10-31-17
I need to revisit Aggie
football on Saturday (10-28-17).
My co-worker, Mike, was there and brought back a story. His girlfriend’s son had expressed some
interest in going earlier in the week, but hadn’t said anything by
Saturday. As Laiza had just put a batch
of brownies in the oven and they were about to settle in to watch the World
Series, the boy came in and said him and his friends wanted to go to the
football game. Unpleasantness ensued,
but off to the game they went.
Once there, they found out that the flyers being distributed
around town were not free tickets, but rather coupons for $10 tickets. After some more chaos because a couple of the
kids lost theirs, it was $50 for them to all get in. Not a bad price for five people, but not
free. Our place of business had offered
free tickets to a couple of games earlier in the season. I mentioned on Friday to Mike that the final
home game was going to have $5 tickets, so I can understand the irritation over
having to pay. They did not see any farm
animals or displays from the AG day event at the stadium. They might have gotten there just before the
game started.
The game went well enough at first with the Aggies keeping
it close or being ahead. However as the
game went on, the temperature began dropping and the wind picked up. Having been there myself, it does get colder
there than the temperature reading would indicate. They were freezing. Meanwhile, the boys had wandered off. After searching around the stadium, Laiza and
Mike found them behind the eastside club section, sliding down the hill
there. Mike thought that looked like fun
and was about to join them, but Laiza started yelling at them to stop and to go
back to their seats. Like real Aggies
fans, they left as soon as the team went down by a couple of scores late and
returned home to watch the end of the baseball game.
I was surprised that Laiza wanted to see the World Series,
since she’s a boxing fan, not a baseball fan. She’s rooting on the
Dodgers. Perhaps that July Fourth trip to see the fireworks there made her a big fan. Mike was worried about watching tonight’s
game with her, since it was a possible closeout game for the Astros. He didn’t want to bear the brunt of her
wrathful disappointment.
Yesterday morning, some ESPN
Radio jerkoffs were mocking the notion that baseball is back as a popular
sport. Take a knee, guys. (On the other hand, that was Joe Buck saying,
“Baseball is back.” Not exactly a
worthwhile source.) One of the hosts was
talking about falling asleep during the game.
They spent much of their time defending Clayton Kershaw, who before the game, the sports media had been claiming
was “the greatest pitcher ever.” Now
they’re calling him a playoff choker, again.
The TV view at Dodger Stadium was not promising for Game 6
between the Dodgers and Astros, with Astros one win away from
the championship. Anywhere else, it
looked like a sure rain storm was coming.
In southern California though, it only resulted in a light misting
halfway through the game. There was
reportedly a section full of Astro fans there.
The announcers speculated that Dodger fans had sold their tickets. Several celebrities and former Dodger greats
were shown in the crowd. Kate Upton was in a box. She was there to cheer on tonight’s Astros’
starter, Justin Verlander. Whew, boy.
Yikes. Justin, however this
series turns out, you are the winner.
While I’d be very busy with month end stuff later, early in
the evening I had time to watch without much distraction. Of course I was out of the room when George Springer got the scoring started
in the third with a solo home run, 1-0 Astros.
A sponsor was giving $20K for hurricane relief for every home run. I don’t think they knew what they were
signing up for. Verlander was looking
good. By the fourth, he had gotten his
seventh strikeout.
In the fifth, the Astros loaded the bases with two
outs. Dave Roberts took out Dodger starter, Rich Hill. The crowd groaned
in disapproval, but the Astros didn’t score.
In the sixth, the Astros got two on, but still didn’t get anyone
across. The Dodgers were now on their
third pitcher. In the bottom, Chris Taylor doubled in a run with two
on, and a Corey Seager sacrifice
gave the Dodgers a 2-1 lead.
For the seventh, Verlander was lifted for a pinch hitter,
while the Dodgers went to their fourth pitcher.
The Astros left two on again, but it was Joc Pederson who added to the Dodger lead in the inning with a home
run, 3-1 Dodgers. At this point, I got
busy with work and actually lost track of what inning was being played. Kenley
Jansen came in as the Dodgers’ fifth and final pitcher. He closed out the game and got the save. 3-1
Dodgers final. The bad news for me
was that the Astros lost. The good news
was that my co-worker wasn’t killed in a domestic disturbance had they
won. Anyone with a prediction for Game 7
clearly hasn’t been watching this series.
There’s no telling what’s going to happen.
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