19:52 GMT -5
San Juan/North Anerican plate quakes. C'mon, Rachael, you know Western Washington: October 28 might be winter, but Feb 28 is usually spring. It was 74 degrees here on Ash Wednesday two years ago. Julia, no baseball today, and last night it was confirmed that Willie is starting at third until Spezio is better Okay, yeah. . .Feb. 28 is Spring in Western Washington. . .but then, you don't really believe in "earthquake weather", right? Just coincidence. Sigh. Third base is cursed. I mean, WTF? Back spasms?
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