Take Me Out . . .
Aug. 18th, 2010 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyNPulsifer and I celebrated Greinke Day at the ballpark tonight. I really can't explain how good going to a ballgame makes me feel. No matter what kind of day I have had, when I get to the stadium, somehow things are just better. Especially at Kauffman Stadium, one of the best in the country, and only better after the renovations. The rest of the world just fades away, and there is the beauty of the game.
Which is not to say one is not unaware of the world; NPulsifer and I had a continuing conversation about the KC in 2016 WorldCon bid and my role in it (flyers! banners! a zine!), but it was all fit in around the game. It's very peaceful, yet energiziing. Wish I could afford to get season tickets.
And the game was a very good one. Greinke went six innings, allowing only one run. Yuniesky Betancourt (the World's Worst Shortstop™*) and Wilson Betamit hit solo homers, and Joakim "The Mexicutioner" Soria came on in the ninth to close it out. 2-1, Royals.
* This is a proven true fact by a variety of metrics, though he does have the bizarre ability to make seemingly impossible plays, followed by botching the most elementary of plays. I finally realized what it is: he's th Sundance Kid of shortstops. Remember the scene in the film, where Butch and Sundance are trying to get hired as bodyguards, and Sundance can't shoot a target rock to save his life? Then he asks "Can I move?" and proceeds to dive, roll and shoot, blasting the crap out of the rock. Same with Yuni: the leaps, lunges and dives he can do. Bend over and glove a bouncer right to him? Not so much. Will be so glad when he is done after this year.
Which is not to say one is not unaware of the world; NPulsifer and I had a continuing conversation about the KC in 2016 WorldCon bid and my role in it (flyers! banners! a zine!), but it was all fit in around the game. It's very peaceful, yet energiziing. Wish I could afford to get season tickets.
And the game was a very good one. Greinke went six innings, allowing only one run. Yuniesky Betancourt (the World's Worst Shortstop™*) and Wilson Betamit hit solo homers, and Joakim "The Mexicutioner" Soria came on in the ninth to close it out. 2-1, Royals.
* This is a proven true fact by a variety of metrics, though he does have the bizarre ability to make seemingly impossible plays, followed by botching the most elementary of plays. I finally realized what it is: he's th Sundance Kid of shortstops. Remember the scene in the film, where Butch and Sundance are trying to get hired as bodyguards, and Sundance can't shoot a target rock to save his life? Then he asks "Can I move?" and proceeds to dive, roll and shoot, blasting the crap out of the rock. Same with Yuni: the leaps, lunges and dives he can do. Bend over and glove a bouncer right to him? Not so much. Will be so glad when he is done after this year.